daur
Britishverb
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Her lips he never touched—that I’ll daur to swear.
From Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not by G. H. (George Henry) Edwards
"Wad ye daur to sweir afore a leddy?" she exclaimed, shaking her uplifted hands in pretence of ghasted astonishment.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
Charles Andros, Seigne'r D'Anneville living 1686, marr: to his first wife, Collette, daur: of Jonas le Marchant by whom he had issue onely one daughr: Elizabeth who dyed young.
From A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c. by William Henry Whitmore
Lift up thy rock-crowned forehead, Auld Scotland! and sing aloud to all the nations of the earth, with thy voice of cliffs, and caves, and caverns, "Wha daur meddle wi' me?"
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
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 Robert Ford
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