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"Durst" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Further than that they durst not go.
So now to winged Love this mandate she addressed: / "O son, sole source of all my strength and power, / who durst high Jove's Typhoean bolts disdain, / to thee I fly, thy deity implore."
And when they were departed, the terror of God fell upon all the cities round about, and they durst not pursue after them as they went away.
And he said: I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face: for he durst not look at God.
I ran about the shore wringing my hands and beating my head and face, exclaiming at my misery, and crying out, ‘I was undone, undone!’ till, tired and faint, I was forced to lie down on the ground to repose, but durst not sleep for fear of being devoured.”
Traditional rhyme Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail; the best man among them durst not touch her tail.
Pretty soul! She durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.
That thou durst, Arcite!
Who durst defy th' omnipotent to arms.
And they durst not steal, for fear of the law, for such were punished; neither durst they rob, nor murder, for he that murdered was punished unto death.
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Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me, though I had done no mischief; nor was there a monk who durst speak to me, nor a laic who durst bring me food except by stealth.
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.
Others, I am not the first, Have willed more mischief than they durst
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