O great was Conn in that dread hour, And all the Fians feared his power, And watched, as in a darksome dream, The warriors meet ...

The dread disease that robbed me of my sight had crept on me slowly through the years, and now I lay in my bedroom in Walpole Street, with my old nurse, Priscilla Drew, sleeping on an extemporised bed outside my door to tend and care for me.

He was fortunate enough, through the dread power of the three Honored Ones, to receive help and protection in his perils; and therefore he wrote out an account of his experiences, that worthy readers might share with him in what he had heard and said.

Although all the fruits of Italy's two years of strife had been swept away in a single month and a dread enemy was reaching ever forward, seeking her most treasured possessions of art and industry, the internal dissensions which Germany probably hoped to start had not appeared.

JOSEPH ADDISON FROM THE CAMPAIGN Behold in awful march and dread array

And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand?

Fierce in dread silence on the blasted heath Fell UPAS sits, the HYDRA-TREE of death.

Toward evening of the next day, they were startled by the dread summons of the boatswain and his mates at the principal hatchway,a summons that sent a shudder through every manly heart in the frigate: "All hands witness punishment, ahoy!"

They have stood "the world's dread laugh," when only twelve men formed the first Anti-Slavery Society in Boston in 1831.

And now we began the descent, which was actually more perilous than the ascent, but we made light of it, being very much enlivened by the high mountain air and the relief from dread uncertainty, shouting out our reflections one to another as we jolted down the rugged path.

To what dread end.

Fernando swallowed down his heart as he touched the spardeck, for a single instant balanced himself on his best centre, and then, wholly ignorant of what was going to be alleged against him, advanced to the dread tribunal of the frigate.

Welcome, good Skink, thou justly dost complain, Thou stand'st in dread of death for Rosamond, Whom thou didst poison at our dread command

Let all the mournful sounds of earth be heard, The breeze hath carried stored from beast and bird; Join the sweet notes of doves for their lost love To the wild moans of hours,wailing move; Let choirs of Heaven and of the earth then peal, All living beings my dread sorrow feel!

"Banishment,a prisoner for life," said he, for the first time explaining to any person his dread sentence.

If De Chauxville kept cool all might yet be wellthe dread secret of the probability of Sydney Bamborough being alive might still be withheld from Steinmetz.

The voice of her child roused Hasty from her dreams of peace, to the dread realities of her bereavement.

When the dread shadow of sickness is o'er me, I see thee, a lassie all brightness and bloom; Still, still through thy tears strewing blossoms before me, Still watching beside me through silence and gloom.

His last dread pleasure!

Why that dread pause, and that creating arm held back in mid career, and that high conference in the godhead? "Let us make man in OUR IMAGE, after OUR LIKENESS, AND LET HIM HAVE DOMINION over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

And before his mental sight there rose the dread vision of warthe insatiablestriding like a devouring monster over a whole continent.

'Twas thus Emanuel found them; silently He stood before them in a dread suspense; His very soul seemed poised upon the word Which left at last his trembling lips,"Rachel!"

But Mary, faithful to its lightest word, Kept in her heart the sayings she had heard, Till the dread morning rent the Temple's veil, And shuddering Earth confirmed the wondrous tale.

She knew the dread thing coming, but her clear Cheek never changed: till suddenly she fled Back to her own chamber and bridal bed: Then came the tears and she spoke all her thought.

But since you are agreed that I shall bear The weighty burthen of this kingdom's state, Till the return of Richard our dread king, I do accept the charge, and thank ye all, That think me worthy of so great a place.