Frightful

Examples

• I have come back to the Barsoom that I saved from a painless death to again save her, but this time from death in its most frightful form. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I felt nothing but the natural human impulse to save him from a frightful death. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Now, about some things, St. Clare is really frightful--he frightens me--good-natured as he looks, in general. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I was silent: the things were frightful. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But, here--here it is frightful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Do you imagine that this anaemic youth was capable of so frightful an assault? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Tom shuddered at these frightful words, spoken with a sullen, impassioned earnestness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Her eyes gleamed like fire as she confronted his mother, and broke into a frightful laugh. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I tremble at the frightful danger into which our husbands, our friends, our brave troops and allies, are rushing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He is beset by sharpers: John is sunk and degraded--his look is frightful--I feel ashamed for him when I see him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She wept over her little girl; she looked, she spoke, as if she dreaded the occurrence of some frightful calamity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He makes tremendous rows,--roars, and pegs at the floor with some frightful instrument. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The second sword I withdrew noiselessly, but the third clanked in its scabbard with a frightful din. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Madame was a great deal too ill, and had been in a frightful state ever since her husband's departure, so her bonne said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is frightful, messieurs. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The agonies that woman has endured are quite frightful to hear of. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It is frightful--this taking to buying whistles and blowing them in everybody's hearing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Excess had brought on that frightful disease that seems to throw the lurid shadows of a coming retribution back into the present life. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Spectral or not, here truly was nothing frightful, and I advanced. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The last four-and-twenty hours had produced a frightful alteration. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There is nothing frightful in such a picture, is there, Miss Price? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She poured out a cup, and drank it with a frightful avidity, which seemed desirous of draining the last drop in the goblet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I'm Cap'n here, though, I'll have you to understand, you swab, shrieked Snipes, with a volley of frightful oaths. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The balance of the frightful herd was now circling rapidly and with bewildering speed about the little knot of victims. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The back is Guster's bedroom, and in it she's a-carrying on, poor thing, to a frightful extent! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Oliver nearly swooned after this frightful scene, and was so weak that for an hour or more, he had not the strength to walk. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• With a frightful roar the great beast sprang among the assemblage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• You may well say so, ma'am: it was frightful! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The jokes were frightful, and merciless against him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Miss Crawford's letter, which she had read so often as to make every line her own, was in frightful conformity with it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

Edited by Donnie