daur
Britishverb
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“Sacrifice her happiness!” interrupted the old man; “hoo daur ye speak o’ happiness, wha kens nae meanin’ for the word but the vain pleasures o’ this sinfu’ warld!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay
Her lips he never touched—that I’ll daur to swear.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by Edwards, G. H. (George Henry)
At Hawick, where this legendary mimicry of old Border warfare peculiarly flourishes, the boys are accustomed to use the following lines of defiance:— King Covenanter, come out if ye daur venture!
From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert
I'll put daur ahint the door, and do't.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
No' that it maitters muckle, I daur say; but still'—— 'Whae's this ye're on, Nathan?' said Betty, who had entered the room unobserved.
From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing
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