It was one thing to sing of the glory of war, but it was another and far different thing to be held as a prisoner in southern Maryland and to be threatened with confinement in the old prison-house at Richmond.
It was essential for the plans he had formed that his own communications with his base of supplies should not be threatened by such a large garrison as had been placed in Harper's Ferry.
Aware of the perils which recently had threatened him, Noel was not inclined either to prolong the interview or to compel his prisoner to remain longer on the ground.
He always used to look down on the colonial girls that our neighbours married, and threatened to go home for a thoroughly accomplished wife; and now one of that stamp has come out to him, and saved him time and money.
Her illness threatened permanently to weaken her constitution, particularly as winter was fast approaching, and she had felt that season in England very trying during the preceding year.
You no giva coffee, I letta out da bear," threatened the leader, scrambling up and running to the tree where the cinnamon bear was secured.
The girls now that they knew no danger threatened them stood perfectly still, waiting for the concert to come to an end.
Even Lucilla was obliged to yield, when the surgeon in attendance on her threatened to throw up the case.
Sometimes he talked of going back to America; and sometimes he threatened to close his career by enlisting as a private soldier.
She accompanied them with hands that seemed to be mad for joy--hands that threatened every moment to snap the chords of the instrument.
It threatened to rain; and Lucilla, on that account, refrained from proposing to accompany me.
I am threatened with a double chin--at two and twenty.
All I say is that I did, in my desperation, positively mean doing it, at the moment when I threatened to do it--and that Nugent Dubourg heard something in my voice which told him I was in earnest.
Full as my mind was of my own troubles, I could still think of the danger that threatened Lucilla, and of the wrong that Oscar had suffered.
At Gratz the Catholics threatened to expel the Protestants from the city.
At whatever point She was attacked or threatened there Camus was to be found armed cap-a-pie to defend her.
It is behaving like Balaam, who beat the ass which carried him, instead of taking heed to the peril which threatened him and which the poor beast was miraculously warning him to avoid.
She saw Alma gradually undergoing a change that threatened to damage her own steadying influence over her sister, and to divide their sympathies.
In this way we moved slowly, about one mile, when it became quite dark, and threatened rain.
She was a quivering atom of sentiency driven through a black, roaring, icy void by a thundering wind that threatened to extinguish her feeble flicker of animate life like a candle blown out in a storm.
From time to time, the schools were seriously threatened when the interest on the state debt was so high that there was little surplus left for educational purposes.
The boythreatened to tell of it; but he assured him that he would certainly kill him if he did; so he never ventured to disclose it.
With a calm and dignified manner, he thus addressed him: "I understand thou hast threatened to blow out the brains of Elias Hicks, if he comes upon thy plantation.
Bouilla ran up-stairs, and arming himself with a gun, threatened to shoot whoever advanced toward him.
The children were too young to understand the terrible doom that threatened their mother, but they perceived that their parents were in some great trouble, and the little creatures wept in sympathy.
He told the constable it was his duty, as a police-officer, to arrest those men for carrying deadly weapons and making such a turmoil in the street; and hethreatened to complain of him if he did not do it.
When the claimant saw them approaching, he went into the cabin for his gun, and threatened them with instant death if they came near his vessel.
One of the prisoners, who had been convicted of man-slaughter, became furious, in consequence of being threatened with a whipping.
They charged Friend Hopper with playing a trick upon them, and threatened to prosecute him.
The noise attracted the attention of his guard, who threatened him with instant death if he did not return.
He cursed the mayor, threatened to prosecute the keeper, and was in a furious rage with every body.
Others, whose demands had been refused as exorbitant, threatened to go to law, hoping to frighten Sauvresy into paying.
In short, she knew what his relations with Madame Sauvresy had been, and she threatened him; it was a regular black-mailing operation.
No longer ago than last week, the keeper of the Cafe du Commerce came here and made a row on account of what he owed him, and threatened to go to the count about it.
Already I could hear shouts from those in the rear demanding that I be "finished" before Sandy's score was paid off, and more than one threatened to take a hand in the business if it was not brought to a speedy close.
So far as I was able to see, everything appeared in much the same condition as when we had rescued Sandy, yet there could be no question but that danger threatened from some quarter.
A view of the two armed bodies, drawn up one against the other, told more clearly of the danger which threatened than words could have done, and the cautious began to ask if it would not be well to send the women and children away.
The creditors stormed, and fumed, and threatenedall manner of things.
Alice appeared to be struggling with some powerful agitation which threatened to master her, for she stopped, and placed her hand to her heart, as if to check its beatings.
Regular lines of steamboats were now formed on the Ohio to connect with the Cumberland Road at Wheeling, although the steamboat monopoly threatened to stifle the natural development of transportation on Western rivers.
Showing a surly attitude to the deacon-judges who sat on his case, he was threatened with civil prosecution and imprisonment.
Here Estevan and most of his Indian followers were put to death by the Zunis; those who escaped fled to Fray Marcos, whose life was threatened but who saved himself by regaling the natives with the contents of his pack.
While crossing the public square I met the man who had threatened to shoot me.
In experimenting with these lights, when I first introduced them, I several times met with accidents which threatened to terminate my career.
He threatened our men with many things if they did not disclose the whereabouts of his lost calf.
Stopping squarely in front of him I said: "I believe you have threatened and intend to kill me, and I want to say to you that you will never find a better opportunity to do so than right now.
The multitude even threatened violence if he was removed.
The German residents were insulted that a pig should be named after the beloved founder of their empire, and threatened summary vengeance.
Even Bun his brother, whom he had threatened with a "paste on the blinker" only the day before, might censure him and tell him he ought to be hanged or be sent to jail.
He might have taken one of the boys aside and told his story to him, but Frank could not remember one of his schoolmates whom he had not threatened to "clean up" or "clout in the jaw" at one time or another.
The irregular act is, however, made known to the authorities, and Mateo is threatened with instant dismissal if he persists in avoiding the street in question.
Miralda, who replied: 'My promise was made only with a view to save myself from threatened violence.
At that very moment Mateo's pockets are full of these safeguards, and when threatened with any danger, he has only to sprinkle around him some of the antidote against evil.
He pressed on the cloth; an ominous creaking warned him that Big Flower objected to being shut by force, and threatened to break.
It would be easier to travel with Big Flower by keeping to the river-bed instead of going through the brush, which constantly threatened to tear it.
Several threatenedto go home at once; and two brothers of Queen Althea, rude, unmannerly fellows, loudly declared that the hunt was for heroes and not for puny girls.
But day after day the monster laid waste the land, and threatened to destroy not only the farms, but the towns; and so they were forced in the end to give up Andromeda to save their country.
Madalen--there you are weeping and embracing the boy, as if really misfortune threatened him.
Good mother, now see the misfortune that threatened us because I wished to see a Korrigan!
Susy's well-meant attempt to restore her threatened equilibrium was too much for Fanny.
She was painfully shy at all times, but overwhelmingly so at that moment, though she knew that she was the only woman in the place who would make the attempt to evade the distinction which threatened her.
The thick overcast of the sky threatenedfurther storm, and the white of the accumulated snow could not fully illuminate the darkened landscape.
Copenhagen has threatened to withhold its annual subsidy of $130 million - roughly one-third of the islands' budget revenues - unless the Faroese make significant efforts to balance their budget.
Good relations with Russia are threatened by animosity between ethnic Russians (34% of the population) and native Latvians.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threatened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cornered; exposed; foreshown; indicated; jealous; predicted; presaged; promised; threatened
