The Indians on the other side cried out, threatning the Christians to kill them, if they sought to passe it.
The threatning of the Indian campe agaynst the Spanyardes.
In vain you grasp the dagger in your hand, In vain you dress your brows in angry frowns, In vain you raise your threatning arm in air, Secure, Arsaces triumphs o'er your rage.
Why dost thou idly stand like imag'd vengeance, With harmless terrors threatning on thy brow, With lifted arm, yet canst not strike the blow?
He sent Baldaya, the Clerk of the Fort, to demand the Canon, threatning War, in case of denial.
And therefore still on hye 6 He ouer him did hold his cruell clawes, Threatning with greedy gripe to do him dye 8 And rend in peeces with his rauenous pawes, If euer he transgrest the fatall Stygian lawes.
But when he saw his threatning was but vaine, He cast about, and searcht his balefull bookes againe.
Suddeine they see from midst of all the Maine, 6 The surging waters like a mountaine rise, And the great sea puft vp with proud disdaine, 8 To swell aboue the measure of his guise, As threatning to deuoure all, that his powre despise.
Which when she heard, and saw the ghastly fit, Threatning into his life to make a breach, 8 Both with great ruth and terrour she was smit, Fearing least from her cage the wearie soule would flit.
Long the proud Spaniards had vaunted to conquer us, Threatning our country with fyer and sword; Often preparing their navy most sumptuous With as great plenty as Spain could afford.
My brother Douglas may upbraid, upbraid, And strive with threatning words to muve me: My luver's blood is on thy spear, 95 How canst thou ever bid me luve thee?
There is a terrible threatning against Zedekiah, Ezek xx.
If it be a prayer, we would expect another way of dealing with us, if they really desired the benefit of our prayers, than a threatning us with death, if we did it not.
I confess it is commonly taken as a threatning of the Lord's judgment against these sons of Belial: And so it is.
Paul knew well enough he was a judge, and knew well enough what was his duty to a judge, that he should not be reviled; but he would not acknowledge this priest to be a judge, or retract his threatning against him.
In that threatning against tyrants, shewing how they shall be thrust away and burnt up with fire, there is couched a promise, and also an implied precept of resisting them, 2 Sam.
Treacherous Love that did appear, (When he at first approach't my Heart) Drest in a Garb far from severe, Or threatning ought of future smart.
But so when God was close at hand, And the bright Cloud did threatning stand (In sight of Israel) on the Tent, They on in their Rebellion went.
Others swear that he was leaning on his Stick when he fell, which certainly was not a threatning posture.
John Rogger also testifyed, That upon the threatning words of this malicious Carrier, his Cattle would be strangely bewitched; as was more particularly then described.
He walk'd round me tho' he kept some Distance, and spoke in a threatning Tone.
Februarie we sailed on the other side to buy cattle, and other necessaries, but they seemed vnwilling to deale with vs, but we threatning to burne their houses, they brought vs Cattle and fruites inough, with all things else to our desires.
Hee spoke a thousand things against me in my hearing, threatningto kill me if I did not doe him right.
Then he toke all their apparell, and other furnitures that they did weare, and bestowed it in a little chamber, and with threatning words commaunded all three to lie in one bed.
That the Flames we have seen threatning the utter extirpation of the Country, must own their Original to these dangerous Errors (if not heresies) which if they remain Unextinguished, may and most likely will be acted over again.
A fewe dayes after, the Spirit appeared againe vnto the husbandman, menacing and threatning him, that in case he did not bury the aforesaid bones, he would kill his other sonne also.
Wherevpon they sent their defiance vnto the French king, threatning to be reuenged on him to the vttermost of their powers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threatning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.