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1  "It's a dreadful shiftless one," said aunty.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  "She's dreadfully dirty, and half naked," she said.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  "Selfishness is a dreadful fault," said St. Clare, gravely.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  He was always finding fault, and quarrelling with him; and I used to live in daily fear and dread.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Now that he was gone, he had moved about in daily dread and trembling, not knowing what might befall him next.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  But, finally, there came over his sleep a shadow, a horror, an apprehension of something dreadful hanging over him.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
8  There is a dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil, that turns things sweetest and holiest to phantoms of horror and affright.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
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