1 "It's a dreadful shiftless one," said aunty.
2 "She's dreadfully dirty, and half naked," she said.
3 "Selfishness is a dreadful fault," said St. Clare, gravely.
4 Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
5 He was always finding fault, and quarrelling with him; and I used to live in daily fear and dread.
6 Now that he was gone, he had moved about in daily dread and trembling, not knowing what might befall him next.
7 But, finally, there came over his sleep a shadow, a horror, an apprehension of something dreadful hanging over him.
8 There is a dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil, that turns things sweetest and holiest to phantoms of horror and affright.
9 He seemed to have some feeling for me; he saw that something dreadful was on my heart, and he came to see me alone, a great many times, and finally persuaded me to tell him.
10 There are those living who know the mothers whom this accursed traffic has driven to the murder of their children; and themselves seeking in death a shelter from woes more dreaded than death.
11 This nerves the African, naturally patient, timid and unenterprising, with heroic courage, and leads him to suffer hunger, cold, pain, the perils of the wilderness, and the more dread penalties of recapture.
12 They say the alligator, the rhinoceros, though enclosed in bullet-proof mail, have each a spot where they are vulnerable; and fierce, reckless, unbelieving reprobates, have commonly this point in superstitious dread.
13 But, as time, and debasing influences, and despair, hardened womanhood within her, and waked the fires of fiercer passions, she had become in a measure his mistress, and he alternately tyrannized over and dreaded her.
14 The fireman, as he looked up from his sweaty toil, sometimes found those eyes looking wonderingly into the raging depths of the furnace, and fearfully and pityingly at him, as if she thought him in some dreadful danger.
15 They came up to him, swearing dreadfully; and one man, whose face I shall never forget, told him that he wouldn't get away so; that he was going with him into the calaboose, and he'd get a lesson there he'd never forget.
16 The more hopelessly sordid and insensible he appeared, the greater became Mrs. Shelby's dread of his succeeding in recapturing Eliza and her child, and of course the greater her motive for detaining him by every female artifice.
17 When he came to himself, the fire was gone out, his clothes were wet with the chill and drenching dews; but the dread soul-crisis was past, and, in the joy that filled him, he no longer felt hunger, cold, degradation, disappointment, wretchedness.
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