14 Metaphors for dreads

The dread of coming to a standstill and being obliged to get out in that eight or ten inches of uninviting mud was a very appreciable factor in our discomfort.

Dread of danger and fondness for their new life were their reasons for remaining inside the lines.

People's dread of that office was very great, insomuch that the Calavii, Ovius and Novius, who were the heads of the conspiracy, either through fear of the dictator's power, or the consciousness of guilt, previous to the charge against them being laid in form before him, avoided, as appeared beyond doubt, trial by a voluntary death.

Their dread was the spring and the autumn, when the mud is deep.

Jenny tried to make him understand that dread of the Bishop was the last thing in Herbert's mind.

The dread of being interesting or natural, the adoration of pomposity and full dress, the sickening love of romance, the hatred of realityoh, it's a deplorable world!" XXXVII OF POSSESSIONS

The dread of fines or bodily punishment, rather than the prospect of high prices, is the chief method by which the supplies can be kept up.(Report of the English Consul.)

That dread is in itself a physical affection.

And the greatest dread I have about mother's illness is only a feeling, a feeling as if I knew, without quite knowing, that the trouble is deeper than appears.

And their dread of the great heathens was really a dread of Nature, and of the powers thereof.

But even with this idea to comfort her Katherine went to her bed with a heavy heart that night, and a dread of the morning to which before she had been a stranger.

The dread of him was my most potent influence over them.

That he will put the 'article' into his mouth and smoke it I have no manner of doubt; my dread is lest, in ten minutes' time, the book should have dropt into his lap and the man's eyes be staring into the fire.

During the night of the 18th my persistent dread became a false beliefa delusion.

14 Metaphors for  dreads