I know not whether these threats have affected their deliberations, but I know that they have failed to return a true bill against Sam Mosebury!
Whether he had made such threats to your knowledge or not, he did come from that hill county of the Kentucky mountains commonly called Bloody Brackton, did he not?
On the contrary, he had become so shy that no promises or threats would make him recite the little rhyme of greeting that he used to say at home.
In this first trial Tituba confessed that under threats from Satan, who had most often appeared to her as a man in black accompanied by a yellow bird, she had tortured the girls, and named as her accomplices the two women, Good and Osborn.
Deaf alike to the entreaties of his friends and the threats of the Court, he was condemned to the torture of peine forte et dure, the one instance when this old English penalty for contumacy was enforced in New England.
Phineas was no coward, and threatsserved only to fan the flame of his zeal.
She made no reply, and I, desiring to warn her against every danger, related what had passed at the cottage, omitting only Monmouth's loudmouthed threats against myself.
Notwithstanding these openthreats of war, the coercive measures continued.
The Indians made several threats of hostility but were each time repressed by Miles Standish and his men.
But he alternately calmed their discontent by promises of rich rewards and awakened their fears by threats of immediate punishment.
There was great mourning throughout the city, and beneath the wail of sorrow was a muttered undertone of threats towards the man who could do such a cowardly and treacherous thing as to kill the friend who trusted him.
Seeing that neither threats nor pleading would move the king to do what she desired, Hagen begged the queen to leave them, and give Gunther more time to make his decision.
The various announcements and postponements of this banquet have caused an agitation among the masses favorable to our wishes, and the threats and obstinacy of the Ministry have completed the work.
At length the populace, exasperated by impatience, hunger and sleeplessness, with brandished bayonets rushed into the very chamber of council, with furious cries, and with threats which were well nigh accomplished.
They speak not of sincere failure to accept Christ's doctrine or to recognise His commission, even though it breathe out threats and slaughters.
It is greater to convert a sinful woman in familiar converse by the well, than to shake trembling multitudes by threats of the fire for the chaff and the axe for the barren tree.
There are threatsof suicide on the part of the mother, the daughter, and the future husband, by which I mean that all three threaten to kill themselves unless they are allowed to have their way.
He thinks, as I do, that Craig run 'im off with threats of arrest an' picked that chance to bu'st.
Finally, threats of retribution close round Angelo, the villain, himself; but after all he escapes unpunished, being merely obliged to marry the amiable girl whom he had at an earlier period deserted.
When the tyrant appears to claim his child and slay the emperor's son, none can tell him which is which, and neither threats nor entreaties can prevail upon the servant to yield the secret.
It must be said for him, too, that threats and curses recoil from him innocuous, that neither hatred nor violence nor superior force can dash his courage.
Their horror at the sacrilege, and their fear of being implicated in, and suffering the dreadful penalties attending it, bore down all my arguments; my promises and my threats were alike disregarded.
The prisoners uttered violent threats and murmurs of indignation.
Let not thy threats and menaces betray me to anything that is ungrateful or unjust.
Within remains Imprisoned Fury bound in brazen chains; High on a trophy raised of useless arms, He sits, and threats the world with vain alarms.
But the most formidable part of my correspondents are those whose letters are filled with threats and menaces.
Struck dumb by this terrible denunciation, the fair culprit gasped for breath, and her evident distress having been watched in growing wonder by the assembled ladies and cavaliers, the latter began to mutter threats of vengeance.
As we work for peace, we must also meet threats to our nation's security, including increased danger from outlaw nations and terrorism.
The threats we face today as Americans respect no nation's borders.
As more of our medical records are stored electronically, the threats to all of our privacy increase.
Fifth, we must move strongly against newthreats to our security.
Crime But while Americans are more secure from threats abroad, I think we all now that in many ways we are less secure from threats here at home.
We must combat an unholy access of new threatsfrom terrorists, international criminals and drug traffickers.
If we fail to address these threats today, we will suffer the consequences in all our tomorrows.
There were many threats made against individuals, many condign--and lawless--punishments promised them.
From vague threats the situation developed rapidly to the definite and personal.
The Eurekas fell back grumbling, and uttering open threats to wash their rivals.
At first, what with that dread of our abode, Our sudden apprehension, and the threats Ringing perpetually in our ears, we lost The living fire of faith, and like poor hinds Would have denied our Lord and fallen away.
Yet, despite threats of poison and charges of witchcraft, they have arrived at an inkling of the dogma that "honesty is the best policy:" the East African has never dreamed it in the moments of his wildest imagination.
I tell you that you will gain nothing by threats and demonstrations, and the position of the principessina will certainly not be improved by any interference of such a character.
There must be no folly--no threats employed in order to enforce demands that in themselves are just.
It will be a strange method of showing your loyalty to Casa Acorari if you present yourselves with threatsand violence at the gates of the castle of Montefiano.
Full often did I groan: "Justly has this sorrow come upon me because I deserted the Paraclete, which is to say the Consoler, and thrust myself into sure desolation; seeking to shun threats I fled to certain peril.
Will Ministers really have the courage to carry out their threats against the Lords?
The Imperial words were filled with threats and reproaches to the Poles, formulated in terms so violent that they astonished Europe, where their authenticity was largely doubted.
The threats of which he had made use in regard to Mr. Long and Betsy were vague, but their utterance by the man at that time had startled Dick.
But Tom disregarded alike threats and tartlets, and his sisters had sat daily in terror of a catastrophe.
The Arabs were very angry, and made threats of war, which Mr. Deane disregarded.
Threats of war between England and Portugal bring into prominence that portion of Central Africa which is embraced in the title "Nyassaland.
As for your threats we pity you; for you know not what you do.
After a long talk, the stubborn chief left the tent in anger and with threats of extermination on his lips; but as he passed the inclosure, he was attracted by the gong, swinging in the wind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "threats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
