`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` It was a terrible thing to do.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

Thompson, of course, was persuaded not to take the `` terrible step '' ; ;

A voice called, and what made it even more terrible and unreal was that the redcoat ranks never paused for an instant, only some of them glancing toward the stone wall, from behind which the voice came.

She patronized Greenwich Village artists for awhile, then put some money into a Broadway show which was successful ( terrible, but successful ).

The result, dramatically visible in a matter of days in the family's disrupted daily functioning, was a phobic-like fear that some terrible harm would befall the second twin, whose birth had not been anticipated.

He muttered something about how terrible it was, and walked with deliberate slowness to the elevator.

and there were his shoes, thank God, but his shirt was one terrible mess.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

Paneloux is at pains to emphasize that God did not will the calamity: " He looked on the evil-doing in the town with compassion ; only when there was no other remedy did He turn His face away, in order to force people to face the truth about their life " In Paneloux's view, even the terrible suffering caused by the plague works ultimately for good.

As he was dying " quite conscious and in terrible pain ", he gave his boots which he inherited from Kemmerich to Paul.

* The land between Egypt and Canaan of the first Exodus was a " great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland " ( Deut 8: 15 ), but in this new Exodus, the land between Babylon ( Mesopotamia ) and the Promised Land will be transformed into a paradise, where the mountains will be lowered and the valleys raised to create level road ( Isa 40: 4 ).

The text of Genesis-Numbers leaves no doubt as to the central concern of the priests: the cult of Yahweh was to be under the control of " Aaron and his sons " forever, and to the exclusion of all other priestly lines ( such as Korah, Dathan and Abiram, who meet terrible fates in Numbers 16-17 for challenging Aaron, but also the lines of David's priests Abiathar and Zadok, as well as the low-level Levites ).

The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.

Writing in 2010 Neil Finn said, " When we lost Paul it was like someone pulled the rug out from underneath everything, a terrible jolt out of the dark blue.

The resulting battle of Brunanburh — Dún Brunde — is reported in the Annals of Ulster as follows: a great battle, lamentable and terrible was cruelly fought ... in which fell uncounted thousands of the Northmen.

His son Franz suffered his entire life from an ( undiagnosed ) mental illness, his inferior intellect was a terrible disappointment to his father and this tragedy was a matter of distress to the mathematicians and students at Göttingen.

The biggest loss, of course, was the individual's lessened desire and ability to give his services to the growth of his company and our economy.

What Mr. Kennedy, in fact, wrote was: `` It is the Department's view that no anti-trust enforcement considerations justify any loss of revenue of this proportion ''.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

The loss in growth of sawtimber because of damage by destructive agencies in the United States in 1952 was estimated to be about 44 billion board feet.

About 45 percent of the loss in growth was attributable to disease, 20 percent to insects, 17 percent to fire, and 18 percent to weather, animals, and various other causes.

It was shown that by proper anode design the net energy loss of the arc to the anode could be reduced to approximately 15% of the total arc energy.

The radiation loss from the anode surface was computed according to Af where Af is the mean of the fourth powers of the temperatures Af and Af calculated analogously to equation ( 1 ).

They apologized for the condition, including dirt and flies, and I was a little at a loss to know what to say.

The big, 22-year-old shortstop, the 1960 American league `` rookie-of-the-year '', flew here late this afternoon from Baltimore, signed his contract for an estimated $15,000 and was a spectator at tonight's 5-to-3 loss to Kansas City -- the winless Birds' sixth setback in a row.

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

Turk Lown was tagged with the loss, his second against no victories, while Ray Moore won his second game against a single loss.

Five came up while Owen was listening to The Wrangler and he neglected to play, a loss of ten dollars.

She was limp and beaten from her loss ; ;

What she felt was a bone-deep loss with a sense of waste to it, not so much sorrow for handsome, ambitious Bobbie, but for the lost years that had been brought into high relief by his death.

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

Davis believed the loss of Johnston " was the turning point of our fate ".

The Bohr model of the atom fixed the problem of energy loss from radiation from a ground state ( by declaring that there was no state below this ), and more importantly explained the origin of spectral lines.

" More serious than the destruction of the Gothic army ," writes Herwig Wolfram, " than the loss of both Aquitanian provinces and the capital of Toulose, was the death of the king.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

In 1947, British rule in the South Asia was replaced by the sovereign, independent nations of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, resulting in the migration of millions people and significant loss of life and property.

The most serious consequence of this battle was not the loss of their possessions in Gaul to the Franks ; with Ostrogothic help, much of the Gallic territory was recovered, Herwig Wolfram notes, perhaps as far as Toulouse.

Nor was it the loss of the royal treasury at Toulouse, which Gregory of Tours writes Clovis took into his possession.