dreadly

Example Sentences

• "1652, Anonymous, "Christs Kingdome" in Eliza's Babes, Or, The Virgin's Offering, critical edition by L. E. Semler, Associated University Press, 2001, p. 73, lines 16-20, https://books.google.ca/books?id=C2_I9s7b3NwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false At thy approach, black shades did vanish, / And from my heart thou feare didst banish, / And in their room did light appear, / And joy instead of dreadly feare."
• "1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, in The Poetical Works of Dr. Goldsmith, London: J. Osborne & T. Griffin, 1785, p. 44, https://books.google.ca/books?id=aA0UAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false […] To distant climes, a dreadly scene, / Where half the convex world intrudes between, / To torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, / Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe."
• "Lo! 'mid the dreadly solitude a pilgrim form I see / Swift gliding towards me—"
• "'The teeth of the dreadly viper is still sticking into me!' he yelled."
• "Some practices are considered as essential for the attainment of an enlightened life but are looked upon as dreadly or extremely secret."
• "The Normans made another dreadly appearance in 869, and as they were pagans they had no compunction about attacking, plundering and setting fire to the abbey of Saint-Germain-de-Prés."