1798, The Heir of Montague. Chapter V, My mi?tre?s begged hard for me, but ?he daresn’t contradict that man; and ?o after many kind words, which was very good of her, ?he ?aid I mu?t leave her, but particularly ?he ?aid for no fault, only becau?e of what her brother de?ired.
1798, , The Lakers: A Comic Opera, in Three Acts Chapter Act III. Scene I., I believe he daresn’t fight, though he talks ?o big.
1830, J Beuler, Comic Songs, to Popular Tunes. By J. Beuler. ... Sixth Collection, Chapter Since I’ve Been in the Army, There’s Murphy Roake, who often broke My head, now daresn’t dare me, But bows and quakes, and off he sneaks, Since I’ve been in the army.
Melville Moby-Dick|chapter=Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then Have a Talk over Him|pages=364–365|pageref=364|passage=Damn the devil, Flask; do you suppose I’m afraid of the devil? Who’s afraid of him, except the old governor who daresn’t catch him and put him in double-darbies, as he deserves, but let’s him go about kidnapping people; aye, and signed a bond with him, that all the people the devil kidnapped, he’d roast for him? There’s a governor!
1995, w:Orson Scott Card, w:Alvin Journeyman, But he lives around here doing tinkering and odd fixing, and Vilate Franker says he must have done some terrible crime to have to hide from the sea, or maybe there was some great sea beast that swallowed up his ship and left only him alive and now he daresn’t go back to sea for fear the beast—she calls it La Vaya Than, which Goody Trader says is Spanish for ‘Ain’t this a damn lie,’ do you know Goody Trader?
