Menaced

Examples

• Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Then as swords menaced me a command from Xodar stayed the hands of his fellows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned; I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• For whatever sentiment met him in form too facile, his lips menaced, beautifully but surely, caprice and light esteem. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He had in fact, and without knowing it, done what he menaced to do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Naked and unarmed as I was, I had no desire to face the unseen thing which menaced me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The enemy, seeing their left flank and rear menaced, gave way, and were followed by Cruft and Osterhaus. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He menaced rebellion in the name of his counthry, vented bitter hatred against English rule; they spoke of rags, beggary, and pestilence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The vast cities of America, the fertile plains of Hindostan, the crowded abodes of the Chinese, are menaced with utter ruin. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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