From Brig of Dread that thou mayst pass every night &c: To Purgatory fire thou com’st at last and Christ &c: 7.
He seemed always to be aiming for one great dim star, which gave me encouragement; then the dread came over me that, from his steady pursuance of our journey, he must be making for home, and taking me right into the midst of my enemies.
Untaught by experience, I moistened the top of the first match I took out, my fingers trembling the while with nervous dread that I would drop the box or spill the matches, when the result might be death to one, if not to both.
What we had to dread was coming across a Boer outpost or patrol; but I had little fear of that without ample warning, for I had had frequent experience in hunting expeditions of the keenness of Joeboy's senses of sight and hearing.
The poor beast had been sadly punished in the melee; and between temper and dread he was hardly controllable, and bearing hard against the curb in a wild desire to rush off.
But O, my love, When the daylight dies There is more to my dread than he!
And, when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand formed thy dread feet?
The dread alarum should make the earth quake to its centre.
Up till then the Median soldiers had been believed to be the only invincible troops in the world; the sight of them alone excited dread in the bravest hearts, and their name was received everywhere with reverential awe.
The dread of the same disillusionment was in my heart as I drew near my luncheon, more serious in my case because the things I did not want to lose were too good to lose.
There was a horrid moment of bewilderment when I stepped from the Pennsylvania Station into a street where I ought to have been at home and was not, and this made me dread that at the luncheon the change would be more overwhelming.
The sense of smell will sometimes detect the presence of kerosene; the white paper test will sometimes expose it; and again both tests will fail, along with the other usual ones.
Those exquisite lines of Lord Tennyson’s seem so appropriate to my father, to his dread of good-byes, to his great and simple faith, that I have ventured to quote them here.
The frequent experience of this return of force when it is wanted saves me much anxiety, but I am not at times without the nervous dread that I may some day sink altogether.
Owls and ravens haunt the buildings, Sending gloomy dread to all; Yellow moss the summit yielding, Pellitory decks the wall.
A few essay'd the troubled soul to calm; But dread prevail'd, and anguish and alarm.
Aided by these, and spells, and tell-tale birds, Her power they dread and reverence her words.
I doubted long, and vainly strove to make Some certain meaning of the words she spake; But meaning there was none, and I survey'd With dread the beauties of my idiot-maid.
Since these, dread Sorrow, consequent of Sin And foul Deformity, the Breast of Man And the Sad Surface of the Earth enrobes.
For rite of churching soon she made her way, In dread of scandal, should she miss the day.
When the least misery was the dread of pain; When I have grieving told him my disgrace, And plainly mark'd indifference in his face.
We often met, he dreading to be seen, And much I question'd what such dread might mean; Yet I believed him true; my simple heart 150 And undirected reason took his part.
She had room only to think of her father now, but she knew that she should dread returning.
A presentiment of parting was on him, and his dread of London amounted to an absolute and quite unreasoning horror.
She went downstairs then, with some dread of all the questions and all the explanations before her, but with her mind made up.
But, after all, something worse awaited us than all this fury of the elements and the dread of worse to come to ourselves; for the reality of the worst that can come to anyone was then before us without a warning.
There was not an atom of heroism in this; it was undeniably the shrewd cunning of which women are accused, for I lived in hourly dread of being sent to Texas by the other route, via New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.
I dread going among the Monroe women and seeing them cast reproachful looks at me, when your sunburned face is introduced among their fair complexions.
Music: Ah why recall in misery, What tempestsdread have moved me?
But dread is on me for your deaths, brave knights.
I dread me sorely that much ill will come of this, and of the evil plots which our enemies weave about us.
For all were of Sir Mordred's evil company, and peradventure they lay some snare for you, and I dread me sore of treachery.
Therefore, I dread lest the queen will be shamed for this.
But I dread me,' went on Sir Gawaine, 'for I fear we may never see him in this life again.
Nevertheless, though wearied, full of dread and shame, and looking death in the eyes, the little band of men withdrew backwards, waiting until Arthur should command his lines of glittering knights to dash upon the remnant of the rebel kings.
All were full of dread to see so many brave knights depart that never more would return.
But what is the treason they would charge me with I know not; yet I dread it meaneth much evil plotting against me and the peace of this fair kingdom.
The huge albatross appeared here to dread no interloper or enemy; for their young were on the ground completely uncovered, and the old ones were stalking around them.
I have seen death in many forms; but I never beheld it with so dread an aspect as it here assumed.
He believed that the editor of a newspaper, like the writer of a public history, in the execution of his office, should dare to utter what is true, and dread to utter any thing that is false.
That gentleman errs egregiously, if he imagines that I can dread an investigation of any point involved in the President's Message.
With the shield of conscious rectitude, a Government can never dread the press.
I had dreaded this light, yet when it came there was apparently nothing to explain the profound sensations of dread that preceded it.
Vezin’s timid heart sank with dread as he listened; but the girl’s eyes held him with a net of joy so that he had no wish to escape.
Many and vivid impressions flashed through my mind, but not one of them resulted in action, because I was in instant dread that the beast any moment would leap in my direction and be upon me.
For her dread of fire and the sight of burning must, of course, have been the intuitive memory of her former painful death at the stake, and have thus explained why he fancied more than once that he saw her through smoke and flame.
Yet not all the crisp beauty of the morning seemed able to dispel the feelings of uneasy dread that gathered increasingly about our minds as we went.
Even the abhorrent dread I felt at the sight of the creature growing into life and substance before us, lessened in some way so that I was able to keep my eyes fixed on the air above the bowl without too vivid a terror.
At the same time his words conveyed a sense of dread seriousness.
Silence pointed to them, but without comment and without pausing, and the sight of them woke in me a singular realisation of the dread that lay so far only just out of sight in this adventure.
I only know, that in mortal dread of being left behind, and with a biting curiosity to see whatever there was to be seen, I followed as quickly as I could, and even then barely succeeded in keeping up with him.
Eyes dark with thedread of the morrow, And woe for the day that was gone, The sleepless companions of sorrow, The watchers that witnessed the dawn.
Here is the result: But here's an object more of dread Than aught the grave contains-- A human form with reason fled, While wretched life remains.
And that heart, o'er whose dread awful silence A nation has wept; Was the truest, and gentlest, and sweetest A man ever kept!
We might as reasonably dread the effects of combinations among the German as among the American states, and deprecate the resolves of the Diet, as those of Congress.
Of such dread power are Bonaparte's decrees, which have of late been enforced in the strictest manner all over the Continent, that it has almost ruined the commerce of England.
Paisiello seems to have been an intriguer all his life, and to have been constantly in dread of rivals; though he probably had less reason to fear them than any other composer of the period.
As he was unacquainted with their language, and could not explain the cause of his coming, he was in dread lest they should take him for an enemy and kill him.
Our country yet remains: By that dread name, we wave the sword on high, And swear for her to live--with her to die!
Her heart sunk within her: she strove in vain to collect and compose herself, and, overpowered with dread and uncertainty, was ushered into the presence of the Chief.
Her whole body began to tremble with thedread of her own weakness.
She was determined to assert her independence, and if she stooped to fib about the Hepburn picnic it was chiefly from the secretive instinct that made her dread the profanation of her happiness.
And her dread of Mr. Royall's intervention gave a sharpened joy to the hours she spent with young Harney, and made her, at the same time, shy of being too generally seen with him.
Would she have acquiesced in that dread obedience, that sacrificial rite?
What generous souls need fear that dread ordeal, that was to remove them from the outer to the inner court?
You have no nerves, no diseased sensibilities; you do notdread the evils you cannot see, the universe does not picture itself to you in dim terrors.
He told us the heathen might dread pain, but not the Christian; that one really worthy of the name must be content to be the cross bearer, to tread really and literally in the steps of the Master.
I began to dread the consequences to myself as well as to the children.
Should we read it thus, we should dread Martial's sarcasm of, Sed male cum recitas.
But, when the swimmers dread some danger near, The sportive pleasure yields to stronger fear: No more they wanton drive before the blasts, But strike the sails, and bring down all the masts.
The whole dreadful area is covered with sand, over which lie scattered loose flints and whitened bones, Thus, "Fierce in dread silence on the blasted heath, Fell Upas sits!
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