Sentence examples for dread of him from inspiring English sources

He revelled in Catholic dread of him and in the notoriety afforded him by his nickname, "King Rat".

XXXtentacion is probably the most recent example of someone whose online persona seemed to create all sorts of dread for him and may have played a role in his death.

He had a dread of her as she lay there.

He was already a shadow in the mid-80s when Michael Holroyd received a huge advance from Chatto and Windus to write his four-volume biography, which had the effect Shaw dreaded, of explaining him away.

For "The Good Soldiers," Finkel embedded himself so deep in a battalion that he could evoke the blood, sweat and dread of the men around him.

I lived in terror and dread of what might happen to him".

Albert Bachmann, Switzerland's least effective but most colorful spymaster, whose dread of a Soviet invasion led him to create a secret intelligence service and guerrilla force unknown to the Swiss government in the 1970s, died on April 12 in Cork, Ireland.

His favourite reading was The Uncertainty of Signs of Death; his dread of being buried alive led him to stipulate in his will that when he died his children should sever his head from his body, a task duly performed by his daughter, who kept a hand on the saw worked by the surgeon hired for the purpose.

As noted by his biographer, the episode left Berlin with a dread of violence that stayed with him after he left Russia in 1921 with his mother and father for a life in England and right up to his death in Oxford in November 1997.

He may have lived the rest of his life in dread of Antonina's power to expose him publicly.

Tells about his dread of this meal hall where people would inefficiently help him, then abandon him.