1 And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left--taxation that ate up crops and barns and the ever-present threat of sudden confiscation--he intended to have them.
2 It was the threat of the convent that finally won the assent of bewildered and heartstricken Pierre Robillard.
3 In fact, it was my threat to unbosom my conscience about them that got me out of jail.
4 When Scarlett leased ten convicts, five for each of her mills, Archie made good his threat and refused to have anything further to do with her.
5 To Lily the intonation sounded like a threat.
6 Meanwhile the last moments of the performance seemed to gain an added brightness from the hovering threat of the curtain.
7 When she emerged on the pavement, the day was still high, but a threat of rain darkened the sky and cold gusts shook the signs projecting from the basement shops along the street.
8 He paused: and then pausing no more, made good his word, spite of Steelkilt's threat, whatever that might have been.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 9 It would be difficult to describe the expression with which Magua listened to this threat to follow.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 30 10 The youth, nevertheless, felt a threat.
11 What meaning was couched under this terrible threat, it is difficult to say; but certain it is that its awful indistinctness seemed to produce very little impression on the young sinners addressed.
12 The threat that terrifies more than whipping or torture of any kind is the threat of being sent down river.
13 And she worked there one day, as we have described, to show how perfectly she scorned the threat.
14 The dash was more fear-inspiring than any threat could have been.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 15 With this threat he left his turret, and carried to the hall of the castle his unwonted intelligence, that a holy friar stood before the gate and demanded instant admission.