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dreadful and fear
We have so many new things to fear in this age of nuclear weapons, dreadful things which are too horrible to contemplate.
Under his threats and the dreadful fear of failure, she labours on with it, making herself mentally and physically ill. Nessie secretly writes to Mary asking her to come back, so she will have her company and comfort.
Politicians and community leaders on both sides whipped up mutual suspicion and fear, culminating in dreadful events such as the riots during the Muslim League's Direct Action Day of August 1946 in Kolkata ( then " Calcutta "), in which more than 5, 000 people were killed and many more injured.
I fear for you the punishment of a dreadful day !".

dreadful and entered
Every illumination of blue lights was accompanied by a shower of rockets, some of which entered the head of the column, passing through to the rear, causing death, wounds, and dreadful lacerations from the long bamboos of twenty or thirty feet, which are invariably attached to them '.
The remainder went south to Rapihu, then crossed the Sinai, a desert inhabited by dreadful and dangerous animals, and entered Egypt.
Other established characters in the TV series included The Man with the Stick, who wore a paper helmet daubed with drawings of what he had witnessed during the last week, and carried a stick with a mystery item attached to the end ; Graham Lister, Reeves ' nemesis who regularly entered the talent show, " Novelty Island ", with a series of dreadful acts ; Donald and Davey Stott, two brothers from the North East with high-pitched voices, who would recreate popular television game shows ; Tinker's Rucksack, a pair of ramblers, one of whom was conducting an affair with the other's wife ; and ' Judge Lionel Nutmeg ', a judge who presided over the " That's Justice " segment of the show.
Every illumination of blue lights was accompanied by a shower of rockets, some of which entered the head of the column, passing through to the rear, causing death, wounds, and dreadful lacerations from the long bamboos of twenty or thirty feet, which are invariably attached to them.

dreadful and my
Describing his new bishopric, Gregory lamented how it was nothing more than an " utterly dreadful, pokey little hole ; a paltry horse-stop on the main road ... devoid of water, vegetation, or the company of gentlemen ... this was my Church of Sasima!
Stowe sometimes changed the story's voice so she could give a " homily " on the destructive nature of slavery ( such as when a white woman on the steamboat carrying Tom further south states, " The most dreadful part of slavery, to my mind, is its outrages of feelings and affections — the separating of families, for example .").
to which, Mr. Donne was not able to make a present answer: but, after a long and perplext pause, did at last say, I have seen a dreadful Vision since I saw you: I have seen my dear wife pass twice by me through this room, with her hair hanging about her shoulders, and a dead child in her arms: this, I have seen since I saw you.
I quite agreed with him, but when I told him of my dreadful run of bad luck, and the little I had, he said he was bound to admit that if I had another string to play on, it was worth considering.
It was a dreadful ordeal, increasingly so the more sensitive the artist, I broke down in my health in London in the Spring of 1930, owing to these nerve-killing tortures.
Mercy Lewis v. Giles Corey: The Deposition of Mercy Lewis aged about 19 years who testified and said that on the 14th of April 1692 " I saw the Apparition of Giles Corey come and afflict me urging me to write in his book and so he continued most dreadfully to hurt me by times beating me & almost breaking my back tell the day of his examination being the 19th of April and then also during the time of his examination he did affect and tortor me most greviously: and also several times sense urging me vehemently to write in his book and I veryly believe in my heart that Giles Corey is a dreadful wizard for sense he had been in prison he or his appearance has come and most greviously tormented me.
Of working with Orson Welles on Ferry to Hong Kong, he said that it was: " dreadful, it was my nightmare film.
It was a dreadful idea and I bypassed it by doing Ro-Busters, which he hated-so I knew my story would be a hit " Although he had stayed with 2000 AD, and would go on to be the art editor there, Kevin O ' Neill provided the initial designs for Ro-Buster but would only draw the series later after its move to 2000 AD.
Looking back now, we can see that the great motive-power of the change was a longing for freedom and equality, akin if you please to the unreasonable passion of a lover ; a sickness of heart that rejected with loathing the aimless solitary life of the well-educated men of that time: phrases, my dear friend, which have lost their meaning to us of the present day ; so far removed we are from the dreadful facts which they represent.
Accordingly, I stepped down to him, and was much surprised to find him extended out upon the hearth, uttering most dreadful lamentations ; he stretched out his hand towards me and in a piteful tone of voice begg ’ d my assistance, and requested I would take pity upon a poor helpless abandoned wretch, who was not of the sex I had every reason to suppose.
The pun was dreadful, but it was my round and there seemed to be no-one to stop us .</ p >
" I recall my stunned admiration as I sat in the theater in 1987 and first experienced the crashing, descending chords of Madonna's ' Causing a Commotion ', which opened her dreadful movie Who's That Girl.

dreadful and consciousness
Depicting as they did what lay within the popular consciousness — events wonderful and dreadful painted in glaring colours and interpreted in a Christian sense — their influence was considerable.

dreadful and perhaps
During the pursuit, perhaps influenced by the dreadful state of the Polish roads, the savage winter weather and the relative ease with which his forces had dealt with Prussia, Napoléon had allowed the Grande Armée to become more spread out than was his custom.
Morgan had to read an Adler commercial heralding the new fall line of colors ; Morgan thought the colors were dreadful, and said he wouldn't wear them to a dogfight, but perhaps the listeners would like them.
1794 was perhaps as dreadful a year as the city of New Orleans ever experienced, as it was hit by two hurricanes in addition to a major fire.

dreadful and had
His eyes had the same dreadful rigid stare as Dr. Grimesby Roylott's when he was found before his open safe wearing the speckled band.
However, the following year she played Connie in Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive, noting it was " truly a dreadful film but I had a great part in it.
Their names were reported as Deino ( Δεινώ " dread ", the dreadful anticipation of horror ), Enyo ( Ἐνυώ " horror " the " waster of cities " who also had an identity separate from this sisterhood ) and Pemphredo ( Πεμφρηδώ " alarm ").
Some Zulus also had old muskets and antiquated rifles, though their marksmanship training was poor and the quality and supply of powder and shot dreadful.
The team had survived relegation twice ; first in 2005 after a dreadful start of the campaign, then in 2006 when the team only survived relegation by beating Bryne FK in the relegation playoffs.
She later said she knew on their wedding night she had made " a dreadful mistake ," and two months later she filed for divorce on grounds of desertion.
As the Dutch were in a leeward position their guns had a superior range and some English ships now took dreadful damage.
" He therefore responded in kind in Have With You To Saffron-Walden ( 1596 ) with various observations on Barnes: he was a bad poet, he had dreadful dress sense (..." getting him a strange pair of Babylonian britches, with a codpiece as big as a Bolognian sausage ...") and had been a coward on the field of battle during the wars in France.
While some Zulus also had firearms, their marksmanship training was poor and the quality and supply of powder and shot dreadful.
Trenchard defended Haig's policy of constant attack, arguing that it had been preferable to standing on the defensive and he also had maintained an offensive posture throughout the War which, like the infantry, had resulted in the Flying Corps taking dreadful casualties.
:: Those of us who are able to look back from thirty years hence on this tornado of death — will conclude with a dreadful laugh that if it had never come, the state of the world would be very much the same.
As a result of the Seals ' dreadful season, the Canadiens had the top pick in the draft, and used it to select future Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur.
" It often appeared to me that I had made a dreadful mistake in accepting the position in Mexico ," he wrote in the epilogue to his book, Norman Borlaug on World Hunger.
" He had a dreadful childhood, and as a result, had moments of deep melancholy ," Astor recalled.

dreadful and toward
Editorial enthusiasm for a dreadful doctrine still affects attitudes toward the newspaper.

dreadful and Viola's
Then, suddenly, Viola's own dreadful mother-in-law, Kevin's grandmother, Gertrude Fields ( Elaine Stritch ), appears and they have an argument.

dreadful and even
If a pedestrian now has even one hesitation or failure the chance of escape from a dreadful death is now much less than when all vehilcles were much slower.
John L. Finlay, in his book, Social Credit: The English Origins, wrote, “ Anti-Semitism of the Douglas kind, if it can be called anti-Semitism at all, may be fantastic, may be dangerous even, in that it may be twisted into a dreadful form, but it is not itself vicious nor evil .”
Janet Maslin, in The New York Times, wrote " The worst of it is painless ; the best is funny, sly, cheerful and, here and there, even genuinely inspired ", while Roger Ebert called it " truly dreadful ".
After this vision had closed, another great and glorious vision burst upon us ; for Elijah the prophet, who was taken to heaven without tasting death, stood before us, and said: Behold, the time has fully come, which was spoken of by the mouth of Malachi -- testifying that he should be sent, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord come -- To turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the children to the fathers, lest the whole earth be smitten with a curse -- Therefore, the keys of this dispensation are committed into your hands ; and by this ye may know that the great and dreadful day of the Lord is near, even at the doors.
Death on the stairs was considered extremely dishonourable and dreadful, yet several senators and even an emperor met their demise here.
Nepalese force stationed within the shelter of the fortress were not only able to defend their position against an invading enemy many times superior in strength but they even shocked them by their dreadful counteroffensive that used to be accompanied by big losses on British side.
" The slaughter within was even more dreadful than the spectacle from without.
The team's already dreadful attendance dropped even further.
( MacArthur even asked McLoughlin about the investigation of the " dreadful " murder.
1909, a summer equally as wet as 1907, was little better even if Hallam was twice unplayable against weak opponents on dreadful pitches.
Of course being struck by even a static chain may cause serious injury, but anything that can be done to mitigate the usually dreadful injuries caused by contact with a moving chain is of obvious benefit to operators.
Moffat explains that he added the dialogue because he believes that, as the Doctor does not tell even his closest companions his name, there must be a " dreadful secret " about it.

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