Throws down the gauntlet

Usage examples of dares.

If you should wish to close the lips of a logician calling himself a philosopher, who dares to argue that in this life grief overbalances pleasure, ask him whether he would accept a life entirely without sorrow and happiness.

The fault I have been guilty of is a serious one only because I did not foresee the injury it would do me in the inexperienced mind of the ingrate who dares to reproach me with it.

The Bramble Hall will skin a man, unless he dares its grasp, with naked flesh and naked hands, his, er, covers all unhasped.

Until someone of Old Blood dares step forward and speak out, there is little I can do.

She dares not range further to protect us, for then the young dragons would die.

I will so act that he will be certain of having my love if he dares to seek it.

And she, on the other hand, is so bewildered that she has no use of her eyes, but fixes her gaze on the ground, and dares not direct it elsewhere.

The maiden dares not openly disclose her whole desire because she is greatly afeard that Thessala may blame and dissuade her.