For, even as Percival ceased speaking, there suddenly entered the pavilion a certain very large and savage knight of an exceedingly terrible appearance; and his countenance was very furious with anger.

The terror and agitation of Agrippina showed to every one that she at least was guiltless of this dark deed; but the unhappy Octavia, young as she was, and doubly terrible on every ground as the blow must have been to her, sat silent and motionless, having already learnt by her misfortunes the awful necessity for suppressing under an impassive exterior her affections and sorrows, her hopes and fears.

The thought is inconceivably terrible, and probably the more so because it is so fragmentary.

The reign of Domitian, indeed, who succeeded his brother Titus, was scarcely less terrible and infamous than that of Caius or of Nero; but that prince, shortly before his murder, had dreamt that a golden neck had grown out of his own, and interpreted the dream to indicate that a better race of princes should follow him.

Death in any form brought upon us by surprise, and for which the mind has had no time to prepare, is inexpressibly terrible.

There is something strangely terrible, something peculiarly inhuman, in the silent stealth of this war of the blind.

As to the situation, it was doubtless terrible, it was doubtless tragical, and blood flowed, but who had brought about this situation?

He actually has supplanted him in certain of the West Indian islands, where the sin of the white in enslaving the black has been visited upon the head of the wrongdoer by his victim with a dramatically terrible completeness of revenge.

To these experiences we owe not only those excellent drinking songs, John Barleycorn and Willie Brewed a Peck o' Maut, but the headlong fun of Tam O'Shanter, the visions, grotesquely terrible, of Death and Dr. Hornbook, and the dramatic humor of the Jolly Beggars.

Constantly varying, its transformations were like those of the chief among demons, in that they were always indescribably magnificent and always indescribably terrible.

I neede not feare, death cannot offer wrong; The majestie of thy presaging face, Would vanquish him, though nere so terrible.

Several volumes of poetry were issued during those fifteen years, notably L'Année Terrible, Les Quatre Vents de l'Esprit, and a second series of La Légende des Siècles, none perhaps equal as a whole to the best of his earlier volumes, but all, especially the second-named, abounding in beautiful and striking poetry.

His form seemed magnified against the sky till it was of unearthly size and terrible to look ondoubly terrible to those who know him.

The dogs are the main sufferers by this continuance of phenomenally terrible weather.

Sometimes the ludicrous element entirely disappears, and we have the purely terrible,the terrible in itself, as in "The Tower of Lahneck,"the terrible in pathos, as in "The Work-House Clock,"the terrible in penitence and remorse, as in "The Lady's Dream,"the terrible in temptation and despair, as in "The Dream of Eugene Aram.

The "Archives" had furnished a continuous narrativesurely one of the strangest ever committed to writingand now I was to read the climax of that romantically terrible story; to witness the final achievement of that object that my poor friend had pursued with such unswerving pertinacity.

Upon these occasions there was something inconceivably, savagely terrible in his anger, that gave to the person against whom it was directed the most humiliating and insupportable sensations.

He was not rugged, nor was he loud-spoken, as his venerable trainer would have liked to present him to society; but he was as serenely terrible as a well-aimed rifle, and the old man looked upon his results with pride.

Frantz interred the remains of these unfortunate beings in consecrated groundimmediately quitted Steingart resigned a preferment which had (from the singularly terrible incident thus connected with his possession of it) equally alarmed and disgusted himmarried Adelinda upon his return to Leipzigand gradually became an exemplary member of Society.

Tremors, born within me that day when old gray, bristling Leggett, our Principal, opened the schoolroom door upon Lucy Tait, are as poignant, as sweetly terrible, now as in that far time when the light of her wondrous presence first fell upon me.

And the sound of that name, for some extraordinary reason, was terribleutterly terrible; so that Harris shook from head to foot as he heard it.

Who is this quarrelsome Mr. Butler?" "An Ormond-Butler," she said, earnestly; "butbut he has had troublea terrible disappointment in love, they say.

It was unspeakably terrible.

The lines deepened, the lips set in a hard line, the eyes were like those of a reptile,cold, passionless, unutterably terrible.

I ain't terrible backward with the trigger finger, John Mark.