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Sentences ending with dreaded

But that one thing I dreaded. [5]
Some of our readers may have seen, in India, a cloud of crows pecking a sick vulture to death--no bad type of what happens in that country as often as fortune deserts one who has been great and dreaded. [5]
Her love is not to be desired, and "--he spoke in a lower tone--"her hate is to be dreaded. [6]
It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded. [6]
Then came--a question I dreaded. [9]
Most of them had gone out, with their families, into that precarious border-land of existence in which the to-morrows are ever dreaded. [9]

Short sentences using dreaded

He dreaded the wrench there. [9]
I dreaded it very seriously. [5]
Venters dreaded the night's vigil. [13]

More example sentences with the word dreaded in them

Evelyn was not yet out, but she was very nearly out, and after the late notoriety Mrs. Mavick dreaded the regular Newport season. [4]
When we parted yesterday, I dreaded his Majesty's anger. [10]
Now that he would learn the actual truth from the most credible eye-witnesses she no longer dreaded even the worst calumny. [10]
At the first words of the coarse song there rushed on him the dreaded thirst. [11]
Fielding was busy with the map at the dreaded moment that hundreds of the villagers appeared upon the bank and rushed the Amenhotep. [11]
Herr Ortlieb's invalid wife could not spare Els, her older daughter and faithful nurse, so he required Eva's obedience, and compelled her to give up her opposition to attending the festival; but she dreaded the vain, worldly gaiety--nay, actually felt a horror of it. [10]
Then the day which had been dreaded came. [10]
The night before when, after her conversation with Els, she began to pray, she had feared that she had fallen into the snare of earthly love, and dreaded the confession which she had to make to her aunt Kunigunde. [10]
He was a well-beloved man in the house of his friends, but sometimes a dreaded one. [5]
My feelings as we entered this may be imagined, for I was suddenly confronted with the situation which I had dreaded since my meeting with Nick at Jonesboro. [9]
With a curse Wassef felt in his vest for his purse, and called to the kavass--the being more dreaded in Egypt than the plague. [11]
Mark Twain, in Washington, was in line for political preferment: His wide acquaintance on the Pacific slope, his new fame and growing popularity, his powerful and dreaded pen, all gave him special distinction at the capital. [5]
He dreaded what was now to be said, but he felt inevitably what it was. [11]
Sure enough, it was just as I had dreaded, he started in to climb the tree----" "What, the bull? [5]
Maria, whose life was certainly not crowded with amusements, dreaded their coming, and when they did call, endured their presence as an unavoidable evil. [10]
Now the school visitors must all be ecclesiastics; and although their power is not to be dreaded in the cities, where teachers, like other citizens, are apt to be liberal, it gives them immense power in the rural districts. [4]
It was not until a week later that the dreaded news came. [9]
This long rain, too, was just the kind of cause which was likely to loosen the strata of rock piled up in the ledges; if the dreaded event should ever come to pass, it would be at such a time. [6]
She had discovered, too, in these intimate days, that he had the Northman's temperament; she both loved and dreaded his moods. [9]
I almost dreaded to hear his tales of the havoc he had wrought on the Union army. [4]
Yet he dreaded to go back to England and face it all: the reproach of his people; the amusement of society; his wife herself. [11]
It was time to get in again, but Barbara dreaded the ride over the rough, crowded highway, and begged her companion to pursue their journey a little farther on foot. [10]
The scales seemed to fall from my eyes, and I realised why the Ueberhells had borne such an evil and dreaded name among their fellow-citizens. [10]
Philip had dreaded to come to the office that morning and encounter the inquisition and perhaps the compliments of his fellow-clerks. [4]
She knew how to broach a dreaded subject. [9]
And not less to be dreaded than monotony from the governmental point of view, is the obliteration of variety in social life and in literary development. [4]
Iberville had dreaded this; but he was to have his chance, for even when Berigord's face lowered most the look- out from the shrouds called down that he sighted two ships. [11]
Fielding had dreaded this, had tried to make preparation for it, had begged of the Government this reform and that--to no purpose. [11]
Now she dreaded this newly recognised sinful part of her own nature, which she had imagined a pure vessel that had room only for what was noble, sacred, and innocent. [10]
How she dreaded this most forlorn of all a teacher's tasks! [6]
Yet she dreaded this meeting with an intensity plainly revealed by the passionate throbbing of her heart and the panting of her weakened lungs. [10]
Gaston had dreaded this hour, though he knew it would come one day. [11]
Diplomatic row between the two countries would be the least dreaded result of it. [4]
Yet she dreaded the solitude which she was approaching, for she now perceived how foolishly she had acted, and with what sinful recklessness she had perhaps forfeited the happiness of her life on this luckless evening. [10]
Virginia flung open the sash and listened for the dreaded sound of drums. [9]
She had turned the night into day, not only to despatch speedily matters which seemed to her to permit of no delay, but even more because, since the battle of Actium, she dreaded the restless hours upon her lonely couch. [10]
How she dreaded the night and its recurrent tears, and the hours when she could not sleep, and waited for the joyless morning, as one lost on the moor, blanched with cold, waits for the sun-rise! [11]
The shipper in the little ship It effects with woe sad might; He does not see the rocky slip, He only regards dreaded height. [5]
Yet she dreaded the great temptation of centring all her thoughts upon this one time, and losing her interest in the smaller hopes and employments of the remaining hours. [14]
We were on the edge of another dreaded summer of siege, the prospect of banishment from the homes we could almost see, staring us in the face, and the labors of the spring lost again. [9]
In the corner the dreaded skeleton of the subject grinned sardonically. [9]
She must wake the dreaded man, the only man who could possibly help her. [10]
He dreaded meeting the Coellos; nothing but honor urged him to present himself to them. [10]
She dreaded what the answer might be-not Jean Jacques' answer, but the answer of Life. [11]
Verily Ursula believed that she had found a sure instrument of vengeance, whereas she had heard say that Junker Henning von Beust was one of the most dreaded swordsmen in the Marches. [10]
It was a terrible shock to us who had vainly hoped to keep him a few years longer, but at least he was spared what he had dreaded with a great dread, a gradual failure of mental or bodily power. [6]
He too had staved off this inevitable hour, had dreaded it, but now his courage shot up high. [11]
She must have speech with him, yet she dreaded the life in his castle, especially as she was forced to acknowledge, that she too was by no means necessary to her father. [10]
Instead of the slights Nun had dreaded, Hosea's gallant bearing, courage and, as he modestly added, good-fortune had gained him promotion, yet he had remained a Hebrew. [10]
He dreaded to show himself in the street, lest he should find Stephen lying in wait for him at the corner. [5]
She felt that she would die if she did not see him soon, and she dreaded his coming. [4]
That evening, as she had dreaded, her grandfather stole away, and did not come back until the night was far spent. [12]
There were only seven gentlemen at dinner besides Mr. Smith, but of these five were critics--men more dreaded in the world of letters than you can conceive. [14]
For Patty was sensitive, like her father, and dreaded a slight. [9]
Eyes are straining, scouts are watching at the back of the hall and in the street, for the first glimpse of the dreaded figure of Mr. Thomas Gaylord. [9]
Not until Lady Schorlin questioned her did Eva confess what troubled her, and how she dreaded the venture which she had undertaken on her own responsibility. [10]
His humor, his satire, and his fearlessness were dreaded weapons. [5]
He dreaded his return, and yet he longed for it. [10]
The dreaded voice repeated that word, and sent a thought that struck terror into her heart: Whence had come the substance of that charity? [9]
Wassef's rage was quiet but effective, for he had whispered to some purpose in the ear of the Mamour as well as in that of the dreaded kavass of conscription. [11]
But he loved quiet and he dreaded mingling with the brawlers of the market-place, whose stock in trade is a voice and a vocabulary. [6]
He dreaded to push an explanation, and, foolish as lovers are, he was wise for once in trusting to time. [4]
Yes, it was plain to me now that there was one spirit there which this dreaded judge could not quell nor make afraid. [5]
It reminds a person of those dentists who secure your instant and breathless interest in a tooth by taking a grip on it with the forceps, and then stand there and drawl through a tedious anecdote before they give the dreaded jerk. [5]
She dreaded the perpetual recourse to such stimulants as change of scene and society, because of the reaction that was sure to follow. [14]
Throughout that long period he has constantly been the most loved and most implicitly followed by friends, and the most dreaded by opponents, of all living American politicians. [7]
A poet on Pegasus, reciting his own verses, is hardly more to be dreaded than a mounted specialist. [6]
He held a package of letters in his tense grasp, and I knew that the dreaded Pacific mail was in. [5]
She had set out to do a thing she dreaded, and it was easier now than it would have been if they had not met. [11]
If she stayed on, this tremendous adventure she longed for and dreaded was inevitable. [9]
He was afraid of any want of clearness, any weakness, in the Mason's arguments; he dreaded not to be able to believe in him. [2]
Thyone, the wife of Alexander the Great's comrade, though absolutely fearless in the presence of human foes, dreaded the thunder by which Zeus announced his anger. [10]
It had been no small matter for the young aristocrat, in the presence of the whole multitude, to enter into a debate with the infamous Philostratus, and how well he had succeeded in silencing the dreaded orator! [10]
She dreaded the mood in which she would leave the banquet. [10]
Sometimes, as his mind went back to the merciless conflict of his past, his experience at the law school, it was the unchaining of that other man he dreaded, the man he believed himself to have finally subdued. [9]
They dreaded to meet Laura; they kept away from the "protracted meetings," but were eager to hear about her and what she said and did. [11]
In this case man is impelled by the same instinctive motive, which made the heroic little American monkey, formerly described, save his keeper, by attacking the great and dreaded baboon. [1]
Mr. Bernard had made up his mind, when he set forth, not to come back before he had examined the dreaded ledge. [6]
She never really loved him, but she never forgot that she was his wife; and she always dreaded his coming back; as well she might, for you see what happened when he did come. [11]
The walls were lined with soldiers, but not one raised his hand to strike--so sudden was the coming of the dreaded hillsman. [11]
These things look like the cautious patting and petting of a spirited horse preparatory to mounting him, when it is dreaded that he may give the rider a fall. [7]
Down on the Levee rich and poor battled for places on the landing-stages, and would have thrown themselves into the flood had there been no boats to save them from the dreaded Dutch. [9]
As he stood leaning against a tree-box by the curb, dragged down once more by that dreaded feeling of detachment, he heard familiar voices close beside him. [9]
As it went jolting through the streets, Nell peeped from the window, curious to see in what kind of place they were, and yet fearful of encountering at every turn the dreaded face of Quilp. [12]
Thus ended Don John's meeting with his mother, which he had dreaded as an inevitable evil. [10]
He dreaded, once in the midst of those disturbing currents, a bungling presentation of the cause which inspired him, and which he knew to be righteousness itself. [9]
Once or twice in midstream the wheels sunk into the yielding sands so threateningly that we half believed we had dreaded and avoided the sea all our lives to be shipwrecked in a "mud-wagon" in the middle of a desert at last. [5]
She attributed immense importance to all her husband's intellectual and abstract interests though she did not understand them, and she always dreaded being a hindrance to him in such matters. [2]
And the dreaded hours actually came--nay, the anguish of uncertainty had become almost unendurable, when, on the seventh day, the Egyptian at last returned from Alexandria. [10]
He dreaded the hour when Madelinette and he should meet again. [11]
He saw that his championship of the doctor's wife in her queer trap might expose him to what he dreaded more than anything in the world--to ridicule; but his instinct urged him on. [2]
That she held him in so much higher esteem than the younger hero, whose return he had dreaded, pleased him, but he had grown grey in the strict fulfilment of duty, and would not deviate from what he considered right. [10]
I recollect, too, her saying how acutely she dreaded a charge of plagiarism, when, after she had written "Jane Eyre;" she read the thrilling effect of the mysterious scream at midnight in Mrs. Marsh's story of the "Deformed. [14]
I dreaded to hear what he had to tell, lest, in spite of my confidence in him, it should really be a thing which, if made public, must bring ruin. [11]
I dreaded lest he should go to the window. [11]
Now, if ever, he must put forth his best powers, and he dreaded failure as an utter catastrophe, for on the face of the whole earth there was no second model to compare with this that stood before him. [10]
In the jousts he had been sure of victory over even dreaded opponents; as a bull-fighter he had excelled the matador; as a skilful participant in riding at the ring, as well as a tireless hunter, he had scarcely found his equal. [10]
In this respect, he dreaded her own future as much as his own. [9]
But she hoped he did not know, and she dreaded the hour when he would speak out of his now full heart. [11]
Her brother had guessed right: the little princess had been crying after dinner and had spoken of her forebodings about her confinement, and how she dreaded it, and had complained of her fate, her father-in-law, and her husband. [2]

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