"Dreaded" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little boys who had to stay in one home all the time—that is, if he had known anything at all about them. But the life of the strolling player was all that he had ever known, and he found it delightful, except for the dreaded intervals of "bookin' ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... irregular proceeding as appointing a youth of seventeen to an Archbishopric could hardly have been carried out, even in the Balkans, had it not been for the terror of a dead man's curse—a thing still dreaded in the land. And also for the fact that Rada's election had the support too of Vuko ...
— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith
... for the very next week, accompanied, of course, by the maid who had done Rosy so much harm! Poor Mrs. Vincent—it really was trying—and she did not even like to tell Rosy's father how much she dreaded his sister's visit. For Aunt Edith had meant and wished to be so truly kind to Rosy that it seemed ungrateful not to ...
— Rosy • Mrs. Molesworth
... came that she had not really seen the injured man but that the slight glimpse of his clothing and his white hair had been, indeed, very like her grandfather's. Still, this awful thing could not, should not be true! Better far that dreaded place, Snug Harbor, where, at least, he would be alive and ...
— A Sunny Little Lass • Evelyn Raymond
... the following day. The abbess was better, and as yet there had been no return of the syncope which Dalrymple dreaded. ...
— Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) • F. Marion Crawford
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