Dreaded

Examples

• He dreaded to hear that something had been said to Mary--he felt as if he were listening to a threat rather than a warning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I don't know what I thought, or what I dreaded. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I had dreaded this from the firSt. I would have prevented it, if she had allowed me the smallest chance of doing so. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Again, the dreaded Sunday comes round, and I file into the old pew first, like a guarded captive brought to a condemned service. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Yet I dreaded to witness the anguish which my resolve might excite in Idris. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• All he feared and dreaded was that the vile jargon should come to him by itself, in spite of all he could do to prevent it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Till he was bled to death, and then he dreaded her more than anything. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But it may be questioned whether inertia is not equally to be dreaded with active ill-will. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She wept over her little girl; she looked, she spoke, as if she dreaded the occurrence of some frightful calamity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He was the father-in-law of Hasdrubal and the father of a boy Hannibal, destined to be the most dreaded enemy that ever scared the Roman Senate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As yet I had not thought; I had only listened, watched, dreaded; now I regained the faculty of reflection. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She feared to lose sight of him; yet she dreaded to remark any change in the temper of his mind. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He nodded assent, and pulled out his thief-dreaded watch, and asked me where I was going to dine? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It was the dreaded voice of the earthquake, as they knew only too well; and, with a sudden impulse, all turned to fly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She could not be complying, she dreaded being quarrelsome; her heroism reached only to silence. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I dreaded to behold this monster; but I feared still more that Henry should see him. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And she dreaded contact, it was almost unnatural to her at these times. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The thought terrified her--she dreaded to fall from the height of her last moment with Lawrence Selden. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And a dreaded day it was on his part, and a very unwelcome day when it came and they went down to Hampton Court together. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But he dreaded to contemplate Thomasin wedded to the mere corpse of a lover that he now felt himself to be. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She dreaded lest she should learn to be insensible of it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He could not promise to shield her from the dreaded wretchedness, for he could see no sure means of doing so. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Edison's standpoint to-day is that an evil to be dreaded in manufacture is that of over-standardization, and that as soon as an article is perfect that is the time to begin improving it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Distrust, the very feeling I dreaded, appeared in Hannah's face. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The magistrates of the district must have dreaded him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Zoe also was weeping bitterly, as she had just parted from Dick, and dreaded lest she should never see him again. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Perdita dreaded a fall from his horse, or some similar accident--till the woman's answers woke other fears. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Either his furlough was up, or he dreaded to meet any witnesses of his Waterloo flight. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But what she dreaded most of all was having to pass the chemist's at the corner of Sixth Avenue. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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