daur
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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He’ll never daur show face in Thrums again.”
From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
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
“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
I like none of your paternosters, and saying of prayers backwards, or drawing lines with chalk round ye, before crying, “Redcowl, redcowl, come if ye daur; Lift the sneck, and draw the bar.”
From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Hardie, Charles Martin
His sermons were gloomy, and so long that he occasionally would startle the congregation by calling out to some culprit, "Sit up there, how daur ye sleep i' the kirk."
From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Somerville, Mary
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