Threat

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.
• It took the form of a threat. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Trot, my dear, a vain threat! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She told it all every word without a threat, without a murmur--she did--did she not? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• And she worked there one day, as we have described, to show how perfectly she scorned the threat. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Usually her welcome was a reprimand or a threat. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Meyler, having, tried every other argument to induce me to leave Charmouth and Lord Worcester, now ventured on a threat! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The threat is qualified. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Meanwhile the last moments of the performance seemed to gain an added brightness from the hovering threat of the curtain. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• You mean the threat in her husband's letter? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Twice they actually marched right out of Rome, threatening to make a new city higher up the Tiber, and twice this threat proved conclusive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Under a threat? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But one monarch in the world was alive to the threat of the new power that lay in the hands of Cyrus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A worse threat than was conveyed in his manner of uttering the name, could hardly have escaped him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If the monster executed his threat, death was inevitable; yet, again, I considered whether my marriage would hasten my fate. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• 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.

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