minatory

But was it in virtue of his seeing armed Phantasms of St. Edmund 'on the rim of the horizon,' looking minatory on him?

His features had lost their delicately benevolent aspect; his words were minatory.

Yet'—and he made his voice minatory—'in these evil and tickle times well it might have been that that letter held delicate news.

But their protests became more urgent as we went on, their tone less minatory.