Lest

Examples

• I was determined not to open my lips, lest my voice should betray me to Berkeley Craven. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Lest any man think I mean to be ill-natured when I talk about our pilgrims as I have been talking, I wish to say in all sincerity that I do not. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I was afraid to put it off till next day (the Friday); being in doubt lest some accident might happen in the interval. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The troubles she has had here have wearied her, said Lydgate, breaking off again, lest he should say too much. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She had felt uneasy, ever since she received her son's letter, lest something should prove to be hidden behind the veil of silence which he had drawn. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I am harassed with the girl, and yet I cannot part with her lest I should get a worse. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• That's why I told him to look out, lest she brought an action against him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Riderhood had looked hard at his hands and his pockets, apparently as a precautionary measure lest he should have any weapon about him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The affected anxiety of the lawgiver, lest they should employ an improper person, is evidently as impertinent as it is oppressive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• After tea he said we should neither of us leave him that evening; he would not let us stray out of his sight, lest we should again get into mischief. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I was in a great fright lest I should lose my supper. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I had been the author of unalterable evils; and I lived in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The anxious terror in which Mr. Hale lived lest his son should be detected and captured, far out-weighed the pleasure he derived from his presence. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Hence I feel a reluctance to approach the subject, lest our aspiration, my dear friend, should turn out to be a dream only. Plato. The Republic.
• This I delivered in a firm tone, like a person who was jealous lest his courage should be called in question. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Let not day look on these lines, lest garish day waste, turn pale, and die. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My dread was lest he should turn his head, and see her too. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He locked the door lest the ladies should surprise him and insist upon knowing what he was doing with these names and coins. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Lydgate was madly anxious about her affection, and jealous lest any other man than himself should win it and ask her to marry him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And now we are near the spot; let us draw in and surround the cover and watch with all our eyes, lest justice should slip away and escape. Plato. The Republic.
• It was as though she knew that her baby was frail and delicate and feared lest the rough hands of her fellows might injure the little thing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But now each seemed fearful lest the fatal moment should pass, while the choice was yet undecided. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I do not say heaven, lest you should fancy that I am playing upon the name ('ourhanoz, orhatoz'). Plato. The Republic.
• First he would accept and live the old Hellenic life, then he would refuse, lest such life should lack the sharp, salt flavor of modern existence. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• As the last officer went down he thought it was time that he returned to his wife lest some members of the crew find her alone below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He whose prisoner thou art scorns to take mean revenge for what is paSt. But beware of the future, lest a worse thing befall thee. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But she sat silent, as if thinking over what he had said, and he grew frightened lest she should answer that she wondered too. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• To-morrow we will see Robert, and be of good cheer; but I will say no more, lest I should begin to cry too. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I had spent days of anxiety lest each morning should bring the report that the enemy had retreated the night before. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She seemed afraid lest some intruder should take a seat she apparently wished to reserve next her own. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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