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Sentence Examples Such men must be honoured and respected, lest chaos engulf the navel of the world yet again. I refuse to talk about my abortive attempt at qualifying for the Hanley Cup lest I depress myself even more. Medieval monastics sought to abstain from enjoying daily life, lest they prefer it to God. This is not a point I like to ponder too much, lest it tip the mental balance. His son should better be advised to deal with the despot carefully lest it becomes the jinx of both father and son. Adjusting his grip on the controls, he began to veer away from the colony, lest he be detected by their radar. We should take his message more seriously, lest we continue to reap the whirlwind of a church increasingly divided around its sacred table. The lady in question is a Carlow Town native who wishes to remain anonymous lest her imminent reapplication for the medical card be jeopardised. Black's plan is obviously to advance his kingside pawns, but he must do this carefully lest he weakens his king. Be advised to carry loose coins lest you incur the wrath of a taxi driver who does not have enough change. Check labels on garments and other textile items and never dry with heat those items which warn against such drying lest a fire start. The Doctors fear Georgie shall be our only son, but do not say that to Anne, lest she box your ears. Those in attendance are asked not to look directly at the panelists, lest you disturb the mood. They are sent to sleep on the streets at night, lest they disturb the mother's business. They usually prefer to keep their goals as vague as possible lest it count against them at the next election. As to this it is necessary to avoid misapprehension lest the protection be too limited. The economy suffers, as my sisters and brothers fear going to work lest they find a bullet in their mailbox. When she was a couple of feet still from the bed she stopped, afraid to go on lest her fears came true. Portia immediately fell in love with him and feared lest he should choose the wrong box. If I had been less cautious I might have been more wise, but I was half crazy with fear lest you should learn the truth. Show More Sentences First, he explains his political position lest anyone accuse him of being a lickspittle of the aristocracy. Another Anzac Day has passed, but lest we forget will be with us throughout the year. Galileo was forced to repudiate his scientific knowledge lest he be declared a heretic by the official church. You must follow a strict procedure when you log out of the network and pull out the card, lest you have to reboot to reconnect. Granny would draw the curtains lest the neighbours should spot us playing rummy in her front room. Let's make that clear to our audience, lest they go running off and assassinate him in the courtroom. Where Nira and Honey had gotten such expensive things, she never asked, lest she madden them. But American reporters are studiously averting their eyes, lest they stumble over a story. Hurry, Vicky, we shall make haste lest the guards be alerted of our taking leave. You launch circus clowns from a teeter-totter, pop colorful balloons and catch the poor flying fellows, lest they be ill-affected by gravity. Web operations were separated into stand-alone divisions, lest they be dragged down by their association with old ink-on-paper companies. Little Maddie had to be rescued from her mother's thrashing lest she be injured. Some visions are so audacious, they can be expressed only as ironic jokes, lest the speaker be accused of pomposity or megalomania. But lest you go getting any notions that we're being sold an old disorder with a new name and a brand-new bill of goods, think again. He can't come across as the bad news bear, lest people decide they don't want to listen to doomsday prophesies for the next four years. So, fearing lest a worse thing should bechance him, from Abbeville he went up to Paris. Singaporeans have deliberately tried to suppress their ethnic Chinese cultural characteristics lest they provoke a counter-reaction from Muslims. At the entrance, fans without tickets pleaded for spares, but apologetically, lest they be mistaken for touts and beaten to death. It is true that authorities feared he was a potential leader of a millennial revolt and they treated him leniently lest he become a martyr. His lordship was careful to supply a sheath for each blade, lest anyone suspect he was inciting their use. Show More Sentences The British colonial government had built it as a watch-station, lest anyone should try to break the government monopoly by mining his own salt. So lest you be caught short before the Brazil game here are the words to the second verse in all their glory. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. I decide not to bring the subject up, lest we choke on our chocolate truffles. Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day. Should tide you over until the flag is unfurled over Ibrox, for lest we forget, Glasgow Rangers are Champions! Thus, he is unafraid to absorb untested and unproven philosophies lest they can provide a vital edge. When an unrighteous person brings you news, look carefully into it, lest you harm someone and be sorry for what you have done. But that's enough of that lest I be accused of a bout of Short Man's Syndrome or some such. And from what I know of his father, they'd not have wanted to spread their net too wide, lest he realize they were about. But lest I be accused of favoring nuclear war, please take note that the consequences of nuclear war would be horrendous, nuclear winter or no. They just find some non-issues to attack each other with, lest the voters get confused as to who is who. Speculation abounds, of the sort we dare not put down on paper lest we be accused of inciting unrest. His recent cuttings files have, lest we forget, taken in two splurges of coverage that only heightened the sense of smouldering hostility. I don't want to get into too many details here, lest I spoil the experience for you. Due to the volatility of the situation, managers tend to withdraw power from the working levels lest local autonomy causes dissonance. And lest we forget, Saints, by definition, have the means to perform miracles in times of need. People need to devise their own ways of controlling and correcting their youth lest they become the cancer of the community. As the straight drives cannonaded off Ranji's bat, father stopped bowling lest he get hurt! Dining facilities were established in an aircraft hangar and in lest tents. Show More Sentences And there was nothing else he could do, he cracks, lest he sound too spiritual. He explained, in all good humour, that he refrained from taking the title assumed by his father lest haply he should besmirch it. The former European heavyweight boxing champion wears his championship medals round his neck, lest anyone should forget. They laughed with their friends as if they had all the time in the world, but still watched the clock cautiously, lest they miss their bus. Milo had his eyes screwed shut in pain, jaw clamped tight shut lest he cried out. The Church must be watchful lest false teachers worm their way into the fellowship and spread damnable heresies. Mr. Kanthan does not want to discuss the script lest somebody hijacks it and makes the movie. All I add is a note of caution, lest those who now mock become overconfident and leave themselves open to having the tables turned. You let the phone ring twice before answering, lest you appear overly eager. He decides to censor it and to supervise the author, watching out for further subversiveness lest it become necessary to deport him to an island. Investor are now much more circumspect and vigilant, lest more wool is pulled over their eyes by yet another old goat. I must put away this lovely diary posthaste, lest someone perchance read it and learn of my secret identity! Those perpetrators are hereby sentenced to remain a thousand yards away from any computer equipment, lest they be apprehended on sight. Do not permit them to return or think of returning again to the place which they so impiously and sacrilegiously destroyed, lest worse may come. Perhaps we should go elsewhere, lest our being here together be seen as improper. And there is an acknowledgement that the truly big occasions must be savoured to the full lest they never come to pass again. But lest anyone think I give succour to the nationalists by talk of national futures, let there be no such fatuous interpretation. Yes, we should all live within our budget, even government, lest we all become indentured servants. Our landlord had neglected to provide screens, and I was unable to open the windows, lest flies infest the house. You cannot just start writing down truisms, lest you end up writing prose, so how do you start poetically? Show More Sentences Radio 4's roots are firmly planted in the rich tradition of British post-punk, lest anyone forget. Willpower he was not acquainted with, lest he would have divagated from his fated path long ago. Drivers are extra cautious along that particular stretch of the national highway, lest any cattle should cross the road. Beware brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of untrust, in departing from the living God. After the escape the general area had been cordoned off and the regular guards were forbidden to explore the place lest they discover the scene of the crime. Terrified lest his secret be made public, and turn him into an object of scorn, he managed to sublimate these fears and transform them into the stuff of comedy. While I'm dishing out the demerits, lest you think it was all distaff damage, know that my father went through a rather extraordinary ice-cream phase. The goal should not be to terrify the bejesus out of the public, lest they scrunch their noses and give up. Every interaction with her was fraught lest she would throw a sulk or sink into a pout. So does this mean I should deinstall any streaming-video software from my laptop before I visit the UK, lest I be charged the TV license fee while going through customs? Aries Coming out of an info-gathering phase, you must put down emotional roots lest you get lost in spinning thoughts. Nowadays many would prefer to forget it, lest its memory serve as a reproach against those who were witting or unwitting apologists for appeasement. Romney must also take care not to reverse himself on anything at all, lest he revive questions about his trustworthiness. While we recognize the relativity of any system of beliefs, we do not want to give up on them all, lest we give up on the hope of changing the world. Tactfully, she suggested to the editors at OUP that they make the necessary emendation silently lest the shock of being faulted be too much for my superannuated frame. Deliverymen were asked not to ring the doorbell lest the noise disturb him. Even the president's natural supporters were caught on the hop, leaving them little choice but to ride the negative wave of public reaction lest they drown in it. And lest we forget, in this issue we mark Remembrance Day with a salute to the Victoria Cross and that select band of brave men who have won this highest of military honours. Remind me never to bring you cupcakes lest you request a lap dance. And lest the anacronyms escape you, what they really mean is an average data speed of 400-700 kbps and peaks of 2 Mbps when accessing the content and services. Show More Sentences She also did advanced medical training, practising stitches on raw chicken legs lest she be called upon to perform an emergency operation on board. Toeing the government line has allowed film-makers to avoid revealing the humanity of their subjects, lest a breath of truth threaten the house of cards that is the drug war. And, lest we forget, Gonzaga, which is currently ranked sixth and looking like a Final Four team, plays not in a power league but in the West Coast Conference. When morning comes and the street sweepers clean the gutters, they are sometimes followed by vacuum trucks, lest the runoff contaminate the storm drains. I grasped the bar tightly in my fists lest I flew off by accident. Initially, most Afghan warlords regarded the Special Forces merely as paymasters, and were reluctant to let them go to the front lest they be injured or killed. I'm a bit worried about posting this, lest it is not taken as it is meant. The Navy ships remained off shore lest anyone be lulled into forgetting how many were still in need. And lest we forget, it would be more than munching rice cakes and protein shakes in Chappaqua. This, lest we forget, remains the modern prototype for a quintessentially retrograde act. Her experiences as wife to the degenerate Glyde are held back from the respectable reader, lest they offend like undraped piano legs in the drawing-room. But when you try to oust the queen, you better be successful, lest she decides to relegate you to oblivion. Most of the damage has now been repaired, but the boat was still without lifelines so caution was required when moving around lest we ended up going for a premature swim! Everyone should watch what they say lest their offhand remarks be twisted and damage the company. To me it's about middle-management types not being able to let go and trust a professional to do what they can't, lest redundancy of their job be revealed. This time around, when he came to New York in September, he refrained from making a prediction, lest he be wrong again. Fearful lest curiosity might tempt me to open it, I had never even looked at it in book-stores. He was clearly a little hesitant about sharing his history with anyone for that matter, and she shouldn't interrupt the flow of his words lest it should ebb. It's not like boarding a plane where we expect to queue for hours in advance and have all our darkest recesses searched lest we have even a nail file stashed away somewhere. By the same token, you are urged to keep mum more than usual, lest you enter overpromising or overcritical territory. Show More Sentences But beware the weather and make sure your navigation is up to scratch lest you be led astray, for this is wild country and the consequences can be serious. Old people with a pension fund, widows, and the wardens of orphans must invest their money into the financial markets, lest its purchasing power evaporate under their noses. Similarly, it is customary to write Yehudah with an aleph rather than a final hey, lest one accidentally leave out the letter dalet and write the Tetragrammaton. You are gradually trained how to use some of the more advanced items lest you accidentally kill yourself trying to tart yourself up in the mirror. Kids with less powerful squirt guns lobby parents and grandparents for more expensive, more powerful squirters, lest they be too weak to play the game. I should probably be more careful of my disjunctive anecdotes in class, lest any inferences between the story and the actual topic at hand are accidentally made. Oddly, an ad that threatens other people to stop drinking milk lest their kid end up like my kid just sorta rubs me the wrong way. Does it become impossible to mention the historic crimes of Ustashe thugs lest law-abiding Croats take offense? Now come, you've hardly made a dent in those wonderful sandwiches I made, and there's a plateful of cookies that need to be eaten lest they go to waste. And lest we think models are just bony arms and pretty faces, they frequently assure us that they are really, truly intelligent. The real ones are far worse but I dare not mention them lest their owners or fans of the owners come around one night and burn my house down or poison my dog. Respect someone for the quality of their beliefs, their content, not the quantity with which they're held, lest cruel irrationalism become valued for its very excesses. Avoid thinking aloud lest others are tempted to throttle you. Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me. And lest we rely on another bit of common wisdom, reverse psychology is not particularly effective either. For example, at common law, accused people could not testify on their own behalf, lest they be tempted into oathbreaking, and thus damnation. His opponents say he must be removed from office lest he turn Venezuela into a Cuban-style communist state. The minister who launched the beach-cleaning up event warned against risks of water pollution lest that the sea turns into a huge dumping pit. Mariological devotion is strongly emphasized, lest any channel-surfing Protestants think that they've found TBN or the Family Channel. Asking us to forever hold our tongues lest we awake their deeper demons infantilizes and neuters us and makes politicians no safer. Show More Sentences The cops suspended the high-speed pursuit lest some innocent be killed. He began to fear lest he should be obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the property deposited with him. He walked on and on through illlit streets, fearing to stand still for a moment lest it might seem that he held back from what awaited him. One, with long hanging pips, was trying to edge the other, a leansome male, lest there should be the possibility of a gift. The walker held with a death grip to his stick lest he drop it down the hill. His Body was found almost naked in the field, for his Purple Robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him, unwilling to be found. I am tired of these duck-footed Leydeners, who daren't wink at a donkey lest he should bray. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For all my other servants I solicit the wages due them, and a year more, lest they be unprovided for. Locke argues that a country should seek a favourable balance of trade, lest it fall behind other countries and suffer a loss in its trade. Britain was anxious lest it lose efficient access to the remains of its empire. I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me. In 1741 guardians were appointed to take care of his affairs and watch lest in his outbursts of violence he should do himself harm. Tell the toaster oven you love and appreciate it, then have at it with a nail bat while it sleeps lest it sway the eggbeater and blender its way. A lord not only had greater ability, but also needed to take greater steps to preserve their honour, lest they lose their lordship. So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. But still, if he finds himself in bad health, or is afraid lest he should die here, his will be done. Even with the less invasive mints, care should be taken when mixing any mint with any other plants, lest the mint take over. It must be removed at once, lest it disturb the young and arouse in adults the most prurient thoughts. Do not wear pants that are ill-fitting lest I see the outlines of your disgusting rape-tool. Show More Sentences Yesterday night, my mom told me to stop playing video games, lest I become a killer. Such prejudiced stupidity really rustled my jimmies. Giue me my heart...O giue it me lest thy hard heart do steele it, And being steeld, soft sighes can neuer graue it. Be cautious talking about religion or politics, lest you touch off an argument. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. I write to-night lest my delay appear tedious to the dear and deserving object of my most undissembled love. And lest you be deceived, primary elections are no partisan monopoly. He knowing that the children should not be his, when he went in to his brother's wife, spilled his seed upon the ground, lest children should be born in his brother's name. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. As a result of this incident, other residents living in the building are now refusing to baby-sit children lest they be slapped with a similar fine. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For many years the prevailing wisdom was retrievers ought to have their dewclaws removed, lest they become snagged on debris en route to a downed mallard. And lest Greenaway be accused of mellowing, he also includes a paraplegic who enjoys an intimate relationship with a pig and a mysterious legless woman, Giulietta. Achilles relents and lends Patroclus his armor, but sends him off with a stern admonition not to pursue the Trojans, lest he take Achilles' glory. I'm afraid to watch on my own lest I fall off the gap in the hedge, my hiding place, onto the playing field, and I don't like the stinging nettles. Petrol and everyday necessities remain in short supply and Egyptian security forces have demolished homes and businesses close to the frontier lest they be used by tunnellers. But the fact that Sines was awarded by the king provoked Lencastre to refuse out of principle, lest it encourage the king to make other donations of the Order's properties. Speakeasies were the underground watering holes that got their name because they were not to be mentioned loudly, lest the Bureau of Prohibition found out. We mention this observation, not with any view of pretending to account for so odd a behaviour, but lest some critic should hereafter plume himself on discovering it. Some political activists were apprehensive lest the amalgamation of jurisdictive and executive powers should revive or induce authoritarian practices. Do not content yourselves with meer Words and Names, lest your laboured Improvements only amass a heap of unintelligible Phrases, and you feed upon Husks instead of Kernels. Show More Sentences They feared lest passing souls, which had just quitted the bodies of dying people, should enter their huts and carry off the souls of the inmates to deadland. Consequently, in April 1955 a request was sent to the Admiralty to seize the island and declare UK sovereignty lest it become an outpost for foreign observers. And, in enforcing monoculturalism, China is also attempting to cover up the cleavages within the Han majority, lest the historical north-south fault lines resurface. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. When a workpiece is supported in this manner, less force may be applied to the workpiece, via tools, at a right angle to the axis of rotation, lest the workpiece rip free. And lest by her long talke she should be found to trip or faile in her words, she filled their laps with gold, silver, and Jewels, and commanded Zephyrus to carry them away. Thrash not Wheat to keep untill March, lest it prove foisty. O freeze my soul in fitful sleep lest wind-filled sprites bequim the air and take us singly or in threes in mad agog or lumpsome nub, aghast to Milford Haven. Lest we are misunderstood, we are not saying the gesture to shelter refugees is a bad one. Lest any reader miss the point, a depiction of the bifacial god appears throughout the book. Lest I give the impression that only early works suffer from the shortness of critical memory, let us look briefly at a more recent work. Lest a day looking at old buildings and ruins is too dry, head in the evening for the bright lights of Pera. Lest all this appears to be a matter of course, it is important to strike a note of extreme caution. Lest this seem like the predictable rhetoric of those in high dudgeon, consider the undertones. Entitled Lest We Forget, the book omits to mention how the ruination came about in the first place. Lest the Gods of Indie strike me down, I have a confession to make that could well ruin the few hip credentials in my possession. Lest they should run aground, depths were determined by tossing a line weighted with lead, forward of the ship. Lest I be crucified by fans of the series, I get why his character is that way. Lest you think this petty criticism, take a gander at the much more informative Los Angeles Times story generated by the same press conference. Lest anyone think his is a luvvie's philosophy, a charter for air kissers, then think again. Show More Sentences Lest that sound altogether woolly, I'll try and explain what I mean by this. Lest anyone think I am a Lib, I was an ALP member expelled from the party some years ago. Lest I be further accused of being sanctimonious or self-righteous, I confess I am no model of student participation. Lest you forget our planet has a molten core, this volatile Italian isle will set you straight. Lest her little monster fans worry, as she stepped on stage, her derriere did not appear to have been impaled. Lest you think GWS is a snooty Philistine, I'll share that I'm a great lover of old English villages and towns. Lest you think me completely off my rocker, I should explain that I'm judging this movie as what it is, a kids' movie. Lest we forget, the Republican candidate in 2012 with the keenest interest in technology was Texas Governor Rick Perry. Lest you think I don't like anything girly, I misted up during the Girlmore Girls last night, and right now I'm watching America's Next Top Model. Lest anyone glimpse a toe beneath the floor-length robe, she wore thick black stockings under her sandals. Lest the conceptualists feel overlooked, I should mention Les Leveque's 2 Spellbound, an eight-minute version of Hitchcock's feature film Spellbound. Lest we get the impression that Canadian Yachters were exclusively privileged, Evans implies this was only the tip of the iceberg. Lest you start to think the bow is for Sunday drivers, remember 308 fps IBO is still very good performance. Lest anyone find her treasure, she tore the map asunder and cast its pieces into the wind. Lest these colours should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light. Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life. Lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies, their penates and patronal god might be called forth by charms and incantations. In 2008, to mark the 20th anniversary of the disaster, a stage play, Lest We Forget was commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts and written by playwright Mike Gibb. Lest Rockwellian nostalgia blur reality, segregation of the races was the law and my earliest recollections of its sinister consequences remain strong to this day. Lest we forget, America's first nuclear war plan, adopted in 1948 and codenamed Halfmoon, called for 133 atomic bombs to be dropped on the Soviet Union. Show More Sentences We at time of year Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit trees, Lest, being overproud in sap and blood, With too much riches it confound itself. Lest you think I am being liverish, I am not alone in my concerns. Lest there be any confusion, let me stress here that the clause of an inferential corresponds to the focus, not the clause, of a canonical cleft sentence. Examples from Classical Literature And lest any of you ladies should misinterpret my motives, I assure you frankly at the outset of our association, that I am a philogynist. They dared not trust themselves within the power of our troops, lest they should be reconsigned to slavery. He was afraid to seek employment as a calker, lest spies from his master should be on the watch for him. Another maxim was, to keep Jemima ignorant of her own capacity, lest she should set up for a genius, and be undomesticated. It was necessary that something be done lest he should overtop all other flowers. Thayr surnames be putto lest any man hereafter shuld vsurpe any D iiij.cause of thayr prayse. The hj must not scratch himself, lest vermin be destroyed, or a hair be uprooted. Yet they took no active measures in that way, lest they might have cause to regret it. By this tale ye may se that one ought to take hede how he rebukyth an other lest it Torne moste to his owne rebuke. But lest some should misinterpret these remarks, I will add that there must be grace at heart. The ostrich fern does so well under cultivation that there is danger lest it crowd out its less aggressive neighbors. I say, believe this, and you will make haste to give while you may, lest your opportunity should overslip you. Our great fear was lest we should find the gates of Piacenza closed on our arrival. La Signorina did not reply, preferring to hold her tongue, lest it overthrow her. I would if I were you, and quickly, lest you horrify some one else with it. The child did not quote his words about the ingoing ferry boat lest he should feel regret at having spoken them. By a word he could have done it, yet he feared lest that word must jeopardize his brother. I fear it is a tadpole, but I keep the specimen lest it should be a lepidosiren. You have not to watch lest He should forget, but to be ready when He gives you the lightest call. He did not go down to the Lake this day, lest he should come near the tinker. Show More Sentences These do fear lest they be besmirched by fellowship with the mean and ailing. If they misconstrued Mary's motive, let us beware lest we misconstrue theirs. The needleful should not be lengthy lest it gets worn before it is all worked in. She was unwilling to disclose her secret, lest the knowledge of it might make Wilbur offish and so embarrass her efforts. If the wedding is a small one great care should be taken lest the guests are so numerous as to overcrowd the church or home. I would have only one vegetable at a time, lest I might be tempted to overeat and lose my appetite, and so spoil everything. In spite of her fear lest she should irritate him, Xantippe shrank from his touch. Then the false mother had to turn into a panther again, lest she fall down. A dozen held tremblingly to the pirogue's gunwale, lest they fall and drown. So, as far as possible, there must be in me no departure from myself, lest I injure the preconscious dynamic relation. They are afraid to approach the rocks, lest the waters should rise in anger, and ingulf them. Let us not provoke the smiter, lest he draw his sword against us, and have law and reason on his side. Dreading lest they would lose their prize, they promptly blew up the Indianola, before they discovered that they were sold. We then, guided by candela, hurried forward on our journey, keeping a sharp look-out lest the fugitive Indians should return. He nourished a measure of small-minded anxiety lest he be indebted to somebody for something. They say with those foolish israelites, 'Let not God speak to us, lest we die. It almost made me fear lest it should prove a swan song from the dear minister. He was alarmed lest a minute pimple on his chin should develop into a chancre. He discovered that when his mother or father was in the room she was terrified lest he should misbehave. He was afraid lest King Iobates should imagine that he had fled from the chimaera. Show More Sentences Tethys, who is waiting to receive me, often trembles for me lest I should fall headlong. Care must be taken lest it be closed up by coagula during the first hour or two after the operation. I thought it best to come away, however, lest the affair grow into a quarrel. She was afraid to leave her lest she connive with Stowe Webb at some escapade. No man dared contradict or oppose him, lest he should be denounced as a conniver of the plot, and arrested as a traitor. The wax should never be picked out with pin or sharp object except by a physician, lest injury be done to the tympanic membrane. He dared not look at her while he spoke, lest seeing her should unnerve him altogether. And, not knowing him so well as I did afterwards, I feared lest I should unsettle him. Nevertheless, we will have it done, lest their bad example should corrupt the other hogs. At first vela Nunnez was on his guard, lest it might be a false confidence devised for his ruin. Smollett and Carlyle then walked home through secluded streets, and were silent, lest their speech should bewray them for Scots. Indulgence, however, should not be too frequent, lest it debilitate the pair and undermine their health. After she had seen him shoot at Spurling he had avoided her, lest by contact with him she should be defiled. But we were afraid to lose sight of the bridge, lest we should get all adrift. We tie him to a tree, and hopple his fore and hind feet, lest he may struggle. Frantically Arcot warned them away, lest the air blast from their props tear the glider from the magnet. But this must be done with the most severe scrutiny, lest we depart from truth. Do not place the spit too near the fire, lest the skin should burn and blister. The carbon-content of steel is rarely greater than this, lest the brittleness be excessive. Of the greatest gift of Dionysus I hardly like to speak, lest I should be misunderstood. Show More Sentences The dispenser had not dared to say what he had done, lest I should be angry. It was tabu for a messenger to go direct to the army lest he should dispirit the troops. So much so that if she had a husband, he dare not beat her lest she run and tattle to them. When it was torn he carefully removed the tattered portion underneath, lest he should be in the enjoyment of the double cloth. We could not escape from it, lest we hurt the amour-propre of the cook, and it was late when we were ready for our last sortie. He did not reply, lest the power given for edification should turn to destruction. At these words Pincher took a spurt and had to be held in, lest they should overtake the wagon. I am afraid to mention their eyes, lest, from the incredibility of the thing, you should not believe me. But he was not to let her see the evidences of his agitation, lest she be frightened. I expressed some jealousy upon it, lest he should have place given over me in the executorship. The surgeon should be ready at once to close the canula with his thumb, if the flow begins to cease, lest air should be admitted. My chief anxiety is lest the Academy-product-sale-Commission of the State carry on its office-trade too slackly. He trembled lest he should have been the plaything of a whim, for he had heard what a capriccio might mean in an Italian. He should be careful lest he incur the moral guilt of subornation of perjury, if not the legal offence. I am a bear leader who daily trembles lest the muzzle should give way at last. Take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness. During that time they must be turned once or twice every day, lest they should putrefy or molder. Find more words! 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