Ride all the way till you come to the shopping-ground in a coach if you can, in an omnibus if you must, lest you should be tired when you get there.
His wife's friends had converted his brother Zeno to Christianity; but he had no need to fear lest Euryale should follow them.
Melissa let him rest a little while; then she approached him, thanked him profusely, and begged him to keep quiet, lest the pain should return and spoil the approaching day.
Crosswise then did Hiawatha, Drag his birch-canoe for safety, Lest from out the jaws of Nahma, In the turmoil and confusion, Forth he might be hurled and perish.
To the kingdom of the West-Wind, To the realms of Mudjekeewis, Lest he harm you with his magic, Lest he kill you with his cunning!
Homeward weeping went Nokomis, Sorrowing for her Hiawatha, Fearing lest his strength should fail him, Lest his fasting should be fatal.
Take heed lest his beams fall on you, For the rays he darts around him Are the power of his enchantment, Are the arrows that he uses.
Thus his life was spent between fits of wild devotion and paroxysms of remorse, lest he had become an idolater.
What wonder if our joy was too deep for words, and we could only turn it over in our minds, and tremble lest it should prove too delightful to be realized?
We did not dare to let any one of the guards know of this expedient, or appear in public in our new liberty, lest more effectual means should be devised of securing us.
I confess that for one instant the blood flowed to my heart with a sharp, piercing throb, and there came a sudden and terrible fear lest the fever-weakened body would not in this crisis obey the dictates of will.
When there is only one infant these soothing syrups must be cautiously applied, lest the necessity for a nurse should terminate altogether, and you are thrown out of your situation.
Use sugar in children's food very sparingly, and, lest the infant be tempted to want some of the sugar that is saved out of the quantity allowed, lose no time in locking it up out of sight in your own tea-caddy.
And slowly answered Arthur from the barge: The old order changeth, yielding place to new, 240 And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Half the men went before us to part the tangled bushes, the remainder brought up the rear, lest one of us should be lost; a possible and very unpleasant prospect in jungle so thick that it is impossible to see a yard around.
When all is finished, the table looks like a kaleidoscope, and one is afraid to move a spoon or glass lest the design be destroyed.
I have given my impressions of the Remyo society candidly, perhaps a little too candidly; but lest any who read this book be disposed to hold the latter opinion, let me say one thing more.
There lay the tiger, quite dead, but looking so lifelike that while I put my hand in his mouth or felt his cruel claws, I was conscious of a half fear lest he should be only shamming, and should come to life again with a sudden spring.
We expected to draw the best German divisions to our front and to consume them while the enemy was held under grave apprehension lest our attack should break his line, which it was our firm purpose to do.
The policy of allied leadership was to fight until the last minutelest there should be some hitch.
And I wish that I and the companions of my childhood could have imitated Plutarch who said "I live in a little town and choose to live there lest it should become smaller.
When there, I dare not go forward lest I might be lost.
I dreaded lest she should say again, "I am so glad.
She affected solicitude lest the life-blood of my intelligence should be pouring out through my cut finger.
You cannot be ignorant, that there are natures who would endure no rule, did it not come by the right of inheritance; a right by dispute, lest they teach their inferiors the same refractory lesson.
I would not have you come to Stirling, lest it should be supposed that you are influenced in your judgment either my myself or my wife.
Ker, who had never been in these tracks before, wondered at their sublimity, and became alarmed lest they should lose their way amid such infinite windings.
The three Scottish lords, afraid lest Bruce might be again taken into favor, labored to show that his friendship with Wallace, pointed to his throwing off the English yoke, and independently assuming the Scottish crown.
Away from me, apt son of a tyrant, lest I tear you in piecemeal!
The proud walls along the Golden Horn trembled, lest their pride should be for the third time humbled, and this time, as the last, from the Asian shore.
She did not encourage the addresses of our countryman, but she warned him of the snare laid for him, and entreated him to leave the place lest her brother should discover and punish her honesty.
The guard at the door were extremely alarmed lest the semi-barbarian should assassinate the First Consul.
And what between the foul air and my resentment, and apprehension lest John Paul would come hither after me, I was in prodigious discomfort of body and mind.
On Wednesday we looked for a reply from Bristol, if not for the appearance of Bell himself, and when neither came apprehension seized us lesthe had already sailed for Maryland.
Should Fortune fail to second your valour, bewarelest you perish unavenged.
And then, when the grip of it all begins to be felt, we are afraid not to go on ordering, lest our creditor should be offended and dun us for his "little account.
She fears to be firm, lestshe should lose some of the affection she prizes.
The Prime Minister and the Director-General of Public Education were present to introduce me, but all the court had been dismissed, lest the two bottles aforesaid should corrupt their morals.
Therefore, lest I should forget my dream, I have made shift to set it down here.
I have hung up a large black jar before our window to turn the evil eye from us, and we must make no protestations of delight, but go softly underneath the stars, lest God find us out.
The rains did not come, and the earth turned to iron lest man should escape death by hiding in her.
Wherefore, O stranger, dare thou not approach me with desire, Lest ruin quick and pitiless thy hardihood requite.
Indeed, I fear lest the Khalif come to know of this and be wroth with me; so tell me thou what is to be done in this wherewith I am afflicted of the affair of this damsel.
I fear me for my body from sickness and unrest, Lestof the fear of sev'rance it be betrayed and slain.
But he feared for himselflest estrangement betide him; so he concealed his secret and discovered not his case to any of the creatures of God the Most High.
FN#88] Forbear thy verse-making, O thou that harbourest in the camp, Lest to the gleemen thou become a name of wonderment.
Hasten then "to amend, lest that in taking to yourself that which "does not belong to you, you lose the crown with "which we have gratified you.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
