"I thought perhaps we might have a real Threatener of the King's life, at last," he said.
"Oddsfish!"
Robert Hugh Benson
Both the castles and the fleets are taken; and what punishment must we now expect from this terrible Threatener?"
"The Scottish Chiefs"
Jane Porter
But we knew very well that when the heat of passion had subsided, the Threatener would be too 'cute to injure her own property; and at once set afloat a subscription for the purchase of the child.
"Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands"
Mary Seacole Commentator: W. H. Russell