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DURST
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durst past de la dare1 (I, 1).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
I jumped out and came as near running as I durst, with a big silk handkerchief under my hat for coolness' sake and a brace of pistols ready primed for safety.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
My conductor pressed me forward, conjuring me in a whisper “to give no offence, which would be highly resented;” and therefore I durst not so much as stop my nose.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
The craving was all the stronger because I durst not speak openly about it, for the least hint of it brought the tears into my mother’s eyes.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“If I durst,” said the captain, “I'd stop and pick off another man.”
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
At which times they would approach as near as they durst, and imitate my actions after the manner of monkeys, but ever with great signs of hatred; as a tame jackdaw with cap and stockings is always persecuted by the wild ones, when he happens to be got among them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarter-deck, and anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them openly.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
I therefore often begged his honour to let me go among the herds of Yahoos in the neighbourhood; to which he always very graciously consented, being perfectly convinced that the hatred I bore these brutes would never suffer me to be corrupted by them; and his honour ordered one of his servants, a strong sorrel nag, very honest and good-natured, to be my guard; without whose protection I durst not undertake such adventures.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
One glance, however, was sufficient; and it was only one glance that I durst take from that unsteady skiff.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
However, I once caught a young male of three years old, and endeavoured, by all marks of tenderness, to make it quiet; but the little imp fell a squalling, and scratching, and biting with such violence, that I was forced to let it go; and it was high time, for a whole troop of old ones came about us at the noise, but finding the cub was safe (for away it ran), and my sorrel nag being by, they durst not venture near us.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
But towards the end of the bombardment, though still I durst not venture in the direction of the stockade, where the balls fell oftenest, I had begun, in a manner, to pluck up my heart again, and after a long detour to the east, crept down among the shore-side trees.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
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