At the same instant a slight movement at one side attracted his attention to where another similar figure crouched in the underbrush, and then a third, fourth and fifth became evident about him.Bulan looked in wonderment upon the strange, man-like creatures who eyed him threateningly from every hand.They stood fully as high as the brown Dyak warriors, but their bodies were naked except for the growth of reddish hair which covered them, shading to black upon the face and hands.…Cited from The Monster Men, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The burgomaster rose up proud and threateningly from his seat.Cited from The Merchant of Berlin, by L Muhlbach
Beyond rose the loftier height of Cape Diamond, with its redoubts and parapets.Three great batteries looked threateningly from the upper rock of Quebec, while three others were placed, near the edge of the water, in the lower town.On the right was the great camp of Montcalm, stretching from the Saint Charles, at the foot of the city walls, to the gorge of the Montmorenci.…Cited from With Wolfe in Canada, by G. A. Henty
The editor's forehead was a mass of wrinkles and his eyes glared threateningly from behind his glasses.Tom found his voice and laid the letter on the desk.…Cited from The New Boy at Hilltop, by Ralph Henry Barbour
Moreover, the atmosphere of Germany in these days is not creative.A black finger is pointing threateningly from the sky.The enormity of the punishment which Fate threatens is incredibly great, and yet it keeps threatening.…Cited from Europe--Whither Bound?, by Stephen Graham
Midnight, and they pulled up amid the deeper gloom of a great, overhanging bluff, having numerous trees near its summit.There was the glow of a distant fire upon their left, which reddened the sky, and reflected oddly on the edges of a vast cloud-mass rolling up threateningly from the west.Neither knew definitely where they were, although Murphy guessed the narrow stream they had just forded might be the upper waters of the Tongue.…Cited from Bob Hampton of Placer, by Randall Parrish
The men sat under the painted ceiling and the gilded mirrors, over a glass of beer, leaving the girls to freeze -- even Elvira had to sit still."Mazurka!" bellowed Cerberus, going threateningly from table to table.They slunk into the hall like beaten curs, dejectedly danced once round the floor, and paid.…Cited from Pelle the Conqueror, by Martin Anderson Nexo
"When a talker has turned ninety an' can meet me on equal ground, I'll consent to argue with him."His lower lip protruded threateningly from his toothless gums, while two tears of anger rolled slowly out of his eyes and over his veined and roughened cheeks to the crescent shaped hollow of his chin.…Cited from The Miller Of Old Church, by Ellen Glasgow
Except for the teeth, his bodily frame appeared to have fallen into disrepair, as though he had ceased to be interested in it, as though he had been using it for a long time as a mere makeshift lodging.And this impression was more marked at table; he ate exactly as if throwing food to a wild animal concealed somewhere within the hemisphere, an animal which was never seen, but which rumbled threateningly from time to time in its dark dungeon.Of all this, Edwin had definitely noticed nothing save that his father was `getting stouter.' To Edwin, Darius was exactly the same father, and for Darius, Edwin was still aged sixteen.…Cited from Clayhanger, by Arnold Bennett
Red earth without the sun looked brown, brown looked black, and the trees, swaying helplessly before the raging fury of the gale, seemed struck by death.Lightning continued its electrical vividity of fork-like greenish white among the heavy clouds, drooping threateningly from the hill-tops to the darkened valleys below, laden still with their waiting, unshed deluge.Through a narrow incision in the cruel clouds the sun peeped out with a nervous timidity, and a tiny patch over yonder, in a flash illuminated with gold and purple, across which the lightning danced in heavenly rivalry, displayed the magic touch of the Artist of the skies.…Cited from Across China on Foot, by Edwin Dingle
Heading towards the right bank, I hugged the naked cliff on the side opposite Fort Douglas, and trusted the rising mist to conceal me.Thus, I slipped past cannon, pointing threateningly from the Hudson's Bay post, recrossed to the wooded west bank again, and paddled on till I caught a glimpse of a little, square, whitewashed house in a grove of fine old trees.This I knew, from Frances Sutherland's description, was her father's place.…Cited from Lords of the North, by A. C. Laut
