Dreading

Examples

• Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Or the leader of a Free Company, answered the Templar, from dreading at the hands of a comrade and friend, the injustice he does to all mankind. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In the Southern States, culture among the negroes is openly deplored, and I do not blame any patriarch for dreading the education of women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I need not say that I had my own reasons for dreading his coming: but come he did at last. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• On this occasion I went, dreading the worst, to his dwelling, to see if I could be of any service to those of his family who might have survived. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Typed by Kate