“Billy was guided by dread and the lack of dread. Dread told him when to stop. Lack of it told him when to move again.”
“It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.”
“Oh, the dread. The horrible, awful, dreadful, dready dread.”
“It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.”
“The word "dreadful," even when used three times in a row, did not seem like a dreadful enough word to describe everything that had happened.”
“She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.”