dasent

"Yeh, Ah knows all that, Mis'r Brewster, but Ah jus 'dasent stay where a female badgers my peace o' mind."

Polly and Eleanor Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900

-- Plaze give my apologys to yoor muther for forgitin to send my respeks to her. also to maryan, whos a dasent woman av she wasnt so fond

Over the Rocky Mountains Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin 1859

I need hardly explain to any American reader that enough said implies the ending of all discussion by the acceptance of the proposition or challenge.] [Footnote 4: Durn't, daren't, dasent, dursent, and don't dast are forms of this variable negative heard in the folk-speech of various parts of the country.

The Hoosier Schoolmaster Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 1871

American reader that _enough said_ implies the ending of all discussion by the acceptance of the proposition or challenge.] [Footnote 4: _Durn't, daren't, dasent, dursent_, and _don't dast_ are forms of this variable negative heard in the folk-speech of various parts of the country.

The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Edward Eggleston 1869