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- phrase Alternative form of
dursn't .
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Examples
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I durstn't go outside this dell for any money; I felt that something was creeping up the slope. '
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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"Oh! I durstn't do it," rejoined the small servant; "Miss Sally 'ud kill me if she knowed I come up here."
Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser
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He durstn't stay inside longer, and he sent me to keep
Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America Roy Rockwood
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Sir, you'm a better man nor me; you done what I durstn't do.
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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We was aiming for the Gap, but it took us thirteen days to make it, travelling mostly by night, and living on berries, for we durstn't risk a shot.
The Path of the King John Buchan 1907
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Hall, with his ill-regulated tongue, and the old Parson, who, to say truth, was half the cause of their unpopularity, the church services having sunk to a public scandal; and yet they durstn't cast him over, by reason that he owned eight ramshackle houses, and his curate a couple besides, and by mock-sale could turn these into as many brand-new voters.
Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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No, Miss Ellen; he's in the library with my master; and somehow I durstn't go to the door; mayhap they wouldn't be best pleased.
The Wide, Wide World 1892
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Our rector, in whose church (St. Luke's) the marriage was to take place, being told by his wife I wished to go, but durstn't for fear of the coldness of the church, ordered the fires to be kept up from Sunday over into Tuesday morning! besides a rousing fire in the vestry, where I sat at my ease till the moment the ceremony began!
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"Oh! I durstn't do it," rejoined the small servant; "Miss Sally 'ud kill me, if she know'd I came up here."
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Various 1885
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An 'durstn't spake a word but grin, the whilst that Chairley's there!
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