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Sentences ending with threatened

Not a step would she stir, though Mr. Marmaduke whined and coaxed and threatened. [9]
There came a time again when all the land was threatened. [11]
As I noted these peculiarities, my mind was also with his case; I saw that his life was threatened. [11]
My nurse had taught me that being good meant doing unto others as we would be done by; Cilo cried to me: 'Strike down, that you may not be struck down--away with mercy, if the welfare of the state is threatened! [10]
And I stayed,--I stayed that I might save you if a danger threatened. [9]
Charmian's ignorance and silence in regard to these very matters increased the anxiety of the endangered woman, who saw not only her own life, but those dearest to her, seriously threatened. [10]
They have the sense to see that their privileges are immediately threatened. [9]
Peoples do not rush to arms unless their national existence is threatened. [9]
That the daughter of the Ry of Rys should kiss him was a thing of which he would dream when deeds were done and over and the shadows threatened. [11]
But presently cries of rage and mourning came from the Indians, and weapons threatened. [11]

Short sentences using threatened

I always threatened that. [13]
They threatened his life. [5]
Mine is threatened. [5]

More example sentences with the word threatened in them

No doubt the Young Girl was capricious in setting the little engine at work, but she cut short a good many disquisitions that threatened to be tedious. [6]
And even as you have threatened me, I will warn you, yet not in anger. [9]
In your words you have been kind to me, but yet you have threatened me. [11]
He does not yet know of my purpose, but I am sure that he would help us if a thousand deaths threatened him. [10]
Besides, the judges would be charged with partiality by the tailor and his followers, and to show such visible tokens of favour threatened to prejudice the dignity of the court. [10]
Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
They all gazed with the same dissatisfied and inquiring expression at this stout man in a white hat, who for some unknown reason threatened to trample them under his horse's hoofs. [2]
We are threatened with national annihilation, and defied to use the only means of national preservation. [6]
He threatened her with his ax, as if to warn her not to come further, but she paid no heed, but went steadily on, until she was right in front of him--right under his ax. [5]
The Arab threatened with a knife. [11]
Mark Twain, threatened with a cold, and knowing the dinner would be strenuous, did not feel able to attend, so wrote a letter which, if found suitable, could be read at the gathering. [5]
A young priest whispered to his neighbor, "He is praying--" and Anana noticed with silent anxiety the strong hand of his teacher clutching the manuscript so tightly that the slight material of which it consisted threatened to split. [10]
The curse with which the patriarch had threatened him recurred to his mind; he could have fancied that the hot, stuffy, incense-laden air of the church was full of flapping daws and hideous bats. [10]
The carts from which the noise proceeded belonged to traders from neighboring cities, who preferred to leave their goods in the threatened town, rather than carry them towards the advancing Spaniards. [10]
The guilt for which she was threatened with punishment was by no means small, and even if her earthly judge did not call her to account, she would go to confession to-morrow and honestly perform the penance imposed. [10]
The summer-house of which Mr Quilp had spoken was a rugged wooden box, rotten and bare to see, which overhung the river's mud, and threatened to slide down into it. [12]
He was asked whether Orlando had shown the greater agitation at the Cross Trails or in the town when he threatened Mazarine. [11]
On another occasion, when Bynner had written a poem to Clara Clemens, her father pretended great indignation that the first poem written by Bynner to any one in his household should not be to him, and threatened revenge. [5]
Gopal and myself were then standing at the door of our room, and we both were threatened by Tookaram. [5]
But if it was threatened by any other influence, would not all men say that the best thing that could be done, if we could not or ought not to destroy it, would be at least to keep it from growing any larger? [7]
His sole knowledge was that he had promised, with his hand on his heart, to do everything in his power to prevent what threatened to cause her pain. [10]
But even Barbara was roused from her ecstasy of happiness when she heard of the atrocities that threatened the provinces. [10]
At first he was merely conscious of having gone through a fearful experience, which threatened to fling him far outside the sphere of everything he was wont to reverence and hold sacred. [10]
The young man was intentionally kept in the dark about the greatest danger which threatened the business. [10]
The defiant lad was a noble fellow, after all, and risked his own chance in behalf of one who, if he escaped with him, threatened to bar the way in which, in youthful blindness, he hoped to find happiness. [10]
The buildings looked very insecure, and threatened every moment to float off. [5]
They betray an unmanly terror when I offer them a cigar; they tell lies and hurry away to meet engagements which they have not made when they are threatened with the hospitalities of my box. [5]
In the shops under the Belfry, the great tower from whence the bell summoned the inhabitants when danger threatened, lay plenty of cloth for new doublets. [10]
The British army, twenty-five thousand strong, admirably equipped, and supported by a powerful naval force, threatened to envelop our poor force, and finish the war in a stroke. [4]
Horapollo had foreseen, too, that the danger which threatened the Mukaukas' son would fan Paula's passions like a fresh breeze; and Joanna, frail, ailing Joanna! [10]
The fewer outworks to the citadel of belief, the fewer points there are to be threatened and endangered. [6]
When sleep threatened to overpower her she thought of her mother's last words, especially one phrase, "the forge fire of life," which seemed specially pregnant with meaning. [10]
It was clear to Jowett that, in spite of all, there would be trouble at the Orange funeral, and that the threatened strike would take place at the same time in spite of Ingolby's catastrophe. [11]
Paaker went up to him, and abused him violently, and threatened him with his fist; the priest raised his arms in prayer, just as I saw him yesterday at the festival--but not in devotion, but to seize Paaker, and wrestle with him. [10]
The paper handed to him by the Governor said this: "I assure you that the town of Smolensk is not in the slightest danger as yet and it is unlikely that it will be threatened with any. [2]
I had threatened to go to her, and more than once I started packing.... Three days later I received a brief note in which she managed to convey to me, though tenderly and compassionately, that her decision was unalterable. [9]
The house threatened to give way at any moment: one end of it was sinking, and, in fact, the building looked a mere shell. [5]
It was necessary to enter, but the smoke and dust which filled the air seemed to preclude this, and, besides, a high wall above the cleared space in the building threatened to fall. [10]
All who had to do with Egypt gained except herself, and if she moved in revolt or agony, they threatened her. [11]
How was he to disclose to his mistress what threatened her? [10]
How was he to declare that the very perils which threatened her had made a man of him, with all of a man's yearning to share these perils and shield her from them? [9]
These words from Titian had ennobled his work; they echoed loudly in his soul, and the measure of his bliss threatened to overflow, when no less a personage than the famous Paolo Veronese, invited him to come to his studio as a pupil on Saturday. [10]
Up to this time Dick Venner had not decided on the particular mode and the precise period of relieving himself from the unwarrantable interference which threatened to defeat his plans. [6]
Frau Traut was threatened, too, with another loss. [10]
Torture had been threatened, the fire had been threatened; what was left? [5]
Now Egypt was threatened with the loss of the laborers and builders she so greatly needed, but Rui believed that they might be won back. [10]
When he was threatened with it. [5]
He had been threatened with assassination more than once, and he had got used to the idea of danger; life to him was only a game. [11]
The man thus threatened was Joshua, and his companion in suffering Ephraim, who had been sentenced to share his fate. [10]
Of course I threatened to prosecute him. [4]
The hope which threatened to light again the dead fires in the woman's eyes frightened me. [9]
The crisis which threatened to divide the friends of the Union is past. [7]
The breach that threatened our country's existence is healed now. [9]
He raged and threatened on his way to punishment, but it did no good; he was snatched roughly along by the officers, and got an occasional cuff, besides, for his irreverent conduct. [5]
But Caesar had threatened his mistress's life--he must collect himself, and thus he managed to stammer: "No, lady, no! [10]
And again she threatened him and reproached him. [5]
The dangers that threatened her from afar troubled her but little. [10]
The danger which threatened her aunt and her beloved nuns also increased her excitement. [10]
The Southern leaders threatened disunion if their demands were not complied with. [7]
The danger which threatened Apollodorus and his guests was indeed imminent, and it had been provoked solely by the indignation of the excited mob at seeing the wealthy Israelite's house unadorned for the feast. [10]
But when I thought I had borne about enough of this kind of talk, I threatened to make Harris tramp back to the summit and make a report on that scenery, and this suggestion spiked his battery. [5]
In spite of this, and although his absence threatened to rouse Caesar to fury, and everything pointed to the necessity of his remaining within call, Macrinus, drawn by an irresistible craving, had followed the invitation, which sounded more like a command. [10]
Whereas I--" At this point in Mr. Crewe's remarks the Honourable Jacob Botcher was seized by an appalling coughing fit which threatened to break his arm-chair, probably owing to the fact that he had swallowed something which he had in his mouth the wrong way. [9]
And, in truth, this mighty sovereign, racked by almost unendurable pain, dealt cruelly enough with himself when he compelled his aching knee to bend until consciousness threatened to fail under the excess of agony. [10]
At nine o'clock there was a pull at the bell that threatened to drag the wire out, and an insignificant little urchin appeared with a telegram, which frightened Miss Forsythe, and seemed to Margaret to drop out of heaven. [4]
Only now and then the thought of the sacrifice which the vehement Philip must make for his younger brother, and of the danger which still threatened Alexander, disturbed the cheerful contentment of her soul, rich as it was in glad hopes. [10]
You have resisted them, and have threatened them with their own pistols. [11]
If one of them threatened to sink altogether under his burden, he was refreshed by the whip of one of the horsemen, who accompanied the caravan. [10]
When one of them threatened to leave me in Damascus when I had the cholera, he had no real idea of doing it--I know his passionate nature and the good impulses that underlie it. [5]
When they took their leave they threatened to come back and burn the house over the heads of the family if any report of their doings got to the ears of the authorities. [5]
She could unchain the vengeance which threatened Hermon with a far more terrible danger than the thunder clouds above, under the protection--nay, as it were at the behest of Nemesis. [10]
Away, away from the neighborhood of this net, which threatened to entangle him in murder and every deed of infamy. [10]
Why, then, in the name of that happiness, of the peace and sanity and pleasurable effort it had brought him, had he allowed and even encouraged the advent of a new element that threatened to destroy the equilibrium achieved? [9]
The Marchioness changed the motion of her head, which had not yet left off nodding, and suddenly began to shake it from side to side, with a vehemence which threatened to dislocate her neck. [12]
The courage of the men began to waver immediately; once more we were threatened with a panic. [5]
Besides, how often the leech threatened him with a speedy death if he indulged himself at table with the viands which suited his taste! [10]
He had all the imperiousness of a soldier, and in an altercation with Captain Newport, occasioned by some injurious remarks the latter made about Sir Thomas Smith, the treasurer, he pulled his beard and threatened to hang him. [4]
It was not--until the first faint herald of the morning that Honora could bring herself to pronounce the fateful thing that stood between her and happiness, that threatened to mar the perfection of a heaven-born love --Divorce! [9]
No one knew the Emperor so well as he, and he saw before him the cliffs which threatened to shatter the little ship of this love bond. [10]
Keraunus felt that the dog had threatened him, but at this instant he would have let himself be torn by him without wincing, so completely was he overmastered by the fury born of his injured pride. [10]
This was before the days when the wounded arrived by the thousands, when the zeal of the Southern ladies threatened to throw out of gear the workings of a great system. [9]
Some believed in the Commission's scheme to arbitrarily and permanently confine (and thus deepen) the channel, preserve threatened shores, etc. [5]
Ye have threatened the city and me--take us if ye can. [11]
Champagny called upon the citizens to help themselves, and used their labor in throwing up a wall of defence in the open part of the city, which was most dangerously threatened by the citadel. [10]
We will spare the blushes of the hero of this occasion, who was threatened with suffocation by an inundation from the back seats. [9]
The compression of the belt threatened to suffocate the intrepid fellow; he called to his friends to draw him up, but could not make them hear. [5]
Ours was the tense excitement of primitive man in chase: the quarry which had threatened to elude us was again in view, and not unlikely to fall into our hands. [9]
At the great Techu-festival at Dendera intoxication seems to have been as much commanded as at the festivals of Dionysus under the Ptolemies, one of whom (Ptolemy Dionysus) threatened those who remained sober with the punishment of death. [10]
He appeared to taunt her with her dishonor, he threatened exposure if she did not become again the mistress of his passion. [5]
She would not taste it, and it became necessary to enforce that extreme penalty of the law which had been threatened, but never yet put in execution. [6]
Our commerce was suffering greatly by a few armed vessels built upon and furnished from foreign shores, and we were threatened with such additions from the same quarter as would sweep our trade from the sea and raise our blockade. [7]
The storm and stress period, during which my effervescent youthful spirits led me into all sorts of follies, was the only time in my life in which this close connection threatened to be loosened. [10]
That, however, had stopped at last, for the woman had threatened the Royal Court, and the man, having no wish to face its summary convictions, thereafter conducted himself towards them both with a morose indifference. [11]
Then there were some rambling allusions to a rejected sweetheart, who had threatened to go a soldiering--a final promise of knocking at the door early in the morning--and 'Good night. [12]
Nothing offered for some little time, and then he remembered hearing the doctor tell about a certain thing that laid up a patient for two or three weeks and threatened to make him lose a finger. [5]
Scared as though some imminent horror threatened herself, she clasped Melissa's hand as she listened to the tale of the dangers Alexander had so narrowly escaped. [10]
He could do so in all confidence, for its spasmodic throbbing threatened to suffocate him. [10]
Powhatan, according to Smith, threatened death to his followers if they did not kill Smith. [4]
Eva and her sister would be again mentioned in the investigation, and were even threatened with an examination. [10]
He has been sick and threatened with consumption, but I have not inquired after him lately. [5]

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