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Example sentences for "terrors"

Lexicographically close words:
terroristic; terrorists; terrorize; terrorized; terrorizing; terrour; terrours; ters; terse; tersely
  1. The king of terrors Lays his rude hands upon her lovely limbs.

  2. At another, he resolved to amuse himself with their terrors in a different manner.

  3. And even the house keepers themselves, when recovered from their terrors and faintings, would fly shrieking from chamber to chamber, amidst the clouds of sulphur to see who were dead.

  4. Nature had given him a countenance which he could, at will, clothe with all the terrors of the tornado.

  5. The hates and the terrors were being put away and men were pulling together again to restore their civilization.

  6. She is always erect, day and night, and is always firmly moving on in our cause, in spite of all the terrors of gaols, dungeons, halters and axes.

  7. We can trace the growth of his terrors by two facts.

  8. Vain were the terrors that gathered around him, And short the dominion of death and the grave; He burst from the fetters of darkness that bound him, Resplendent in glory, to live and to save.

  9. Yet I do not mean to add new terrors to those which have already seized upon Pekuah.

  10. There was no telling what unknown terrors were theirs, what unknown hurts they could administer.

  11. The unknown with all its terrors rushed upon him, and he shrank back instinctively into the shelter of the bush.

  12. Then he lay down with a contented grunt at the master's feet, observing all that went on, ever ready to spring to his feet and fight for life with the terrors he felt must lurk under the trap-roof of the dwelling.

  13. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

  14. By it we are driven into this new revolution; a revolution which is to eclipse all that have gone before, as far as the glories of Calvary outshone the shadows and terrors of Sinai.

  15. The terrors of the middle ages, the lettres de cachet, sequestration, confiscation, rayless dungeons, and iron masks at once rise in view.

  16. The terrors of the night were too much for her; and, as when a child, at play with her brothers, she flew on as fast as her feet would carry her.

  17. Her terrors increased at every step, and the wall which she must follow to the end was so long--so endlessly long!

  18. The evangelist would still have added new traits to the terrors of these images.

  19. Terrors gather in battle array about him.

  20. This is a terrible saying; but do not let us carry things too far: the truth is sufficiently dreadful without adding new terrors to it by vain declamation.

  21. When a poor soul is somewhat awakened by the terrors of the Lord, then the poor creature, being born under the covenant of works, flies directly to a covenant of works again.

  22. But she answered him without delay or hesitation, impelled by the terrors that beset her and thinking of Patty's awful warnings and prophesyings--"I will leave you to say when.

  23. A fact which enables us to understand the terrors of lonely houses in those days, and explains the repugnance to life in solitary places which is traditional in some parts of England.

  24. He dared not let his mind run on its fear or its suffering, its terrors in the villains' hands, or the hardships which its helplessness might bring upon it.

  25. She chid herself for the childish terrors in which she had indulged, and lest she should give way to them again she determined to take a decisive step.

  26. Since his last visit to the Oaks he had been constantly rejoicing in the love of Christ, and now, expecting, as he did, to fall in the coming battle, death had no terrors for him.

  27. But there was still another and very different source of disquietude, and one, indeed, whose harassing terrors had been the chief means of arousing me to exertion from my stupor on the mattress.

  28. But at length the ceremony of baptism presented to my mind, in its unnerved and agitated condition, a present deliverance from the terrors of my destiny.

  29. By good fortune I at length hit upon the idea of working upon the superstitious terrors and guilty conscience of the mate.

  30. No supernatural terrors could appal him now, no fearful imaginings begotten of cold and darkness.

  31. The King of Terrors was about to exact the fulfilment of his awful bargain--and to exact it with interest.

  32. Exhaustion and the terrors she had gone through had reduced her to a state of semi-unconsciousness, in which her mind was hardly sensible of what went on around her.

  33. Behind the milk-white steed of Odo came the whole body of reserve, fresh and unbreathed, free from the terrors of their comrades, and stung into proud wrath at the delay of the Norman conquest.

  34. Cases of wife-beating and personal injuries, of savage and frightful assaults, of terrors and sufferings endured among the refined and educated, rarely if ever come to public notice.

  35. He knew also too well that he was standing on the verge of a dreadful condition from the terrors of which his soul shrunk back in shuddering fear.

  36. Where do they shroud their fiery wings and the terrors of their hair?

  37. Now that he had heard her voice, the terrors of his interview were dispersed, and he had only plain sadness to encounter.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terrors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.