I came to heighten tortures by reproach, And add new terrours to the face of death.
Yet I do not mean to add newterrours to those which have already seized upon Pekuah.
I know but one way of fortifying my Soul against these gloomy Presages and Terrours of Mind, and that is, by securing to my self the Friendship and Protection of that Being, who disposes of Events, and governs Futurity.
I at first Entrance declared him my Partner if I danced at all; which put the whole Assembly into a Grin, as forming no Terroursfrom such a Rival.
Nor are these watermen, sir, more able to stand firm in the terrours of the storm, or the noise of a battle, than those who follow any other occupation.
But terrours and pity are not the only means by which the taxation of the Americans is opposed.
She daily exercises her benevolence by pitying every misfortune that happens to every family within her circle of notice; she is in hourly terrours lest one should catch cold in the rain, and another be frighted by the high wind.
False hopes and false terrours are equally to be avoided.
Every consideration therefore, by which groundless terrours may be removed, adds something to human happiness.
But though there may be some slight satisfaction received from the mortification of my enemies, yet my benevolence will not suffer me to take any pleasure in the terrours of my friends.
Thus histerrours are multiplied by his hopes, and he is defeated without resistance, because he had no expectation of an enemy.
Nor is the prospect less likely to ease the doubts of the cautious, and the terrours of the fearful; for to such the shortness of every single paper is a powerful encouragement.
Fight with me, or escape (Whoever may) the terrours of his fate, But ye all perish, if my thought be true.
Even an hostile band when they invade A foreign shore, which by consent of Jove They plunder, and with laden ships depart, Even they with terrours quake of wrath divine.
At length he threw himself on the bed, and closed his eyes, but imagined, in his sleep, that his palace and gardens were overwhelmed by an inundation, and waked with all the terrours of a man struggling in the water.
He at last discovered, that his terrours and grief were equally vain, and that to lose the present in lamenting the past, was voluntarily to protract a melancholy vision.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terrours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
