Use fearful in a sentence
Sentences starting with fearful
- Fearful of the suck, we crept along the Indian shore until we counted the boats moored in the Bear Grass, and presently above the trees on our right we saw the Stars and Stripes floating from the log bastion of Fort Finney. [9]
- Fearful tales she had heard in the prison hospitals of wounded men lying for days in the Southern sun between the trenches at Vicksburg, or freezing amidst the snow and sleet at Donelson. [9]
- Fearful misery is coming on Egypt for Nitetis' sake. [10]
Sentences ending with fearful
- The whole was vague, fearful. [4]
- It is true that 'death'--being dead--can frighten no wise man; but the step out of light into darkness is fearful. [10]
- He was like one who has been projected from one world to another, dazed, stricken, fearful. [11]
- Kilauea never overflows its vast crater, but bursts a passage for its lava through the mountain side when relief is necessary, and then the destruction is fearful. [5]
- But the example in either case was fearful. [7]
- As before, for days and days I rose exultant in the light, so now forever I sank into thickening darkness,--and yet not darkness, but a pale, ashy light more fearful. [4]
- It was fearful. [5]
Short sentences using fearful
- These are fearful times. [9]
- A fearful, horrible, nameless catastrophe! [10]
- But there's something fearful here. [13]
- Oh, what a fearful day! [10]
- There--that was another fearful cry! [10]
- For committing those fearful butcheries? [5]
More example sentences with the word fearful in them
- Then he fain would have prayed, but fearful mental anguish disturbed his devotion. [10]
- Three months I worked among this set, submitting to the strokes of the overseer, fainting under the fearful heat, and stiffening under the cold dews of night. [10]
- A few hurried words told them the fearful story. [6]
- The Moors gazed with fearful admiration at this glorious pageant, wherein the pomp of the court was mingled with the terrors of the camp. [4]
- The group stood wistful, fearful that their boldness had displeased, expectant of reprimand. [9]
- How did the wish that you could see me dead turn into the fearful resolve to let yourself be killed in my stead? [10]
- I was not willing to expose the brave fellows to the perils, fatigues, and hardships of that fearful route again if it could be helped. [5]
- But the tragedian who is fearful as Richard or as Iago finds that no hindrance to his success in the part of Romeo. [6]
- This practical joke which concealed a death-warrant--to what fearful issues might it not lead? [10]
- These fearful fields, where such tempests of death used to rage, are peaceful enough now; no sound is heard, hardly a living thing moves about them, they are lonely and silent--their desolation is complete. [5]
- She remained sitting where she was in a fearful fascination, awaiting Humphrey Crewe's answer. [9]
- With all this were mingled hints of her old superstition,--forebodings of something fearful about to happen,--perhaps the great final catastrophe of all things, according to the prediction current in the kitchens of Rockland. [6]
- The fearful work went on until nearly dawn. [5]
- At first he was merely conscious of having gone through a fearful experience, which threatened to fling him far outside the sphere of everything he was wont to reverence and hold sacred. [10]
- I, at first, was fearful how Belle Treherne would regard the gaucheries of the bookmaker, but I saw that he was rather an object of interest to her than otherwise; for he was certainly amusing. [11]
- At last there was a fearful uproar, and in fact a bloody fight. [10]
- It was a violation of both law and the sacred obligations of honor, to overthrow and trample under foot a solemn compromise, obtained by the fearful loss to freedom of one of the fairest of our Western domains. [7]
- He also wrote various sorts of hands, fearful and marvellous to the uninitiated, with which he was wont to decorate my monthly reports to my grandfather. [9]
- I was called up at dead of night and informed of this fearful misfortune. [5]
- Thus, if an unthinking and excited community had been listened to instead of the arguments of counsel, a poor crazy creature would have been held to a fearful responsibility for a mere freak of madness. [5]
- His imagination wavered uncertain for a while between pictures of various modes of ridding himself of existence, and fearful deeds involving the life of others. [6]
- It seemed fearful, unbearable, to be called an assassin. [10]
- In the mad turmoil, we were fearful, he was serene. [11]
- We took the train next morning and returned to Baden-Baden through fearful fogs of dust. [5]
- He had been told that it was to-morrow, and not to-day, that the hideous act would be accomplished; and it was a consolation to her to know that he was spared the agony of following her in fancy in her fearful progress. [10]
- What was she to think of the deaconess, who was his confederate; what of this handsome youth who had unmasked the deceiver, and saved her perhaps from some fearful fate? [10]
- It is fearful to think how our characters are probably being lied away by innumerable pen scratches in secret repositories, which may some day come to light as unimpeachable witnesses. [4]
- He then represented to them the fearful risk to which their folly had exposed them, and insisted very positively on their returning home and, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, taking a bath and putting on fresh garments. [10]
- Panting, fascinated, loath to leave yet fearful, Janet watched him, breathing now deeply this atmosphere of smoke, of strife, and turmoil. [9]
- It is owing to a neglect of the doctrines, that there is such a fearful falling away in the country. [5]
- What a fearful time is this into which we poor sensitive and timid creatures are born! [6]
- Will she pass through it unharmed, or wander from her path, and fall over one of those fearful precipices which lie before her? [6]
- Quickly, however, as though fearful lest he should think he could trouble her composure, she laid a hand upon herself. [11]
- But now as they stood up, to the eyes of the fearful watchers inextricably mixed, the man lunged again with his knife, and this time straight into the heart of the murderer. [11]
- But wasn't there,--mayn't there still be a way to deal with this fearful situation? [9]
- The burning of their town had brought new and fearful suffering on the stricken Memphites, and notwithstanding Katharina's death the Nile still did not rise. [10]
- Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? [10]
- In skilful hands, the silent, bloodless noose, flying like an arrow, but not like that leaving a wound behind it,--sudden as a pistol-shot, but without the telltale explosion,--is one of the most fearful and mysterious weapons that arm the hand of man. [6]
- She added in the same breath, as if fearful of any further questioning, 'But please will you leave a card or message? [12]
- I was on the Pennsylvania five minutes before she left N. Orleans, and I must tell you the truth, Mollie--three hundred human beings perished by that fearful disaster. [5]
- We sauntered through the markets and criticised the fearful and wonderful costumes from the back country; examined the populace as far as eyes could do it; and closed the entertainment with an ice-cream debauch. [5]
- As he raised the injured man, who still uttered low moans, and supported his head on his broad breast, the sweet perfume of fine ointment was wafted to him from his hair, and a fearful suspicion dawned upon his mind. [10]
- The inhabitants of the governor's residence passed a fearful night. [10]
- These criminals undergo the fearful operation without a wince, without a tremor of any kind, without a groan! [5]
- He sat with the driver, and (when necessary) rode that fearful distance, night and day, without other rest or sleep than what he could get perched thus on top of the flying vehicle. [5]
- Brigond crouched upon the deck, looking at him with fearful eyes. [11]
- Just previous to the day of his arrest, he had given a fearful beating to one of his followers; but such was his influence over them that the man wept bitterly at the gallows, and begged for his life with all his power. [5]
- The people called; the Cure clinched his hands at his side--he was too fearful even to pray. [11]
- Two claimants for the crown appeared; half our nation fought for the one, half for the other, and our hosts were thinned, first by this fearful civil war and then by the pestilence which followed in its track. [10]
- Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from--will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake? [7]
- It is said that the pleasure that lit Slade's face when he heard of it was something fearful to contemplate. [5]
- The stupendous images that in such moments of wild energy rose before the poet's soul, the fearful or enchanting tones that rang in his spirit's ear-none could guess at. [10]
- Have you considered that Benjamin, the most implacable and most powerful hater among the Jacobites, will pursue you as his mortal foe with all the fearful means at his command? [10]
- At night more than by day Venters felt something fearful and fateful in that rock, and that it had leaned and waited through a thousand years to have somehow to deal with his destiny. [13]
- Cruelly tormented by such thoughts as these, she dragged herself up and felt her way out into the air and wind, for she could no longer hold out in the gloomy solitude and fearful darkness. [10]
- Every movement was subdued; anxious, nay, fearful expectation was written on many faces, and on others impatience and disappointment. [10]
- And as I stood before him then, at the close of this fearful war, the words of the Gospel were in my mind. [9]
- Fierce and tenacious, steel in the cruelty of his desires, fearful in the havoc he had wrought, could he be subdued? [9]
- He at first stammered out a few unintelligible words, but his opponent was in fearful earnest with his question; he seized the collar of the anchorite's coarse garment with terrible violence, and cried in a husky voice, "Where did you find the dog? [10]
- In their far-off splendor they rose upon our imaginations dim and huge, shadowy and awful, and it was a fearful thing to hear them spoken of as if they were mere men, and their acts open to comment and criticism. [5]
- But it took some fearful driving. [5]
- The music and singing came nearer and nearer; and it did not indeed sound as if it were escorting a hapless creature to a fearful end. [10]
- The siege was short, as the garrison was far too small for the city, and the citizens were discouraged by the fearful defeat at Pelusium. [10]
- He was a short stout man, and the sweat streamed down his face as he stood under the blazing sun to sketch a fearful picture of the monstrous doom which was hanging over the city and its inhabitants. [10]
- Even the fearful shock which their nerves had sustained was not sufficient to overcome their coolness and courage. [5]
- In her terror she screamed for help; her cries were echoed back from the Pyramids in such loud and fearful tones that she awoke. [10]
- All at once she appeared to be agitated; she looked at the basket, then around, as if there were some fearful presence about her which she was searching for with her eager glances. [6]
- The lost, they shall sit by my fires, and the fearful ones shall seek, and the sick shall abide. [11]
- Lamothe's men, a seething mass, were fighting like wolves for the ladders, fearful yet that a volley might kill half of them where they stood. [9]
- That night they saw Manitou Mountain, cold, colossal, harshly calm; and jointly with that sight there arose a shrieking, biting, fearful north wind. [11]
- I saw the road curve in front of me, I put all my strength into the curb, and heeling at a fearful angle was swept into the busy Kensington Road. [9]
- I had not ridden a minute, when I came on a fearful scene. [10]
- Do not these relics suggest something of an idea of the fearful suffering and privation the early emigrants to California endured? [5]
- And, fearful to relate, the batrachian features humanized themselves as the monster grew, and, shaping themselves more and more into a remembered similitude, Myrtle saw in them a hideous likeness of--No! [6]
- I put this reformatory satire, in the shape of a fearful "Massacre at Empire City. [5]
- Honora did not recognize the handwriting, but she slipped the envelope into her lap, fearful of what it might contain, and, when she gained the privacy of her rooms, read it with quickening breath. [9]
- My dwelling was really splendidly situated, and beautifully furnished; it would have been first-rate, if, from the first moment of my entrance, a fearful annoyance had not made its appearance. [10]
- I closed my readings with a fearful adventure which Mr. Whymper once had on the Matterhorn when he was prowling around alone, five thousand feet above the town of Breil. [5]
- And thus we reached the noon of that fearful Thursday. [5]
- The king's blood ran cold as Mena, a second time, ventured the frightful leap; one false step, and he must meet with the same fearful death as his enemy Paaker. [10]
- It had become quite common, when Slade was on a spree, for the shop-keepers and citizens to close the stores and put out all the lights; being fearful of some outrage at his hands. [5]
- Pentaur grasped it, pressed it warmly, and said: "That was a fearful moment! [10]
- Up to the present the mental process of dwelling upon her own experience of the last three months had been unbearable, but now she was able to take a fearful satisfaction in the evolving of parallels between her case and Lise's. [9]
- This being known, preparence was made for her burial, a rich coffin was provided, and her fearful body was laid therein, and it covered very sumptuously. [4]
- She is a portentous and almost fearful creature. [6]
- Leaped a fearful place; what a sight when they rushed from the covert... the horse worth a thousand rubles and the rider beyond all price! [2]
- Could the least particle of the least of these fearful insinuations be true? [9]
- The fearful financial panic hit the book heavily, for we published it in the midst of it. [5]
- But the fearful pace at which she had just been going told on her. [4]
- As this fearful ordeal we are about to pass through pictures itself to my fancy in all its dread sublimity, I begin to feel my fierce desire to converse with a genuine Emperor cooling down and passing away. [5]
- He, if any one, would find some means of averting or, at any rate, mitigating the fearful calamity impending over the town and country, and against which prayer, sacrifice, processions, and pilgrimages had proved abortive. [10]
- The officer pounced on the soldiers who were in the shops, but at that moment fearful screams reached them from the huge crowd on the Moskva bridge and the officer ran out into the square. [2]
- Here, with death on every hand, with immediate and fearful peril before him, out of the smell of the desert and the ghostly glow of the Libyan hills there came a memory--the memory of a mistake he had made years before with a woman. [11]
- Out of the old vain and careless life, which had ended with such fearful horrors, a new life would now proceed of peace and love and pious cares. [10]
- At the end of this first seance I went home with six of his fearful secrets among my freightage, and found them a great help to my dreams, which had been sluggish for a while back. [5]
- The fearful crash of the falling stairs brought the King and Mena also out of the sleeping-room. [10]
- The fearful truth of that instinctive feeling of hers, that there was something not human looking out of Elsie's eyes, came upon her with a sudden flash of penetrating conviction. [6]
- The perfect happiness of Mena and Nefert was troubled by the fearful death of Katuti, but both felt as if they now for the first time knew the full strength of their love for each other. [10]
- The little schemes of little people were going on in all our cities and villages without thought of the fearful convulsion which was soon coming to shatter the hopes and cloud the prospects of millions. [6]
- The weak thread of his patience broke, and in a fearful passion he commanded the guards to behead me at once. [10]
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