dars't

Updated: May 25, 2025

If anything does happen to me, don't you dars't come out, but go in and bar the door again, and stay till your father comes back. Now, promise me! "She made 'em promise before she ventured out of the door, and then she left 'em at the open door, jest about breathless with suspense and terror, while Miss Sally sped across the yard toward the pig-pen.

Alice B. Emerson - Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp : Or, Lost in the Backwoods

I knows what a favior I'se axin'. I knows it doun to de groun'. I scarcely dars't to ax it, but if I loses you, sah, Marse Thomas De Willoughby an' Marse Rupert may lose de claim. Ef I lose you, sah, seems mos' like I gwine to lose my mind."

Frances Hodgson Burnett - In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim