Here we were free from the attacks of the large land carnivora; but the smaller flying reptiles, the snakes, leopards, and panthers were a constant
menace, though by no means as much to be feared as the huge beasts that roamed the surface of the earth.
And in return you preach to your employers the brands of metaphysics that are especially acceptable to them; and the especially acceptable brands are acceptable because they do not
menace the established order of society.
Her eyes raised for a moment seemed full of innocent suffering and unexpressed
menace in the depths of the dilated pupils within the rings of sombre blue.
Look at him, Hump," Wolf Larsen said to me, "look at this bit of animated dust, this aggregation of matter that moves and breathes and defies me and thoroughly believes itself to be compounded of something good; that is impressed with certain human fictions such as righteousness and honesty, and that will live up to them in spite of all personal discomforts and
menaces.
Osborne got some hint of the transaction, came back from the City abruptly, and entered the drawing-room with his bamboo cane; found the painter, the pupil, and the companion all looking exceedingly pale there; turned the former out of doors with
menaces that he would break every bone in his skin, and half an hour afterwards dismissed Miss Wirt likewise, kicking her trunks down the stairs, trampling on her bandboxes, and shaking his fist at her hackney coach as it bore her away.
My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner, but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his
menaces, he would surely find other and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.
And brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors, which sometimes
menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man.
I trust this will not be regarded as a
menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it WILL Constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
The
menace of the "overdue" and the finality of "missing" come very quickly to steamers whose life, fed on coals and breathing the black breath of smoke into the air, goes on in disregard of wind and wave.
This third
menace was too much for the game spirit of John Day.
in order to arrest this haughty, arrogant Titan who, true to his
menace, threatens to scale my heaven.
At her hip was a pistol--a formidable weapon with which to face a man; but a puny thing indeed with which to
menace the great beast before her.
