Careful Words

daring (n.)

daring (adj.)

Judicious drank, and greatly daring din'd.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Dunciad. Book iv. Line 318.

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe

When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe;

Like other charmers, wooing the caress

More dazzlingly when daring in full dress;

Yet thy true lovers more admire by far

Thy naked beauties—give me a cigar!

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Island. Canto ii. Stanza 19.

A fiery soul, which, working out its way,

Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,

And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.

A daring pilot in extremity;

Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high

He sought the storms.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 156.

The bravest are the tenderest,—

The loving are the daring.

Bayard Taylor (1825-1878): The Song of the Camp.