Meanings of continual dread in English

Worse than all is the continual dread of conflagration in which we live.

Struggling to repress the ugly truth, she was in continual dread of exposure.

She seemed to live in continual dread of some approaching ordeal.

And then their husbands get dragged in too, and live in continual dread of fresh complications.

She lived in continual dread of discovery.

Being industrious and frugal, they managed to live very comfortably, except the continual dread of being discovered.

As they love and will not part with their sins, so they are in continual dread of punishment.-Mason

I live in continual dread lest, like the golden bowl, the pipes of me and my chimney shall yet be broken.

His temper had become so unbridled, his passion so ferocious, that his generals and even his intimate friends lived in continual dread.

In 1677, the old law for burning heretics was repealed; a prudent measure, while the nation was in continual dread of the return of Papery.

The only thing which marred their happiness was the continual dread that man-hunters might pounce upon them, in some unguarded hour, and separate them forever.