1 I trembled violently, apprehending some dreadful misfortune.
2 I dreaded to behold this monster, but I feared still more that Henry should see him.
3 The life of my father is in the greatest danger, owing to the dreadful circumstance that I have related.
4 More than once the agitation into which these reflections threw me made my friends dread a dangerous relapse.
5 Presently I heard the sound of footsteps along the passage; the door opened, and the wretch whom I dreaded appeared.
6 Do not ask me," cried I, putting my hands before my eyes, for I thought I saw the dreaded spectre glide into the room; "HE can tell.
7 I felt as if I was about the commission of a dreadful crime and avoided with shuddering anxiety any encounter with my fellow creatures.
8 I postponed this attempt for some months longer, for the importance attached to its success inspired me with a dread lest I should fail.
9 These feelings are transitory; each day of expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair.
10 Sometimes I sat with my eyes fixed on the ground, fearing to raise them lest they should encounter the object which I so much dreaded to behold.
11 You took me on board when my vigour was exhausted, and I should soon have sunk under my multiplied hardships into a death which I still dread, for my task is unfulfilled.
12 At these moments I often endeavoured to put an end to the existence I loathed, and it required unceasing attendance and vigilance to restrain me from committing some dreadful act of violence.
13 Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart, and tears gushed from my eyes.
14 My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner, but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.
15 I have one secret, Elizabeth, a dreadful one; when revealed to you, it will chill your frame with horror, and then, far from being surprised at my misery, you will only wonder that I survive what I have endured.
16 But on the day that was to fulfil my wishes and my destiny, she was melancholy, and a presentiment of evil pervaded her; and perhaps also she thought of the dreadful secret which I had promised to reveal to her on the following day.
17 But you are distant from me, and it is possible that you may dread and yet be pleased with this explanation; and in a probability of this being the case, I dare not any longer postpone writing what, during your absence, I have often wished to express to you but have never had the courage to begin.
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