Sentences with phrase «by frightful»

Cloistered coral reefs of home are surrounded by frightful drop - offs and strong currents that can sweep a little fish out to an immense sea.

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and similar questions are any less frightful when they're delivered digitally rather than by a nosy neighbor.

Of particular importance in this regard, though little noted by historians or popular piety, are Nuechterlein's telling observations on the Lincoln who prosecuted the war through to its conclusion despite its frightful costs» whatever the popular and, in some sense, real perception of Lincoln as tenderhearted.

Even if the mob, or any of them, uttered the frightful curse ascribed by Matthew to «all the people,» that would not make the Jewish people of that day guilty, to say nothing of later generations.

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

For we must not forget that in addition to the open crime of the woman many other heinous things afflicted the people, e.g., speculation and the crushing of the poor by the privileged, as is suggested by the note on the frightful prices for the least bit of nourishment.

Frightful responsibility has been replaced by creative opportunity (1:17).

The crisis in America is taking place in a world threatened by truly frightful dangers.

Attrition the first two years (still referred to by players of that time as the Death March) was frightful.

He can eat thundering left and right hooks by the dozen, stagger around the ring like a Skid Road drunk, throw up between rounds from the force of the body blows, and then rise dutifully at the sound of the bell for another frightful three minutes of the same.

This is not Final Destination or even Saw, two deficient narratives kept afloat by nifty carnage, nor does it have have the frightful shock value of something like The Conjuring or even It.

The absolutely frightful looking off - roader was penned by MoAoun in three different shades, black, scarlet red and fluorescent yellow and it was granted various upgrades.

, the first novel by noted food writer Ruth Reichl; Bird Box, a frightful thriller by Josh Malerman; and Bittersweet, the intriguing third novel by Miranda Beverly - Whittemore.

Even if the weather outside is not so frightful, there's nothing like curling up by a fire with a good book and a nice warm beverage.

It's the mission of a nonprofit organization formed by a New York man who describes himself as a stockbroker, journalist, entrepreneur and business consultant — a frightful combination if ever there was one.

Each step magnifies the poisons by a factor of 10 so by the time they reach orca whales the quantities are astounding and frightful.

While the weather outside was frightful, gamers across the globe responded by purchasing a trio of games in droves this Winter.

It was named the fourteenth best game of the PS2 by IGN, saying «It preserved most of the original game's what - might - be-out-there fear, but with major advances to the graphics and sound, the game was able to deliver a far more immersive, frightful and compelling storyline.»

«Cosmetic Witches», meanwhile, are frightful apparitions, accompanied by their owl and frog «familiars» and exuding the banal beauty of plastic transformation.

Wappin» Wharf: a Frightful Comedy of Pirates by Charles S. Brooks, illustrations by Julia McCune Flory (1922)