5572 examples of dreaded in sentences

Behind that was wind, a summer gale, the black squall dreaded by the Siwashes.

And then the very thing she expected and dreaded came about.

And she wonderedwondered if a bolt of that lightning she had dreaded ever since her marriage was about to strike her now.

She would know it was there, and Jack Fyfe would know, and she dreaded the fruits of that knowledge, the bitterness and smothered resentment it would breed.

The very thing she dreaded had come about.

Could Norway's priest-despising chief, deem sacrilege a crime Fitting for absolution,or dark penance of set time That daring such all dreaded sin, he gazes on the grave, And tramples o'er the hallow'd dust of canoniz'd Olave.

I fought against it, laughing at my feelings as absurd and childish, with very obvious physiological explanations, yet, in spite of every effort, they gained in strength upon me so that I dreaded the night as a child lost in a forest must dread the approach of darkness.

"The willows can hardly make a noise by themselves, can they?" His answer frightened me, first because I had dreaded it, and secondly, because I knew intuitively it was true.

I dreaded, too, that he would begin about the gods, or the elemental forces, or something else disquieting, and I wanted to keep myself well in hand for what might happen later.

I forgot the shaking of the willows in the windless calm, the humming overhead, everything except that I was waiting for an answer that I dreaded more than I can possibly explain.

But oh, I felt it hard to part; And that long dreaded hour had come, When thou must leave thy childhood's home.

Hast thou come to seek a shelter From the dreaded gath'ring storm?

At first I dreaded to have the door close upon us, feeling that he must perforce seek to take up the thread where he had broken it then.

I dreaded the moment they should end.

The dreaded Cascade Mountains were finally reached.

As soon as the storm spent its force a start was made and the dreaded mountains passed in six days, and without any serious mishap.

Cellini, for example, was poisoned by a parish priest near Florence: yet he never brought the man to justice; and in the case of his own murders, he only dreaded the retaliation of his victims' kinsmen.

Mike at once recognized in one of them the dreaded General Cromwell, whom he had seen at Drogheda.

Mark had adopted a system of diet and a care of his person, that kept him in perfect health, illness being the evil that he most dreaded.

To them the time seemed but a single day; and so completely were they engrossed with each other, and their present happiness, that they almost dreaded the hour of return.

The spear and club were the weapons to be dreaded; and with these the islanders were said to be very expert.

Jacques dreaded only that the windigo might move and destroy the delicate poise of the boat; but she lay very still.

Infamous as was this man's life and character, he was not only cherished and courted by the people of Bushire, who dreaded him, but was courteously received and respectfully entertained whenever he visited the British Factory.

Both vessels now lay to within fifty yards of each other, and a strong hope arose in those on board the Morning Star, that the gentleman who had volunteered to go to the pirate, might, through his exertions, avert, at least, the worst of the dreaded calamity.

But the robbers swarmed thicker and thicker around him, and when the dreaded Paou lay him by the board, without help or hope, the Mandarin killed himself.

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