dreadful

The panels had closed on this dreadful vision, but light had not returned to the saloon: all was silence and darkness within the Nautilus.

It is the other part of your offence, therefore, upon which I intend to admonish you, I mean the violation of your chastity;--a crime, however lightly it may be treated by debauched persons, very heinous in itself, and very dreadful in its consequences.

One night there was a dreadful storm; it thundered and lightened and the rain streamed down in torrents.

Sir Oliver, though he was so gentle, was a fiery old fellow, and what he said was all so new to me, and so dreadful, that I found a bitter feeling toward men rise up in my mind that I never had before.

For my part I could better spare that dreadful woman at number three with her short skirts and her snake.

You know Harold came here six weeks ago, to get up his French for those dreadful examinations that he has to pass so soon.

That was dreadful. I fell upon my knees before the sofa, caressing her, and imploring her not to rend my heart; but, for some time, poor little Dora did nothing but exclaim Oh dear!

I looked on myself as lost, and that I had nothing to think of but of going out of the world, and that with the utmost infamy: the hellish noise, the roaring, swearing, and clamour, the stench and nastiness, and all the dreadful crowd of afflicting things that I saw there, joined together to make the place seem an emblem of hell itself, and a kind of an entrance into it.

What dreadful thing has happened, or is going to happen?

That little glow of self-satisfaction, that added measure of self-confidence, were to lead me on that very night to the most dreadful experience of my life, ending with a shock which turns my heart sick when I think of it.

How dreadful if she really wished to remain near him!

Then above the clang and clamor of dreadful battle we hear the mournful dirge of minstrels wailing o'er the dead.