Sentences with phrase «none of the rest dared»

Not exact matches

That same summer, my sister Abigail, in those days still known as the baby, even though just a bit more than a year younger than I, made the local paper, the Vineyard Gazette, when she won something like eight different prizes at the county fair on a muggy August night by throwing darts at balloons and baseballs at milk bottles, and so solidified her position as the family's only potential athlete — none of the rest of us dared try, for our parents always preached brains over brawn.