 | L. M. Montgomery - 1997 - 522 σελίδες
...stray woman-child of whom shy Matthew Cuthbert was so ludicrously afraid.6 4. "And dar st thou, then, / To beard the lion in his den, / The Douglas in his hall?" (Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, A Tale of Flodden Field [1808], "The Battle," Canto 6, 11. 22—25). Marmion,... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1999 - 468 σελίδες
...after Marmion has dared to speak his mind to the Earl in the Earl's own hold: And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, the Douglas in his hall? (Walter Scott, Marmion, VI.xiv.23-5) 49. an extremely pure and romantic feeling. 1913 CM removes 'pure... | |
 | Charles Williams, Florence Sarah Conway Williams - 2002 - 338 σελίδες
...18,1940, n. 160. 45. New Christian Year. 46. Sir Walter Scott, "Marmion," 14. And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? 47. Father Curtis; see Sept. 15, 1940. par. i. 48. Apparently he planned to write to Blackwell about... | |
 | 2003 - 1282 σελίδες
...to defy a person in his home, office, or other usual place of work or living: And dar'st thou then to beard the lion in his den, the Douglas in his hall? (Scott), put one's head in the lion's mouth. See under head. throw (or feed) to the lions, to cast... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 2003 - 258 σελίδες
...cheek the flush of rage O'er came the ashen hue of age: Fierce he broke forth, 'And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? And hop'st thou hence unscathed to go No, by Saint Bride of Bothwell, no! Up drawbridge, grooms - what, warder, ho! Let the portcullis fall,' Lord... | |
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I tell thee, thou'rt defied! And if thou saidst I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied... 
