The Roman feels that the air around him is full of eyes and ears; he dare not speak; he dreads even to think; he knows that a thought or a look may convey him to prison.
The barbarian hates art because he does not understand its uses, and dreads its power.
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all, To be free is to live, to be slaves is to fall; Has the land such a dastard as scorns not a LORD, Who dreads not a fetter much more than a sword?
His Miss the frolick Viscount dreads to toast, Or his third Cure the shallow Templar boast; And the rash Fool who scorn'd the beaten Road, Dares quake at Thunder, and confess his God.
A Fribbler is one who professes Rapture and Admiration for the Woman to whom he addresses, and dreads nothing so much as her Consent.
There is none in Town whom Tom dreads so much as my Friend Will Dry.
Which nor dreadsthe rage Of tempests, fire, or war, or wasting age.
When he resolves to give over his Passion, he tells us that one burnt like him for ever dreads the Fire.
As for this delusion of providing a shield against old age, no doubt what put it into your head was the verse in Virgil which speaks of "The ant who dreads a destitute old age.
Nothing in sight, with the blinding fog on either side, and not knowing any moment that he will not be colliding with some high points of the earth, the air-pilot positively dreads the fog.
Were the position reversed, one dreads to think what might happen to this country.
The King dreads offending the god of suppliants "lest he should make him to haunt his house, a dread visitor who quits not sinners even in the world to come.
So simple and sure is its instructive and deterrent action that we have built a proverb on it,--"The burnt child dreads the fire.
In the confusion of his senses, his fancy exaggerates his fears, and he almost dreads to look back across the bottom-land.
He dreads its reappearance; he must assure himself of its absence.
You must excuse me; but really it would be no marvel if I forgot how to speak altogether; for I have been sitting now two months already in this frightful den, like an owl that dreads the daylight.
What he most dreads is, lest you should proclaim from the housetops that he is in correspondence with you.
His whole labour is a plea for some vague but comfortable faith which he dreads to have stolen from him by the progress of art and knowledge.
What he dreads in space is that the heart should be possessed by it, and transformed into it.
He dreads that the imagination should be fascinated by the homogeneous and static, hypnotised by geometry, and actually lost in Auseinandersein.
What the thorough-bred Eschevin, whether new or old, dreads above every thing else, is specialties.
Shew me the man, who knows what life is, who dreads it, and I'll shew thee a prisoner who dreads his liberty.
And experience never shows man that woman's growls relieve her soul, and that she dreads nothing more than their being acted on!
The keeper is in my way; with regard to me, [609] she dreads her husband.
He dreadshis master and understands him and does as he bids him.
Why he dreads it, and what he is afraid of, remains to be told.
I think he is longing to tell, yet dreads to do so, which is inconsistent with his assertion that he has broken no law.
The man who must keep a home together and maintain appearances grows tired of wrestling with domestic problems, and either dreads the sudden departure of his cook-housekeeper or trembles under her tyrannical sway.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dreads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
