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Frightful in sentence

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The last four-and-twenty hours had produced a frightful alteration.
The eyes, though deeply sunk and heavy, shone with a lustre frightful to behold.
I often tell her that when she gets a little older she'll be quite frightful.
(Here there was a frightful relapse.)
It is only matter of wonder to those who were acquainted with the vices of his early career, that his passions, when no longer controlled by reason, did not lead him to the commission of still more frightful deeds.]
If I call out she'll alarm the house; but if I remain here the consequences will be still more frightful.'
Here Mr. Peter Magnus indulged in a prolonged sneer; and taking off his green spectacles--which he probably found superfluous in his fit of jealousy--rolled his little eyes about, in a manner frightful to behold.
King Lud flew into a frightful rage, tossed his crown up to the ceiling, and caught it again--for in those days kings kept their crowns on their heads, and not in the Tower--stamped the ground, rapped his forehead, wondered why his own flesh and blood rebelled against him, and, finally, calling in his guards, ordered the prince away to instant Confinement in a lofty turret; a course of treatment which the kings of old very generally pursued towards their sons, when their matrimonial inclinations did not happen to point to the same quarter as their own.
Can you hesitate to avail yourself of it, when it restores you to your friends, your old pursuits, your health and amusements; when it liberates your faithful and attached servant, whom you otherwise doom to imprisonment for the whole of your life; and above all, when it enables you to take the very magnanimous revenge--which I know, my dear sir, is one after your own heart--of releasing this woman from a scene of misery and debauchery, to which no man should ever be consigned, if I had my will, but the infliction of which on any woman, is even more frightful and barbarous.
The noise was frightful, but, above all, rose the voice of the young lady, urging my uncle on, and shrieking,"Faster!
'He's married.''Married!' exclaimed Pott, with frightful vehemence.
Private affliction also is the lot of every man; but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have been enough to shake my very soul.
The young ladies went, and Lady Middleton was happily preserved from the frightful solitude which had threatened her.
would not, perhaps, have been a great misfortune in time of war, seeing that it is nothing but a nest of Huguenots, but which is, in time of peace, a frightful example.
It was said Athos had met with great crosses in love, and that a frightful treachery had forever poisoned the life of this gallant man.
"Alas, alas!" said he to himself, "misfortune is over my head; my wife must have committed some frightful crime.
My!Whew!That’s a frightful place, that Bastille!
He hastened to descend into the street, with a frightful beating at his heart; he wished to see if he could find other traces of violence.
In the meantime the host and his wife hurried down with lamps into the cellar, which had so long been interdicted to them and where a frightful spectacle awaited them.
This somnambulism of drunkenness had something frightful in it.
"Really, this is frightful."
"Aramis, look at that horse!""Oh, the frightful brute!" said Aramis.
But how did this horse come into your bands, Mousqueton?""Pray," said the lackey, "say nothing about it, monsieur; it is a frightful trick of the husband of our duchess!"
The pale light of the first rays of day gave to her clear eyes a strangely frightful expression.
You understand, my dear girl," continued d’Artagnan, "she is the wife of that frightful baboon you saw at the door as you came in."
It was a frightful thing to see this wretch, leaving a long track of blood on the ground he passed over, pale with approaching death, trying to drag himself along without being seen to the body of his accomplice, which lay twenty paces from him.
"Ah!" cried he, on perceiving d’Artagnan, "ah! this is frightful!
I thought I had crushed you, madame; but either I was deceived or hell has resuscitated you!"Milady at these words, which recalled frightful remembrances, hung down her head with a suppressed groan.
"And does the husband of this frightful creature still live?" said Aramis.
"Nearly so.""But this is a frightful abuse of power!""No high-sounding words!
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