For I dream I know not how, And my soul is sorely shaken
Lest an evil step be taken, -
Lest the dead who is forsaken May not be happy now.
When ye fight with a Wolf of the Pack, ye must fight him alone and afar, Lest others take part in the quarrel, and the Pack be diminished by war.
If ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with your bay, Lest ye frighten the deer from the crops, and the brothers go empty away.
Lothario did not care to tell Camilla the object Anselmo had in view, nor that he had afforded him the opportunity of attaining such a result,
lest she should undervalue his love and think that it was by chance and without intending it and not of his own accord that he had made love to her.
And now Mr Jones, having seen his good offices to that poor woman and her family brought to a happy conclusion, began to apply himself to his own concerns; but here,
lest many of my readers should censure his folly for thus troubling himself with the affairs of others, and
lest some few should think he acted more disinterestedly than indeed he did, we think proper to assure our reader, that he was so far from being unconcerned in this matter, that he had indeed a very considerable interest in bringing it to that final consummation.
"If it is fallible," he replied, "there is the greater reason that I explain it,
lest it mislead."
For think,
lest any languish By cause of thy distress The arrows of our anguish Fly farther than we guess.
Agitated though he was, and with reason, the doctor did not forget to shut the house door,
lest some passers-by might chance to see what had happened.
They passed them on the road, browsing on the stunted grass; and the driver told them, that the poor beasts had wandered to the village first, but had been driven away,
lest they should bring the vengeance of the crowd on any of the inhabitants.
Live as quietly and as frugally as possible, and from today begin always to set aside something,
lest misfortune again overtake you.
'Conquest of Granada', but still a passion, and I should dread a little to read the piece now,
lest I should disturb my old ideal of its beauty.
"Thus I thought in my heart; then, tarrying not,
lest fear should come upon me again, I swung up the Watcher, and crying aloud the war-cry of the Halakazi, I sprang over the brink of the rock and rushed upon the wolves.