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Sentences starting with dreadful

Dreadful will be the awakening to an insipid life, if they find they both have the same sort of currents. [4]
Dreadful as the countess imagined it would be should Prince Andrew die in her daughter's arms during the journey--as, judging by what the doctor said, it seemed might easily happen--she could not oppose Natasha. [2]
Dreadful slow. [6]
Dreadful forebodings. [5]

Sentences ending with dreadful

To look back was to survey a prospect even more dreadful. [9]
When a man touches me--I cannot bear it, it is horrible, dreadful! [10]
The rack was there, and the other instruments, and there was a smoky lantern or two hanging on the walls and helping to make the place look dim and dreadful. [5]
The white, metallic stars saw it, the small crescent moon beheld it, and the deep wonder of night made it strange and dreadful. [11]
They withdrew from society, and grew more and more mysterious and dreadful. [5]
The thought is so very dreadful. [10]
Tynie was for pitching him out of the house, and taking the consequences; but, all the same, a sudden death like that all alone must have been dreadful. [11]
However, I restrained myself and said-- 'It must have been dreadful. [5]
The pain in my hands and feet was dreadful. [5]
Like a suffering man who goes to the physician's house to die or be cured by the knife, she felt that she was on her way to something terrible in itself, to remedy, if possible, something still more dreadful. [10]

Short sentences using dreadful

This cruel, dreadful tyranny! [11]
Oh, it's dreadful times! [6]
It's that dreadful murder. [5]
A dreadful old man! [6]
It was dreadful lonesome. [5]
Oh, the dreadful hand! [6]
Oh, this is dreadful. [5]
All this was dreadful. [4]
But this is dreadful, sir. [6]
It was a dreadful trip. [5]

Sentences containing dreadful two or more times

There was trouble, strange and dreadful trouble, here; and the wrenching thought had swept into his brain that he was the cause of it all, that he was to be the spring and centre of dreadful happenings. [11]
Oh, this dreadful, dreadful business of being the prophet of evil! [6]
But as soon as he closed them he saw before him the dreadful face of the factory lad--especially dreadful because of its simplicity--and the faces of the murderers, even more dreadful because of their disquiet. [2]

More example sentences with the word dreadful in them

All the possible years of her life were gathered into the force of one dreadful moment--dreadful and wonderful. [11]
Miss Clara Browne wrote home to her mother in the same terms as Miss Florence Smythe,--that the school was getting dreadful common, and they were letting in very queer folks. [6]
Pity but they would repent of these dreadful things--and maybe they will yet. [5]
No other man would have undertaken so Quixotic an enterprise, none would have exposed himself so recklessly to the dreadful accidents of circumstance. [11]
He thought it would be dreadful for me. [2]
She was examined with the stethoscope, and the dreadful fact was announced that her lungs were affected, and that tubercular consumption had already made considerable progress. [14]
It's that dreadful will of hers never was broke. [6]
Some dreadful thing will come of it. [13]
These dreadful chromos which he takes for old masters; these villainous portraits--which to his frantic mind represent Rossmores; the hatchments; the pompous name of this ramshackle old crib-- Rossmore Towers; and that odd assertion of his, that I was expected. [5]
There were times when for months you forgot me; and then--then--" Suddenly a dreadful suspicion seized his brain. [11]
Then I witnessed what Brehm has described, for monkey after monkey, with head raised high and turned on one side, could not resist taking a momentary peep into the upright bag, at the dreadful object lying quietly at the bottom. [1]
I don't care what act you may turn your hand to, I can straightway whisper a word in your ear and make you think you have committed a dreadful meanness. [5]
When he is well again, if he hears that I am with Caesar, in obedience to his call whenever he sends for me, and if evil tongues tell him dreadful things about me, he, too, will condemn me! [10]
Now that she was there, beside him, her strength failed her, and her courage--courage that she had been storing for this dread undertaking throughout the whole of that dreadful day. [9]
Aunt Silence's engine was responsibility,--her own responsibility, and the dreadful consequences which would follow to her, Silence, if Myrtle should in any way go wrong. [6]
A dreadful anger was in her panting breast, but she could not speak. [11]
I said I was in a dreadful hurry, and I wished we could get this business permanently mapped out, so that I could go on with my work. [5]
Granting that there was anything dreadful in it, the daughter of a homely small farmer in England is not guarded and accompanied like a young lady on her journeys from one place to another. [4]
You don't look very rugged; and I should be dreadful afeard, if I was you. [6]
The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered and, making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place. [2]
Mrs. Clemens picked up a dreadful cold and sore throat on board ship and still keeps them in stock--so she could only travel 4 hours a day. [5]
We had had two hours of that blazing weather down there, and was dreadful thirsty when we got aboard again. [5]
The storm subsided toward daybreak, and I dozed gradually to sleep with a sense of obligation to Lem Hackett for going to eternal suffering in that abrupt way, and thus preventing a far more dreadful disaster--my own loss. [5]
But to be torn away from his occupations by which he was daily laying aside a little for himself and Fiammetta, and to leave her for three years,--that seemed dreadful to him. [4]
She looked after Tom Liffey and smiled; but it was a dreadful smile. [11]
It is dreadful to think of you in ill health--I can't realize it; you are always to me the same that you were in those days when matchless health. [5]
It is dreadful to see; but he had the courage. [11]
It was horrible to see the iron helmets fly into fragments under his dreadful ax. [5]
I want you to promise me that you will let others lead the assaults, if there must be assaults, and that you will take better care of yourself in those dreadful battles. [5]
Edith's affectionate entreaties to him to leave the dreadful city and come home were evaded on one plea or another. [4]
Madame Solde said to her: "My poor Marie--does it feel so dreadful, so dark? [11]
Then he descended to finish his dreadful office; and there she remained alone--she that had had so many friends in the days when she was free, and had been so loved and so dear. [5]
That's awful..." and to escape from these dreadful thoughts she went to Sonya and began sorting patterns with her. [2]
It was dreadful to be kept fast with the young people in such a mob. [10]
The (at that time) Scientist whom I mentioned a minute ago, and who had not been present at the convention, saw it and marvelled; marvelled and was indignant--indignant with the printer or the telegrapher, for making so careless and so dreadful an error. [5]
But this dreadful thud was what gave rise to the loudest applause among the spectators, falling on their satiated ears as a new sound. [10]
Torture rose from those four immeasurable chords; destruction was afoot upon them; a dreadful dance of death supervened. [11]
To wit, that this dreadful matter brought from these downtrodden people no outburst of rage against these oppressors. [5]
And do not think they are kept only to be spanked and dusted during that dreadful period when their owner is but too thankful to become an exile and a wanderer from the scene of single combats between dead authors and living housemaids. [3]
I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix. [5]
When, at length, they went away, and locked the dreadful room behind them, and came out into the street, where people were passing, they, for the first time, realized, in the relief they felt, what a nervous strain they had been under. [5]
So at last they got just about dead broke, and laid around the raft as she floated along, thinking and thinking, and never saying nothing, by the half a day at a time, and dreadful blue and desperate. [5]
For a moment there was a dreadful silence, and then Byng and Whalen looked at each other and nodded. [11]
I said it then only because it would have been dreadful for him, but he understood it differently. [2]
Would you provoke them to discharge their fury in some more dreadful manner? [10]
One glance at the woman, and the tears which trickled through her fingers and down her lean arms told Melissa that something dreadful had happened. [10]
But now, when the reverend Father came toward the dying man with the Body of the Lord, there was so dreadful and sorrowful a sight to be seen as I may never forget to my latter day. [10]
I am in the power of a dreadful man--" "You mean Mr. William Murray Bradshaw? [6]
Please step into the parlor and sit down and have a bite and sup; you are dreadful wet and must be uncomfortable --both of you, I mean. [5]
I learned with the most dreadful certainty what people really thought of me. [4]
He had watched the drip, drip from his victim's wrists with a dreadful joy. [11]
He had pictured the dreadful tyrant quite differently. [10]
I came to the church of the Recollets as I wandered; for now, for a little time, I seemed bewildered and incapable, lost in a maze of dreadful imaginings. [11]
I have seen the backs of all the other horses, and found most of them covered with dreadful saddle-boils which I know have not been washed or doctored for years. [5]
Think how dreadful that would be. [4]
We have seen that in spite of dreadful weather, deprivation of sleep, scorching, drenching, and all manner of miseries, thirteen days of starvation 'wonderfully recovered' him. [5]
A dreadful memory that haunted him, carried him out of the village, which clustered round the parish church, into Vadrome Mountain, three miles away, where he lived apart from all his kind. [11]
It seemed dreadful that Carnac should fight his own father, repeating what Fabian had done in another way. [11]
He had forborne telling her of her son; and she, whenever she had seen him, had contented herself with asking general questions, dreading in her heart that Jock had died a dreadful or shameful death, or else this gentleman would, voluntarily, say more. [11]
To see him, talk to him, feel his eyes on her now that her whole soul was overflowing with those dreadful, wicked temptations, was a torment of joy and terror. [2]
Is there some subtle sense of exquisite satisfaction in snatching the sweet moments of life out of the very delirium of it, that must soon end in an awakening to bankruptcy of the affections, and the dreadful loss of illusions? [4]
It had never struck him how dreadful a thing it was--so used had he been to death in many forms--till he had told the story to this mother. [11]
Upon the principal street or road of Baddeck stands the dreadful prison-house. [4]
Presently, with a stir of fright and a smothered cry, she waked to a sound which was not of the supernatural or of the mind's illusions, but no less dreadful to her because of that. [11]
What dreadful work Spelling made among those slight reputations, floating in swollen tenuity on the surface of the stream, and mirroring each other in reciprocal reflections! [6]
She felt that something unusual was passing in his mind, and such dreadful forebodings arose in her own, that she could only offer him the gift in silence and with trembling hands. [10]
She 'll have some dreadful tantrums at fust, but she'll come to it in two or three, days. [6]
He tells me some dreadful news. [10]
If he'd only smoked good tobacco, I wouldn't have said a word; but it was such dreadful stuff, it 'll take a week to get his chamber sweet enough to show them that asks for rooms. [6]
Had she not slept in her quiet little room; had she been rushing with Alexander in the wild Bacchic rout; or had something dreadful happened to his son? [10]
There, as I sit in the open day, a thousand times I have see him shiver and fall, staring, staring at me as if he see a dreadful thing. [11]
Presently, upon the silence, her voice sharp with agony said: "I am a leper, and I go to that desert place which my lord has set apart for lepers, where, dead to the world, I shall watch the dreadful years come and go. [11]
And the dreadful side of it all was that I had to make it plain to him--after what has happened that my desire to marry you wasn't the main reason of my refusal. [9]
But the dreadful sickness increased and increased, till the very sight of food occasioned nausea. [14]
She could not shut out the dreadful facts of the case, but it had been enough for her that Laura had said, in their first interview, "mother, I did not know what I was doing. [5]
No doubt we should feel worse without the boats; still they are dreadful tell-tales. [6]
A terror, a shame, a dreadful cruelty entered into him, but he was still and numb, and his tongue was thick. [11]
It made things seem fifty times as dreadful, and there warn't no more comfort for Aunt Sally and Benny. [5]
Some of these scars are of a very strange and dreadful aspect; and the effect is striking when several such accent the milder ones, which form a city map on a man's face; they suggest the "burned district" then. [5]
Mr. Brice was scarcely well enough to stand when they made the charge, and he is now in a dreadful condition He is a fine fellow," added the Doctor, with a sigh, "General Sherman sent a special physician to the boat with him. [9]
And how Porter Rockwell did this and that dreadful thing. [5]
He carried his resolution within himself in terror and haste, like something dreadful and alien to him, for, after the previous night's experience, he was afraid of losing it. [2]
Generally the toy represents twins, so swathed and bound; and, not infrequently, the bold conception of the artist carries the point of the humor so far as to introduce triplets, thus sporting with the most dreadful possibilities of life. [4]
Perhaps the Puritan reader read through his nose, and all the little Puritans made the most dreadful nasal inquiries as the entertainment went on. [4]
Katharina detained her, questioned her with a trembling voice, put the lamp close to her, and held her breath while she examined her face, her neck, and her arms for the dreadful spots. [10]
He was dreadful pleased with himself for catching Tom out. [5]
What a dreadful plain lay before me! [4]
It's a dreadful pity he can't rest no better. [5]
When it was over, however, she looked down at her fetters in despair, and it was long before she could think of her dreadful position quietly. [10]
She was riding out to meet the one man of all men, hero, crusader, rescuer--ah, that dreadful night in the Palace, and Foorgat's face! [11]
I was like one suddenly faced with a dreadful accusation, with which was a great fear. [11]
This threat caused one of the young ladies, she being of a weak and trembling temperament, to shed tears, and for this offense they were both filed off immediately, with a dreadful promptitude that struck terror into the souls of all the pupils. [12]
She was bent on going, and I was afraid she would have fits, or do something dreadful, if I did not let her have her way. [6]
He only spoke of your evil deed in those dreadful words and bid you go out of his sight. [10]
The dreadful day of torture ending in a harsh discord was at end; and behind it she looked back on a few blissful hours full of the promise of new happiness;--beyond these lay a long period of humiliation, the sequel of a terrible disaster. [10]
I sent one of the party for the doctor at Viking, and myself set to work, with what appliances I had, to deal with the dreadful injuries. [11]
The dreadful face of the murderer was not hideous now, but engaging--the face of a youth enduring torments of soul or of body. [10]
The dreadful secret of the murder was a chronic misery. [5]
Tachot fell ill of a dreadful fever and lay for nine days hovering between life and death; she is still so weak that she must be carried, and can move neither hand nor foot. [10]
It was an odd trick of the mind or soul that put a hymn on my lips in that dreadful hour of carnage and human misery, when men were calling the name of their Maker in vain. [9]

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