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1  The worst thing I dreaded has come to pass.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
2  Only I dread to think of anything beyond the present.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
3  Yet detection, after all, would be no such dreadful thing.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
4  Rachel appeared as one dreadfully troubled, and at last began to cry.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
5  But he dreaded to contemplate Thomasin wedded to the mere corpse of a lover that he now felt himself to be.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: 3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
6  The child assumed that this was the cart of a gipsy, and his dread of those wanderers reached but to that mild pitch which titillates rather than pains.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
7  Eustacia was always anxious to avoid the sight of her husband in such a state as this, which had become as dreadful to her as the trial scene was to Judas Iscariot.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
8  The consequences which might result from Clym's discovery that his mother had been turned from his door that day were likely to be disagreeable, and this was a quality in events which she hated as much as the dreadful.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
9  The face of the heath by its mere complexion added half an hour to evening; it could in like manner retard the dawn, sadden noon, anticipate the frowning of storms scarcely generated, and intensify the opacity of a moonless midnight to a cause of shaking and dread.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
10  His dread was lest she should think fit to return to Alderworth, and in that dread his eyes, with all the inquisitiveness of affection, frequently sought her face when she was not observing him, as he would have watched the head of a stockdove to learn if it contemplated flight.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated