Word: daring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other features. There was a plaintive dulcet tone to her voice that thrilled the heart of every hearer, as completely as - as - as the squeaking of bad chalk does in a recitation-room. Her poem, "On the Beauty of Youth," was too perfect a production for us to dare to mar it by quotations. The author breathed forth her inspiration with all the calm resignation of some bereaved, unappreciated, neglected world-wanderer, who looked back with tears in her eyes to the days of her youth. Many times her words were scarcely audible through the sobs of her listeners...
...pedler nuisance is forcibly presented to our minds by the Athenaeum: "We have no 'Trigs' or second-hand books of any kind to sell; no old clothes, hats, caps, toothpicks, or slippers. We will not buy oranges, apples, or peanuts, if you give them away. Don't dare to stop at our door unless you are a member of the Faculty or town constable...
...Look here, what a queer; fellow you are! Why, public opinion says so." And off goes Snobling with supreme contempt for all who dare to disobey the dictates of public opinion...
...what could ever dare to hurt thee, sweet...
...discouraged way," "I thought you said that I did a perfect paper." "So I did," said the scientist, in an angry voice; " I never give a higher mark than eighty-six." I wanted to ask him if 86 = 100 with the Faculty in reckoning up averages, but did not dare to. I afterwards learned that 86 = 86 in their computations; so I fail to see the justice of that mark...