Myriads of such rains had, with age long inevitableness, crumbled away the strong fortress till its Threatful mass had sunk to an abject heap.
"Malcolm"
George MacDonald
In front of all, Or interspaced, with slow-matched gunners manned, Upthroated rows of Threatful ordnance stand.
"The Dynasts An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes"
Thomas Hardy
He made, however, but one Threatful stride towards the factor, for the great man turned and fled.
"The Marquis of Lossie"
George MacDonald