I could not decide whether she desired the return of her husband because she loved him, or because she dreaded the tongue of scandal; and I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid to my young mind, of wounded vanity.
With these feelings, she rather dreaded than sought for the first view of that well-known spire which would announce her within twenty miles of home.
Again she passed through the folding doors, again her hand was upon the important lock, and Catherine, hardly able to breathe, was turning to close the former with fearful caution, when the figure, the dreaded figure of the general himself at the further end of the gallery, stood before her!
Her heart instantaneously at ease on this point, she resolved to lose no time in particular examination of anything, as she greatly dreaded disobliging the general by any delay.
The servants when they heard the dreaded noise knew at once what had happened, and rushed straight into the bathroom to try and staunch the flood, taking no notice of the figure on the landing in the towel, but Mrs.
And now a gentle hand—how well she knew and how much she dreaded gentle hands—was placed on her forehead.
It was what one dreaded most.
Matthew dreaded all women except Marilla and Mrs.
" "Well, we're not getting a girl," said Marilla, as if poisoning wells were a purely feminine accomplishment and not to be dreaded in the case of a boy.
But nobody ever dreaded old maidenhood for her.
Huckleberry was cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town, because he was idle and lawless and vulgar and bad—and because all their children admired him so, and delighted in his forbidden society, and wished they dared to be like him.
Supposedly, the high waist was meant to cover the tummy and prevent it from spilling over the top of the jeans, creating the dreaded muffin top—but usually, all it did was accentuate any visible fat and make you look frumpy to boot.
On a cool-for-Miami March morning, the day I dreaded for so long had come: My marriage was over.
At 25, Ms Huang (who chose her English name herself) is two years shy of the dreaded age at which she will be branded a shengnu, or "leftover woman".
This dreaded disease eventually wore down even the likes of a little dynamo like Tyler.
You see, we lost Mike due to dreaded cancer.
Getting that dreaded rejection letter stinks at first, but eventually you become able to just shrug it off and go on to the next one.
If I so much as curl my lip when they are served (because, after all, I still hate the horrid little things), my mother repeats the dreaded words one more time: "You ate them for money," she says.
One of the most dreaded, tedious and boring household chores is doing laundry.
It is no secret women tend to lay down more fat than men in certain areas and the dreaded muffin top is always a bone of contention.
