"Dreaded" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... us of pastures wide and green, To be sought past the sunset's glow; Of rifts in the ranges by opal lit; And gold 'neath the river's flow. And thirst and hunger were banished words When they spoke of that unknown West; No drought they dreaded, no flood they feared, Where ...
— An Anthology of Australian Verse • Bertram Stevens
... magistrate whom they honored with such unbounded confidence. [100] His appointments were suitable to his dignity; [101] and if avarice was his ruling passion, he enjoyed frequent opportunities of collecting a rich harvest of fees, of presents, and of perquisites. Though the emperors no longer dreaded the ambition of their praefects, they were attentive to counterbalance the power of this great office by the uncertainty and shortness of its ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon
... and arrow and the spear. The bow and arrow are small and insignificant in appearance, and would be of little value but for the poison which the Pygmies have somehow learned how to obtain, and which makes them dreaded, not only by beasts, but by men. Wherever found, from the deserts of the south to the forest of the Welle and Aruwimi on the north, the poisoned arrow is a mark of affinity as decided in its way as their physical ...
— Man And His Ancestor - A Study In Evolution • Charles Morris
... old, likewise, greatly dreaded the hate and the wrath of the gods he himself created: a weakness which left little to choose ...
— The Original Fables of La Fontaine - Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney • Jean de la Fontaine
... You commanded me to write you respecting Miss Wharton, and I obey. But I cannot describe to you the surprising change which she has undergone. Her vivacity has certainly forsaken her; and she has actually become, what she once dreaded above all things, a recluse. She flies from company as eagerly as she formerly sought it; her mamma is exceedingly distressed by the settled melancholy which appears in her darling child; but neither of us think it best to mention the ...
— The Coquette - The History of Eliza Wharton • Hannah Webster Foster
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