"Dread" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... intend to bring the charge against me?" asked Dreiner, in a voice husky with either emotion or dread. ...
— Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers • H. Irving Hancock
... scattered like chaff before the wind, looking wild-eyed over their shoulders in dread of the pursuing cannon-ball, dodging in and out among the houses and off ...
— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon
... with their force. The wind, which had gone down so suddenly, sprang up again, buffeting the house as it rushed by with the storm. Grant stood in the whim-room, in the dim light of the lamp turned low, and watched the steady breathing of his little guest with as much anxiety as if some dread disease threatened him. For the first time in his life there came into Grant's consciousness some sense of the price which parents pay in the rearing of little children. He thought of all the hours of sickness, of all the childish hurts and ...
— Dennison Grant - A Novel of To-day • Robert Stead
... But when a man she had cooked breakfast for, had talked with just a few hours ago, lay dead in the bunk-house, she forgot that it was merely an expected incident of Western life. She lay in her bed shaking with nervous dread, and the shrill rasping of the crickets and tree-toads ...
— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower
... looks—a vagueness of gaze, a loose-lipped, too-ready smile, a vacancy of expression. Some there were who scowled sullenly enough, others who sat crouched apart, solitary souls, who, I learned, felt themselves outcast; others again crouched in corners haunted by the dread of a pursuing ...
— Great Britain at War • Jeffery Farnol
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