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Sentences starting with terrible

Terrible examples have taught you how he punishes disobedience and crime. [2]
Terrible moments drifted slowly by, and still the King ate, still he lived, still the lightnings of the insulted gods were withheld! [5]
Terrible doubts rose in his soul. [2]
Terrible stories of his Draconian severity were in circulation, and his first address gave us reason to fear the worst, for the tall man of forty in the professor's chair was very imposing in his appearance. [10]
Terrible anguish struck her heart, she felt a dreadful ache as if something was being torn inside her and she were dying. [2]
Terrible as was her grief, her heart had its comfort in the thought--who could rob her of that for ever?--that he would die a martyr. [11]
Terrible in battle... gallant... with the fair" (he winked and smiled), "that's what the French are, Monsieur Pierre, aren't they? [2]
Terrible suspicion for a Bostonian,--had he been carried away? [9]

Sentences ending with terrible

And that battery, when in action, must have been truly terrible. [9]
Too soon or too late... it is terrible! [2]
If I were to miss a dinner at my own house, it would be too terrible! [9]
I cannot propose to her at present, but the thought that perhaps she might someday be my wife and that I may be missing that possibility... that possibility... is terrible. [2]
And now during these last three weeks of the march he had learned still another new, consolatory truth--that nothing in this world is terrible. [2]
He realized that there was in Grier some touch of the insane thing; something apart, remote and terrible. [11]
Her arrival at the prison had been terrible. [10]
The revulsion was terrible. [5]
It is something terrible. [4]
It was very terrible. [14]

Short sentences using terrible

It is terrible to think.... [2]
This punishment was terrible. [11]
The tension was terrible. [11]
The silence was terrible. [10]
Is he very terrible, Denisov? [2]
Monsieur had spoken terrible things. [11]
Loneliness is a terrible thing. [11]
That was the terrible thing! [9]
This was a terrible revelation. [11]
Why such a terrible misfortune? [2]

Sentences containing terrible two or more times

But the man who knew of the terrible thing he had done, who had saved him from the consequences of that terrible thing, was in sore trouble, and this broke down the gloomy guard he had kept over his dread secret. [11]
Repeatedly, during three terrible days, they swarmed up the little Malakoff hill, and were beaten back with terrible slaughter. [5]
For years he had regarded Byng as culpable, for keeping as his servant one whom the Partners all believed to be a spy; but now another, a terrible thought came to him, too terrible to put into words--even in his own mind. [11]
Rostov saw tears filling the Emperor's eyes and heard him, as he was riding away, say to Czartoryski: "What a terrible thing war is: what a terrible thing! [2]
War at the best is terrible, and this of ours in its magnitude and duration is one of the most terrible the world has ever known. [7]

More example sentences with the word terrible in them

A Numidian, the youngest of the legion, a beardless youth, had pinned the terrible conqueror of lions and men to the bed with his spear, and then, with the same weapon, had released at least a dozen of his fellow-sufferers from their pain. [10]
It will teach you to understand the other terrible things. [10]
It was a year after that terrible affair of the necklace, and she wished to be distracted from thinking of the calumnies which were being heaped upon her. [9]
Even as he would have understood the peasant's murder of King Louis, so he would have seen a logical end to a terrible game in Bigot's death at the hand of Voban. [11]
Dinner is serious work, for he sweats at it as much as at his labor, and he is a terrible fastener on a piece of beef. [4]
He must have witnessed something very terrible, for his face was as pale as death, and his usually confident and swaggering manner had given place to a stricken and care-worn air. [10]
I was to witness the terrible solution of this dilemma. [10]
Rumour reported that, with the huge sword he wielded, he had dealt from his powerful charger blows as terrible as those inflicted five-and-twenty years before when, not far from the same spot, he struck Archelaus on the head. [10]
She saw now with a terrible clearness the thing which for so long had been but a vague premonition of disaster, and for a while she forgot the clippings. [9]
It comes suddenly with a terrible blow of truth. [13]
One of the wig-making villains lathered my face for ten terrible minutes and finished by plastering a mass of suds into my mouth. [5]
He tried his wife's love and patience as a man must to whom the future is easy in the mass but terrible as it translates itself piecemeal into the present. [8]
And Caracalla yielded, while her hand moved as lightly over the brow of the terrible man as when years ago it had soothed her mother to sleep. [10]
The pass to which the Egyptians had brought them within the last few hours had been so terrible, that even the better natures among the Hebrews did not think of curbing the thirst for vengeance. [10]
Her lips, too, which she had but rarely and timidly opened for a question or an answer, were in constant motion; for how much she desired to know, how many questions she had to ask the silent husband who had endured such terrible suffering. [10]
The terrible misfortune which had now befallen him had only bound her more firmly to the man she loved. [10]
We shall see what these pleasure-lovers will do when they are forced to confront, the terrible reality. [10]
He also realized what terrible anxiety his absence would cause his mother. [10]
The thought of what might happen when, after these days of working for her bread ended, still more terrible ones followed, had troubled her again and again the day before. [10]
Pretty Pierre's eyes were never taken off the other, whose gaze, again, was fixed upon the bottle with a terrible fascination. [11]
My Dear Hessie, we have been two days on Mont Blanc, in the midst of a terrible hurricane of snow, we have lost our way, and are in a hole scooped in the snow, at an altitude of 15,000 feet. [5]
His voice, which was usually low and full of melody, could be something terrible when it rose in denunciation of sin. [4]
My only thought was to get away from the terrible Thing. [11]
Even the enemy was the same as at Austerlitz and Friedland--yet the terrible stroke of his arm had supernaturally become impotent. [2]
That in itself was terrible enough, yet it was not the drunkenness alone that had sickened Janet, but the suggestion of something else. [9]
Yet what atonement was still in her power, after the death which she had summoned had performed its terrible work of executioner? [10]
The year 1735 was rendered sadly memorable by the epidemic of the terrible disease known as "throat distemper," and regarded by many as the same as our "diphtheria. [3]
A terrible storm was raging in the lady's soul. [10]
The vicomte who was meeting him for the first time saw clearly that this young Jacobin was not so terrible as his words suggested. [2]
Paula's terrible end was fast approaching, and his brain burned at the mere thought. [10]
A Dominican friar was ever in his chamber, telling the rosary for him and doing him other ghostly service, especially in the night season, when he was haunted by terrible restlessness. [10]
To Guida, who was both of the sea and of the land, fearless as to either, it was neither terrible nor desolate to be alone with the storm. [11]
When any one was bleeding to death every moment might bring the terrible "too late. [10]
Once more there was a terrible noise and clatter among the audience, and with rapturous faces everyone began shouting: "Duport! [2]
The chief reason was a sudden, vivid sense of the terrible contrast between something infinitely great and illimitable within him and that limited and material something that he, and even she, was. [2]
The Debil-debil Waterhole was a long way off, and through a terrible country--quartz plains, ragged scrub, and little or no water all the way. [11]
If a man wants to be famous, he had much better try the advertising doctor than the terrible editor, whose waste-basket is a maw which is as insatiable as the temporary stomach of Jack the Giant-killer. [6]
And yet I want to face the situation--I'm trying to get you to face it, to realize how terrible it is. [9]
The crowd outside waited in a terrible anxiety. [11]
When his deep voice had such a tone of gloomy discouragement, and his head drooped so mournfully, some terrible event had befallen him. [10]
If he is visited by infirmity--only look at me!--how much misery I have suffered from this curse, terrible enough in itself, and tainting everything with the bitterness of wormwood! [10]
True, he has vanquished foes enough, but the demon of melancholy, that makes even Dr. Mathys anxious, is far worse than the infidels before whom you were compelled to retreat in Algiers--far more terrible than the Turks and heretics combined. [10]
But for their usefulness in partially cleansing these terrible streets, they would not be tolerated long. [5]
But most of us were in a hurry to get to the countries where war had already become a grim and terrible reality. [9]
Music arouses in us various emotions, but not the more terrible ones of horror, fear, rage, etc. [1]
She often told us how highly French was valued in the capital, and we must believe that the language possesses an imperishable charm for Germans when we remember that this was the case so shortly after the glorious uprising against the terrible despotism of France. [10]
It had been undertaken by the mandate of the great god Amon, so he had little to dread from Mesu's terrible power. [10]
Always in a tumult; always like a loaded pistol, and these terrible headaches too! [10]
In the terrible tumult of her heart she had forgotten to eat or to drink since early morning, and at last, in the afternoon, some one knocked at the door, and the landlady called her. [10]
A terrible evil, truly, to the Illinois farmer, who never wore, nor ever expects to wear, a single yard of British goods in his whole life. [7]
The slender fingers trembled in his clasp, and when, with loving anxiety, he drew her towards him, he felt the tremor of her delicate limbs, while her eyes expressed bitter suffering and terrible dread. [10]
In the one tower of the citadel there were prisons of tolerably pleasant aspect, but she had heard whispers of terrible subterranean dungeons connected with the secret tribunal. [10]
She"--jerking a finger towards the house--"she earns what you eat, she--" It was the last word he ever spoke, for, with a low terrible cry, the Seigneur snatched up a knife from the table and sprang upon him, catching him by the throat. [11]
These thoughts were too terrible to dwell upon, and again she would have recourse to the street, now trodden by fewer feet, and darker and more silent than before. [12]
We have sung to you; we have spoken to you; we have told you what is in our hearts; we have shown you how good is the end of those who are faithful, and how terrible is the end of the traitor. [11]
It seemed terrible to wait, when here before her was news of David, of life or death. [11]
Out-doors was terrible to those who looked out of windows, and heard the raging wind, and saw the commotion in all the high tree-tops and the writhing of the low evergreens, and could not summon resolution to go forth and breast and conquer the bluster. [4]
And how terrible to think that all the spiritual beauty of such a religion should have been hardened into chapter and verse and regulation. [9]
If I wanted to take Dred Scott from his master, I would be interfering with property, and that terrible difficulty that Judge Douglas speaks of, of interfering with property, would arise. [7]
He had forgotten to strengthen himself with food and drink, and the terrible blows of fate which had fallen upon him during these last hours of trial crushed, though but for a short time, his still vigorous strength. [10]
David's figure seemed to shrink for a moment, his face had a withered look, and his head fell forward in a mood of terrible dejection. [11]
I don't want to shock you, and I know how terribly you and father must feel, but I can see now, somehow, that I had to go through this experience, terrible as it was, to find myself. [9]
To be married to one constitutionally untrue would be more terrible a fate for her than to be linked to him in a lighter, more dissoluble a bond. [11]
Now, in relation to my not having said anything about the quotation from the Chicago speech: he thinks that is a terrible subject for me to handle. [7]
The instinctive bringing to life was there, and the divining helplessness and the terrible accusation of the stricken. [13]
Now he clung to her with a desperation that was terrible, as though to let go of her would be to fall into nameless voids beyond human companionship and love. [9]
D.W.] The blow to her father was terrible, but heavy as it was, one may perhaps understand that her passing in that swift, painless way must have afforded him a measure of relief. [5]
You ought never to have married me,--it was all a terrible mistake. [9]
Doubtless he longed to hasten at once to Daphne, but he felt that he could not take leave of her until he had first cast off, as his heart and mind dictated, the terrible burden which oppressed his soul. [10]
The ground seemed to groan at the terrible impact. [2]
Still, she longed to free herself from a desire to see what his further career would be, which came over her again and again with overwhelming and terrible power. [10]
Everything is done to deprive him of the remains of his reason and to prepare him for his terrible part. [2]
But I was to blame, I oughtn't to have stayed, I knew all along that something would happen--something terrible that I hadn't any right to stay. [9]
She had reason to believe so when she recalled how the Regent and the Keeper of the Seal had received the terrible news. [10]
It was untrue to be sure, but still it was terrible, and she could not help thinking of it. [2]
Everything was assumed to be possible for Napoleon, they expected him from every side, and invoked his terrible name to shatter each other's proposals. [2]
If they were to be destroyed, it would necessarily be in a few seconds from the first thrill of the terrible convulsion. [6]
He besought Nemesis to be content, and not add to blindness new tortures to augment the terrible ones which rent his soul, and he did so with all the ardour of his passionate nature. [10]
It is going to be a terrible autobiography. [5]
He was helpless to alter the course of events, to stay a terrible possibility. [11]
At the same time, methought that for certain some new and terrible sorrow hung over us nay, never so clearly as then, after Abenberger's violent attack, had I perceived how much alone and without protection I stood in the world. [10]
There was little, time to escape from this terrible wooer. [10]
It is high time for you to get away from these terrible recollections. [2]
Only a short time before, it is true, he had scarcely been able to stand erect, but the terrible news which had assailed him had quickly sobered him. [10]
You know the tidings this terrible day has brought? [10]
I shall get through; but I witnessed a terrible sight to-day at the tailor's, who mends my clothes. [10]
We could hear through the door the good priest's voice in prayer and benediction, pronouncing absolution over the dying man, and at times my grand uncle's wrathful tones, feeble indeed, but terrible to hear. [10]
He had been through that terrible battle of the Somme, and he knew. [9]
Our big hound threw you down-and he has terrible teeth. [10]
Sobbing aloud, she threw herself at his feet, confessed that she was guilty, and remorsefully admitted that fear of his resentment, which seemed to her more terrible than death, had induced her to deny what she had done. [10]
I had never thought that wild Miriam could speak so sweetly, I was overcome with terrible grief, and kissed her eyes and her lips. [10]
It seemed as though the tempest had seized the ends of the rope, and was dealing terrible blows with them upon her shoulders, her back, and her feet. [10]
To enjoy it, though but for a brief season, she ought not to refuse to bear the hardest, most terrible things, and, if what was now her secret became rumoured among the people, to accept humiliation, shame, and scorn. [10]
The sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around him merged in Rostov's mind into a single feeling of terror and pity for himself. [2]
Such escapades as those of that terrible old sinner and ancestor of great men, the Reverend Stephen Bachelder, interest him as they never did before. [6]
When, when was this terrible affair decided? [2]
To have all this destroyed was a terrible thought, but even more unbearable was that of its object--to receive the body of the Queen. [10]
You never need think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming and scattering of the horrid little population that dwells under it. [6]
It's terrible to think of this phenomenon. [5]
Years are terrible things, an' for years you've been bound. [13]

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