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Then the Master, stalking forward where the murderer shrinks in dread,
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And your eyelid never thrembled for danger nor for dread,
The Purcell Papers 2003
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Then readied for the tale he'd tell of certain love and dread,
lethalpickle Diary Entry lethalpickle 2001
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Well she plunged in the stream without fear or dread,
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Where darkness was; there as we crouched with dread,
Stories in Verse Henry Abbey
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From Gloucester shore, and Rockport crags, lashed by the breakers dread,
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Filling those peaceful hours with shapes of dread,
The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems Kate Seymour MacLean
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That the sitters about thee beset thee with dread,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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He whose mighty earthquake-tread all Europa shook with dread,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various
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Whose knowledge more than all thou ought to dread,
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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