Threatening

Examples

• Some sailors being aloft in the main-topsail rigging, the captain had ordered them to race down, threatening the hindmost with the cat-of-nine-tails. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• As Mr. Bumble said this, he put on a grim and threatening look, and added, in a low voice, 'Mind what I told you, you young rascal! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The long-threatening storm is sure to break at last. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There'll shortly be an end of YOU,' said Wegg, threatening it with the hat-box. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The whole garrison turned out under arms and assumed a threatening attitude--yet still we did not fear. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At this hour and by this light it changes into threatening hands raised up and menacing the handsome face with every breath that stirs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Farther west also the troubles were threatening. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• 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.
• Plague came, threatening to destroy at once the aim of the ambitious and the hopes of love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This last manifestation as by far the most alarming, by reason of its threatening his prolonged stay on the premises, necessitated vigorous measures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Might not the acidity, bitte rness, defective flavor, which were threatening the foreign sale of French wines, be owing to ferments? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The shadow attendant on Madame Defarge and her party seemed then to fall, threatening and dark, on both the mother and the child. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Mobile was important to the enemy, and in the absence of a threatening force was guarded by little else than artillery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He sat himself down with a threatening swagger, and said: 'Give me a bottle of wine. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• A threatening, murderous, dangerous fellow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Still, said Darnay, you know how gloomy and threatening the sky is. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Raffles on his side had not the same eagerness for a collision which was implied in Ladislaw's threatening air. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This is the third time of your hinting and threatening. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At the same time, I suspect him of merely attempting to frighten you, by threatening what he cannot really do. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A threatening, murderous, dangerous fellow! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But it always came back to him when alone, and seemed to grow more threatening with years. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The prospect before her now, was threatening to a degree that could not be entirely dispelledthat might not be even partially brightened. Jane Austen. Emma.
• As the whispers became louder, which they did from that time every minute, they became more threatening. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• With passionate exclamation, as if some torture screw were threatening him, he started up and said, It is impossible! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Meanwhile the Persian fleet was on his right flank and between him and Greece, threatening much but accomplishing nothing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Boxers became more and more threatening to the Europeans in China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She put two fingers between the leaves, closed the book upon them, and held it up to her son in a threatening way. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Well, I reckon, was the reply of the other, as he dodged, with some alarm, the threatening honor. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Then Sheridan leaving with two divisions of cavalry, looked indeed threatening, both to Lee's communications and supplies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And then Peter is described as argumenting in a threatening and angrily condition at Judas Iscariot. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Checked by Candy