menace

It seems to feel that every offer of kindness or familiarity is a menace to its liberty.

The island was a menace to coasters and bore an uncanny reputation.

Perhaps a menace of publicity, rather than risk, was the cause of the wearing strain on him.

There was presentiment and menace in every minute of that brief half-hour.

It was that of an old man—my father's,—and the menace with which the arms were lifted froze the blood in my veins.

Jasper was frank and fearless by temperament, and anything in the shape of a menace roused his high spirit.

Such a popular and powerful hero was a menace to the Government.

The enemy crossed our frontiers and the heart of France fell under the menace of the foreign cohorts.

Sir, I make allowance for you; I retract my menace, and apologize.

By way of reply to this menace, Titus deliberately filled a stiff glass of whisky-and-water.