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James lounged outside the cafeteria, waiting for his potential accomplice with a strange mixture of dread and anxiousness.
Not because they drink water, but because the state of mind which makes them dread alcohol is unpropitious to the hatching of any generous idea.
Cutting it back is a necessary but bothersome task which I dread each year.
Tomorrow's buff body loses out to the dread of today's workout, and a reduced risk of cancer is obscured by the pleasure of a cigarette.
It is to be distinguished from his dread of a stagnant and spiritless despotism.
I dread to think what would have happened if she hadn't had us looking out for her.
I dread to think of the combined calorific value of the assorted boxes of goodies that are currently residing in The Coven Lounge.
The party surely dread the kind of obstructionism they themselves practiced during the last Congress.
They all seemed to be omens to me, harbingers of misfortune, only multiplying the dread I was beginning to feel already for Monday.
Each time she was to perform, Lynn suffered such dread that she was always too sick to go on.
So how do you turn that feeling as the bank statement drops on your doormat from one of dread to joy?
Even his intimate friends in the literary circuit dread the occasional outbursts which reflect his cynical humour and contempt for hypocrites.
They wanted a fighter that could catch and destroy the dread Stuka, even when the bomber was in its infamous dive.
Even worse they dread outraged parents arriving at the school to make a fuss.
A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
Drawing closer, she noticed with a growing sense of dread the open doors, swinging back and forth in the gusts of bitter wind.
His touches are average dark ambient and he palliates what could otherwise be the sound of dread and belligerence.
When the principal told her that he was going to call her parents, a feeling of dread surged in her.
My conscience is clear, but I now dread having anything to do with reporting anything to the authorities.
Her dread is so great that at the end of her progress she does not even allow his name to pass her lips and uses periphrases to talk of him.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The culminating fear, however, the quintessence of dread, is the fear of having a fear, the dread of a dread, or phobophobia.
And to this moment, no rushing river is half so ministrant to dread as is a still, dull hogshead, where insects float and fly.
I come because it was you whom Zeus sent to watch over Cadmus and Harmonia when their dread and comfortable change came over them.
But for my dread of a mixed metaphor I would add that they are moth-eaten and threadbare.
Bareheaded and ungirt, the candidate is conducted before the dread tribunal.
With a feeling of dread for which I could not account, I hastened to peruse it.
The reason for this is the dread with which they regard the menstrual period of women.
Dawned a day of mighty slaughter and of dread and deathful war, Ancient Bhishma, in his anger drove once more his sounding car!
It was with inward dread that the little family watched its head start off again, after a few weeks' stay in town.
It was a dread of the abyss, the dread of the crags which seemed to nod upon me.
I also shot a crow that evening, but was in great dread that the natives would come and deprive me of the nardoo.
He has a positive dread of bunking with an absolute stranger and he says you made him a conditional promise.
The dread of want in a country destitute of natural resource is ever peculiarly terrible.
He studied them intently, a horrible dread in his heart as he searched for that goblined hoof that inturned.
Our fleabane is a troublesome weed at times, but good husbandry has little to dread from it.
For years he and his designs had been subjects of suspicion and dread at holyrood.
He stalks amongst them as, in the night, the dread and awful lion of Numidia.
For the first time she cast a look of dread into the vistaed shadows of the fir trees.
Could he but obliterate as completely the dread reckoning of another world!
As they recovered from the effects of his bodement, the people left the theatre, their minds full of indefinite dread.
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