Act presumptuously, without permission

Usage examples of daring.

She often returned home pale and silent, having reached the uttermost depths of human abomination, and never daring to say all.

Ever since the rash but successful enterprise of the Franks under the reign of Probus, their daring countrymen had constructed squadrons of light brigantines, in which they incessantly ravaged the provinces adjacent to the ocean.

If there was one thing that terrified me above all others, it was not daring the wrath of the Master of the Straits nor the dangers of distant Alba and the blue-tattooed Cruithne.

Close at hand was the snowy mass of the Great Altels cooling its topknot in the sky and daring us to an ascent.

Her daring lover had returned to her, banishing the nervous amnesiac of a few moments ago, and she wanted to sing from both relief and fresh desire.

I caressed her in a somewhat lively manner, and drew back my hand, again apologizing for my daring, and when she let me see her face I thought I saw delight rather than anger in her eyes and on her cheeks, and I felt hopeful with regard to her.

In spite of myself, I listened to the quarrel, not daring to interfere, and not thinking of going away, when Michael Arout appeared at the shop-door.

Already the wounds were repairing themselves, but the arquebusiers were reloading with panicked haste, not daring to go near the dying creature.

The fabric of superstition which they had erected, and which might long have defied the feeble efforts of reason, was at length assaulted by a crowd of daring fanatics, who from the twelfth to the sixteenth century assumed the popular character of reformers.

And she cried for herself---for the loss of her childhood and her athleticism, for the loss of a certain innocence and daring after that night twelve years before.

The harbour defences, manned largely by Maltese, destroyed almost the whole attacking force in spite of its daring.

Moozh was taking a thousand fierce soldiers with him on a forced march through the mountains, to take the city of Basilica and destroy the party of Gaballufix, a group of men so daring and treacherous that they had dared to send an assassin against the general of the Gorayni.

I sighed and burned for her in silence, not daring to declare my love, for while the wound of the death of Charlotte was still bleeding I also began to find that women were beginning to give me the cold shoulder.

When Queen Cyrilla was taken out to be beheaded, he made a daring raid, and in the confusion of people come to see the execution, he snatched his sister from the axeman.

In a mood of daring, and remembering the cool flavour of the borage in his lemonade, he chose the former and was rewarded with a glance of approval from Lady Whitton.