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• The scene was terrible. (10)
• He can be terrible in wrath. (10)
• We used to think the idea of death so terrible! (10)
• A terrible time lies behind me. (12)
• He must be in a terrible state. (12)
• How terrible, wretched, humiliating! (8)
• It was chaos, massive and terrible. (12)
• He complains of its terrible weight. (10)
• It was terrible she seemed to feel so. (9)
• They say that the scene was terrible. (10)
• This man grew more and more terrible. (12)
• There you may see a truly terrible man. (10)
• Her sufferings will one day be terrible. (10)
• The annoyance of the bells must be terrible. (4)
• The terrible shears continued to torture her. (5)
• But {271} Proctor had made a terrible blunder. (19)
• The leaders are terrible men; they fascinate me. (10)
• Never before had they heard such terrible sounds. (19)
• There was time for the thought to flash through him: This is terrible! (8)
• Never had an Austrian force seemed to him so terrible. (10)
• He might do something terrible if they ill-treat Sheila. (8)
• That night the countryside was lit up by a terrible glow. (19)
• And the injustice of this silence seemed to her so terrible. (8)
• But the second and the third sketches betrayed the terrible hand. (10)
• Terrible was the blow, and the Mohawks suffered much that winter. (19)
• At home news of a terrible disaster awaited the victorious Hurons. (19)
• What terrible light Thompson and Bairam had thrown on some of them! (10)
• He would have spoken the effort fetched a burst of terrible chuckles. (10)
• Why, then, was the terrible test brought to bear upon him, of all men? (10)
• Every moment it seemed to me that that terrible silence must be broken. (12)
• But there was that terrible, nameless fear…. Oh, how can I explain it? (12)
• He also realized what terrible anxiety his absence would cause his mother. (5)
• A deep blood-crimson overcame the rouge, and gave her a terrible stormy look. (10)
• He is terrible, this coldly cruel, crafty, and masterful Odysseus of the Pacific. (2)
• This time he moved more slowly still, over terrible going, all holes and hummocks. (8)
• Their spirits were low, for the terrible spell of the great heat brooded upon them. (9)
• Richard held her silent with a terrible face; he grasped her arm, and put her behind him. (10)
• Their first glimpse of death; their first perception of that terrible remoteness of the dead! (8)
• We were under a terrible obligation to them, and I naturally wished him to be polite to them. (9)
• Perhaps my terrible sacrifice in leaving you two in uncertainty and want will move it to pity. (12)
• His fist, outstretched to the length of his arm, shook the reptile letter under a terrible frown. (10)
• He had never dreamed that to see her in the presence of the man who owned her would be so terrible. (8)
• Such terrible experiences were not confined to Montreal alone, or even to Quebec and Three Rivers. (19)
• To watch him even now makes one feel how terrible is that dumb grief which has never learned to moan. (8)
• He remained looking at her as if she had suddenly changed from a piquant mystery to a terrible dilemma. (9)
• And of how it was a terrible risk with Derek and darling Nedda, not at all a wise match, she was afraid. (8)
• The regiment of Haller hussars and two of volunteer uhlans were almost destroyed in that terrible charge. (10)
• There was a start among them, as if that terrible noise communicated an instinct of obedience, but no more. (10)
• When the widow spoke, the daughter seemed to listen with the terrible criticism of youth lurking in her eyes. (13)
• And a burden was carried by from which fluttered, with its terrible regularity, that utterance of mortal anguish. (9)
• Before the war was over a British general in the very capital city of the enemy had exacted terrible retribution. (19)
• He began to respect her, relishing her exquisite contempt, and he reflected that widows could be terrible creatures. (10)
• The heat was intense and the dust terrible, but every moment of the excursion was crowded with interest and novelty. (20)
• It was the desire to see how Christian would take the terrible thing in which he was, to all appearances, implicated. (12)
• A terrible illness raged throughout the garrison, and when spring came it was found that out of 3000 men 1200 had died. (19)
• Could the redoubtable Frontenac have thought {134} that the English colonists would bear this terrible treatment tamely? (19)
• Whether one may desire to free that poor devil from his terrible situation, or not, is a problem of decency and humanity. (12)
• I looked three or four years older than I was; but I experienced a terrible moment once when a fatherly Senator asked me my age. (9)
• Miss Desborough made an effort to trifle with this terrible directness; but his eyes would not be gainsaid, and checked her lips. (10)
• And the Ass vanished, and the Genie stood in his place, tall, dark, terrible as a pillar of storm to travellers ranging the desert. (10)
• But the French Governor made it a condition of the treaty that the New Englanders should help Canada to exterminate the terrible Iroquois. (19)
• Once again {262} England was, in 1812, as she had been in the days of the American Revolution, engaged in a terrible struggle with France. (19)
• Seeing Marko too, assured of it by his broken look, the terrible mournfulness less than the horrible irony of the truth gnawed within her. (10)
• But now as he read his eyes were fixed, and the delicate feminine handwriting like a black thread drew on his soul to one terrible conclusion. (10)
• He perceived that it went deeper than even fate would have gone; he could have fulfilled an evil destiny and had done with it, however terrible. (9)
• He gave her a definition of personal duty, and shadowed out all her own ideas on the subject; seeming thus to speak terrible, unanswerable truth. (10)
• But more, the birds of air, nay, grave owls (who stand in this metaphor for whiskered experience) thronged, dashing at the apparition of terrible splendour. (10)
• At the round table in a dining-room, all black oak, with many candles, and terrible portraits of departed ancestors, Anna sat between the magistrate and Gordy. (8)

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