Threats

Examples

• Kitty, who took all these threats in a serious light, began to cry. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• By dint of alternate threats, promises, and bribes, the lady in question was ultimately prevailed upon to undertake the commission. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For sixteen years he had to resist the reproaches of wife and children, and the threats of neighbors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He had, in truth, gone too far to recede; and yet, in Rowena's present condition, she could not be acted on either by argument or threats. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness; but they confirm me in a resolution of not creating you a companion in vice. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Neither threats nor coaxing could avail: he could not count on any persistent fear nor on any promise. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I do not like these veiled threats. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There are no threats in it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• No threats of torture or death, no bribes, however fabulous, would move him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• To judge by his threats, he would have employed arbitrary, even cruel, means to advance the cause of freedom and equality. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Fanny sighed alone at the window till scolded away by Mrs. Norris's threats of catching cold. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But no pleas, or threats, or promises of reward could move him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Besides, threats were uttered of forcing me to return to bondage. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mere threats, said Meyler. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• As for thy threats, know, holy man, thou speakest to one whose trade it is to find out danger wherever it is to be met with. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Logan was not a man to be coerced into an utterance by threats. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was my husband, by threats and the most savage treatment, forced me to ask for that sum about which I deceived you. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Hers was the only church against which no threats were implied in the Revelations, and the only one which survived. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The gardener, on approaching him, had been hunted out, with oaths and threats, to get the horse and chaise ready instantly. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When it becomes too persistent to be ignored a taboo is erected and threats of fines and condign punishment are made if it doesn't cease to appear. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In spite of the powerful opposition that the company encountered, and the threats of the road trustees and others, the Stockton and Darlington line was opened for travel on September 27, 1825. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Crispin, is there anything in those veiled threats of Caliphronas? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He slunk away with a livid face and two venomous eyes which uttered more threats than his tongue could do. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Little Oliver's blood ran cold, as he listened to the Jew's words, and imperfectly comprehended the dark threats conveyed in them. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Promises of reward and threats of pain are employed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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