Terrible will be the first shock of battle, and it may be daily expected, and dreadful will be the consequences to the poor inhabitants of the seat of war.

Dreadful was the shock And perilous to Rustem; but when Rakush Perceived the contest doubtful, furiously, With his keen teeth, he bit and tore away The dragon's scaly hide; whilst quick as thought The Champion severed off the ghastly head, And deluged all the plain with horrid blood.

Dreadful was the onset, and the fury with which the conflict was continued.

In uttering them you pronounce my dooma doom more dreadful than death, which would be light in comparison with losing you.

" "If the princess is pleased that her servant should die," returned the lady, "let her command some death less dreadful than enclosure in this horrid cavern.

But he had a calamity yet more dreadful than poverty to encounter.

There is nothing in existence more dreadful than rage which is impotent, which cannot punish or avenge, which has to restrain itself and put up with insults showered upon it.

I have heard enough to make fancy perhaps more dreadful than reality, Mr. Howard.