| He acted every part of an orator, and I could observe many periods of threatenings, and others of promises, pity, and kindness. |
| The same awful impressions excited by the divine threatenings and punishments recorded in Scripture, and by the moral order of the world. |
| It was surging and bounding alarmingly over the uneven track, not without threatenings of derailment. |
| He made it a point to identify all of them, receiving, while he did so, scowls and mutterings, and reciprocating with cocky bullyings and threatenings. |
