I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. From LearnThat.org. [Nancy Astor (1879-1964), English politician, first woman member of the House of Parliament.]
Though through the night I quake in dread of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
And hung my head in dread and would have hid my love. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Book of Favorite Songs] Reference
To-day I am all unnerved; an indefinable dread is on me. From Wordnik.com. [Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol] Reference
Our dread is to guard your poise, and to avoid intruding. From Wordnik.com. ["HIgh above the mountain, an eagle calling down..."] Reference
My dread is that the thought police will not be far behind. From Wordnik.com. [An Ex Traffic Biker Writes: « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Overall, the sense of dread is far too overdone for my taste. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Salon: Breakheart Hill] Reference
Then the Master, stalking forward where the murderer shrinks in dread. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of Magellan] Reference
She stared across the lake with what was almost an expression of dread. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodstream] Reference
– All that I dread is that apathy which philosophers call tranquillity. From Wordnik.com. [Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification] Reference
While the seamen, pointing fingers, shrink in dread, and cry, 'Turn back!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of Magellan] Reference
We have depended too entirely on man when we have been in dread of our enemies. From Wordnik.com. [God Seen Above All National Calamities] Reference
What in most mills has been a day of outrage and dread, is with us quite a festival. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
They were in dread of the question: "How could you be content a whole season without light?". From Wordnik.com. [The Breakfast of the Birds, and Other Stories] Reference
Perhaps the level of dread is too much for them but the big picture is ugly and must be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
My mother was moving quickly, her mouth set in a thin, straight line, an expression of dread. From Wordnik.com. [The Dirty Life] Reference
A thoughtless fellow is a man who has not yet found the word dread in the dictionary of his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Moreover he was in dread that if he persisted in his disagreement OBrien would twist the dial again. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-Four] Reference
She could be intensely cold-hearted towards enemies, and her children lived in dread of disappointing her. From Wordnik.com. [Cocotte of the Week: Nancy Astor | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
I was in dread that it would disappear altogether and the little officer would grow tired of trying to listen to me. From Wordnik.com. [Homage to Catalonia] Reference
The shipments of treasure from San Francisco are smaller than usual, forwarders being in dread of Southern privateers. From Wordnik.com. [The Civil War in America] Reference
They were in dread of the question: "How could you be content to desert your birthplace and to forsake your nests in the woodland?". From Wordnik.com. [The Breakfast of the Birds, and Other Stories] Reference
I loved the passage when you talk about your long-term dread (that I completely share) of photography -- since you were a child, i.e. From Wordnik.com. [Bookslut] Reference
But his dread was the nights when he could not sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
The hairs on the backs of her arms stood up in dread. From Wordnik.com. [The Grace of the Foolish « A Fly in Amber] Reference
(Nagging dread is one of the fundamental forces of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [December 5th, 2007] Reference
I recall a dread about the team's prospect for post season hopes. From Wordnik.com. [Mets Merized Online] Reference
Our intermittent ague, known as dread of invasion, was over the land. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
Then, when our dread was the greatest, crashed into safety and peace. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of a Cheechako] Reference
And how exactly would one surprise dread, which is itself an emotion?. From Wordnik.com. [All articles at Blogcritics] Reference
His eyes sank deeper, and he began to stare at the ceiling, shriveled in dread. From Wordnik.com. [Tell Them, Please Tell Them] Reference
The dread was a real and oppressive one, such as we cannot possibly realize to-day!. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
Quoth the old woman, “Come, write him a letter; it may be he will desist in dread.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
But my father soon came to know, and cursed me bitterly, calling the dread Erinyes to witness. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad] Reference
Eyebright had plenty of time to recall her dread of Mrs. Joyce as they drove up from the station. From Wordnik.com. [Eyebright A Story] Reference
This same kind of dread infuses Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead.". From Wordnik.com. [Three Family Secrets We Can't Keep] Reference
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