Such a one is impersonificated under the name of the Black Dog of Newgate, because the coney-catchers used to hunt people down threatening them with Newgate.
You are threatening to perish of too much Thomas Carlyle, I venture to caution you against that tremendous individual.
To such, Christianity presented itself simply as a novelty opposed to religion and threatening the State.
By all kinds of traps and sign-boards, threatening the extreme penalty of the divine law, exclude such trespassers from the only ground which can be sacred to you.
The boy was weeping, grinding his teeth, stamping with his feet, threatening with clenched fists: he appeared beside himself from fury and vexation.
The man she loved was departing; a disagreeable lover was threatening to come; and the most fearful mischiefs were to be anticipated, if the two, as might easily happen, should meet together.
If General Paget were to make a flanking movement threatening the road to the north, I should have been obliged to retire in hot haste, but we were in hopes the General would not think of this.
Our extreme left was first attacked by the enemy while they took possession of Belfast and Monument Hill, a little eastward, thereby threatening the whole of our fighting lines.
From an elevation to the northwest of the harbor, the grand battery showed a threatening front to those who might seek to force the entrance of the Sound.
The mass of his army was formed in threatening array upon the extreme left of the French position, and from a considerable height looked down almost into the rear of their intrenchments.
The heavens assumed a dark and threatening aspect; the night was approaching; and the mariners, fearing some impending evil, abandoned their labor, and returned on board.
While daylight yet remained, all the boats of that portion of the fleet were lowered, filled with marines and seamen, and ranged in order, threatening a descent upon the shore.
In consequence of some threatening movements in the British fleet, the French sent down a fire-raft on the night of the 28th.
While some of the British battalions were disordered in the rapid advance, a body of about 800 French and Canadians collected in a coppice near the St. Charles, and assumed a somewhat threatening appearance on the left flank of the pursuers.
II The night is gone; now disappear The clouds that hung in threatening near; Day comes apace, and terrors flee, For light illumes the earth and sea.
IV When on our life the curtain falls, And fast descends a threatening night, Then, lest dismay the soul appals, The stars shine bright.
From necessity now, and not from design, I had to keep my room, but even there my love for Martin was always hanging like a threatening sword over my head.
It was about three o'clock and a threatening afternoon.
There had been nothing forcible or obviously threatening in the man's last few remarks, but their effect was somehow sinister.
All round the narrow opening the spruces rose darkly against the threatening sky, and in its midst the Sergeant bent over the still form.
He left the camp with Emile and presently the others heard the half-breed threatening the dogs; then Walthew's voice reached them and there was a hoarse and urgent tone in it.
The sky had a threatening look, the snow was soft, and there were wolves about, but he was comparatively safe while daylight lasted and food must be found.
The weird fancies that clung around the gloomy halls and dark doorways still whispered their threatening tales of danger and death.
In the upper hallway Mother Borton stood by an open door, silhouetted dark and threatening against the dim flickerings that came from the candle in the room behind her.
The silence of the house of mystery was no less threatening now than on the night when Henry Wilton was walking through the halls on the way to his death.
A few paces farther the alley turned at a right angle to the north, yawning dark behind the grim and threatening buildings, and filled with noisome odors.
The shepherd's eyes smiled back a message of cheer, and the kind old man tried to speak, when Wash Gibbs made another threatening motion, with his clenched fist.
Suddenly the dog whirled about, the hair on his back bristling as he gave a threatening growl.
It speaks of that twofold aspect of the divine nature, by which to hearts that love He is gladsome light, and to unloving ones He is threatening darkness.
A man with whom he had worked told him how he was witness of a scene when a bold gatekeeper refused to open his turnpike gate to a body of armed men on horseback, who, after threatening him in vain, turned aside across the fields.
No story was too bad to be believed of 'Boney,' and women are said to have frightened their naughty children into good behaviour by threatening to send for 'Boney' to carry them away.
On turning on my back for one moment to rest, though not to stop, for I still struck out with my feet, I saw the savages on the margin of the water, fiercely threatening me with their daggers, but not daring to swim off in pursuit.
They had but just time to jump into the boat, leaving a large portion of the provisions they had prepared behind them, and to shove off, when the savages came rushing down with threatening gestures, shouting and shrieking.
The main-tack had given way, and the clew of the sail was flapping furiously in the wind, threatening with death all within its reach.
These dangers, threatening alike to the moral character and material welfare of nations, are completely prevented by the simple law, the operations of which we every day see around us--viz.
His legs and shoulders ached, threatening spasms, and the wound at the back of his head throbbed with pain each time his heart beat heavily, which for the past two hours had been almost constantly.
And as he lingered a moment, straining his senses for any sight or sound, even the cub seemed anxious, looking about it and at the threatening sky.
Is there some hostile psychic influence threatening you?
To meet the constantly increasing danger of physical violence and to uncover secret plots threatening sabotage and revolution, there were capable agents in every branch of the Secret Service, both Federal and State.
It's the path, for both sides, to a safer future--a system that defends human life instead of threatening it.
Government growing beyond our consent had become a lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity, threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom.
Pacific Remains Open Their commerce could go and enter through their own ports unimpeded, for happily in this crisis there was no danger threatening from across the Pacific.
With machine guns and rifles threatening all around them, the silent people of Boston saw their conquerors enter the City Hall, and knew that their sovereignty had passed into alien hands.
East of Providence the advance guard of the army that was threatening Boston reached the line from Attleboro through Bridgewater and Silver Lake to Kingston, thus extending across that part of Massachusetts all the way to Plymouth Bay.
Believe that hostile line stretching across Rhode Island and threatening us is now fully eighty thousand men, with preponderating artillery.
As soon as Domenichino began his work, therefore, he received letters threatening his life.
The threatening mist made him both glad and fearful.
She was frightened--an emotion so rare that she did not recognise it and feared that some physical evil must be threatening her.
On one side Sir Edward Stanley charged with archers and pikemen, on the other Lord Howard, Sir Edmund Howard, and Lord Dacre were threatening with both horse and foot.
In the spring of 1460 the Yorkists, who had fled so rapidly from the royal army at Ludiford, and had seemed to vanish as a mist, were again on foot, and in a threatening attitude.
The year 1555 opened with dark and threatening features.
Henry lost no time in getting rid of the woman, to obtain whom he had moved heaven and earth for years--threatening the peace of kingdoms, and rending the ancient bonds of the Church.
The herald made another proclamation to them in the market-place, repeating the offer of pardon, but threatening death to all who did not immediately accept it.
Nearly fainting with terror, fatigue, and hunger, as the moon broke through the clouds they beheld a huge man, armed, and with threatening gestures hastening towards them.
When he purchased his fifty Heralds, long before daylight, there seemed to be an army of newsboys ahead of him, and he was looked upon and muttered about in the most threatening manner.
The low, threatening growl which escaped him sent a shiver through all.
It was not that any spectral apparitions disturbed the festive company, for we know that the castle had been secured from the mischief of the threatening water-spirits.
Sylvia's light grasp, and coming towards Philip, with a threatening gesture.
