The doctrine, when it is propounded by weak humanity, is never a statement of abstract truth; it is a declaration of intention, a threat, a boast, an advertisement.

A few days after he was on duty, he breathed a threat against Captain Snipes.

It was a threat, not an attack; a promise of what was to come.

It was both through the specific, if misguided, actions of some media executives, as well as the much more unilateral response of an entire media culture responding to a threat to the status quo, that mainstream media began to reverse the effects of the remote, the joystick and the mouse.

Good Road reminds her that Shining Iron had made a threat, and it was not proper he should live; and the chief insisted more upon this, when he added that these children of her's were by a former husband, and it was natural his sons should resent their father's preference for them.

The sharp little eyes, surrounded by puffy flesh, held a threat for him.

The favour of the consul saved from a trial, before the people, Postumius; who, on a prosecution being commenced against him by Marcus Scantius, plebeian tribune, evaded, as was said, the jurisdiction of the people, by procuring the commission of lieutenant-general, so the indictment against him could only be held out as a threat, and not put in force.

Yet he knew that it was a menace and a threat.

Watching the rich man pass; Envy's gleam in many an eye, Hate in many a threat; Why should he be warm and dry, And they be cold and wet?

Their appearance upon the streets of Petrograd was almost always a threat to the people.

Mr. SMITH (of S.C.) had no idea of holding out a threat to any gentleman.

Mr. SMITH (of S.C.) had no idea of holding out a threat to any gentleman.

I scorn such a pitiful thing as a threat, but a man of your years needn't be told, that it is just as easy to go down from this here spar as it was to come up to it.

Sometimes they repeated this process over and over again with the same slave until a threat of exposure from him led to his being silenced by murder.

This last was not a threat, as Jules knew only too well.

" They had gossiped further, that still fearing her rebellion, he had worded a threat for her in the next clause, "And I command my handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide and cleave unto my servant Joseph and to none else.

That didn't seem to bother Troy Putnam, but Zimbardo must consider you a threat.

You certainly must not return it under a threat,even though the woman should be starving.

I am not disposed to surrender these arms under a threat of this kind, especially when I know that I am only doing my duty to the Government." [Sidenote] Foster to De Russy, Dec. 20, 1860.

With a muttered oath and a threat, he started toward her.

On one such occasion the employer lost his temper and gave him a piece of his mind, ending by a threat of proceedings for breach of contract.

Antennae these of the great fleet waiting with the threat of stored lightning ready to be flashed from gun-mouths; a threat as efficacious as action, in nowise mysterious or subtle, but definite as steel and powder, speaking the will of a people in their chosen field of power, felt over all the seas of the world, coast of Maine and the Carolinas no less than Labrador.

If one of them heard a threat against us he would guard our house all night with a shotgun, and would shadow me as I went about in the night, ready to spring upon any of my assailants.

"I owe half my power in California to the fact that I do not make a threat to-day and forget it to-morrow.

You, well knowing my determination, and carried away by your evil temper, have magnified into a threat what he never intended as such.