3350 examples of fearful in sentences

Thrown upon the world with brutal passions scarcely controlled by a particle of reason, whirled hither and thither in a general and fearful cataclysm, he shows us preëminently the wonderful designs of Providence carried into effect, as it were, by a succession of blind and sudden impulses.

For a few moments he might maintain his footing upon the fearful peak; and then But as yet he is only Comandante de Campaña, escorting the rebel Aldao into San Luis.

At a shallow stream which they forded, in the mud of which the wheels became imbedded, resisting every effort for their release, Quiroga actually hooked the postmaster of the district, who had hastened to the spot, to the carriage, and made him join his exertions to those of the horses until the vehicle was extricated, when he sped onward with fearful velocity, asking at every post-station, "When did the chasquí from Buenos Ayres pass?

It was to me a very terrible one, dwelling much on hell and judgment, and what a fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God.

" She then tottered round the table, as with supernatural energy, and seizing the Laird's right hand, she drew it close to her unstable eyes, and then perceiving the emerald ring chased in blood, she threw up her arms with a jerk, opened her skinny jaws with a fearful gape, and uttering a shriek that made all the house yell, and every one within it to tremble, she fell back lifeless and rigid on the floor.

While thus engaged, however, a loud report, as if of a pistol, was heard immediately beneath the windows of the hotel, and was succeeded by a series of fearful screams and the shoutings of a terrified mob.

At last the work was ended at fearful cost; but as the vanguard sullenly withdrew behind it, from the whole length burst a havoc of flame upon the advancing Frenchmen.

I first made Miss Warrender's acquaintance as John Assheton, and some months had passed before I determined to try the fearful experiment I have mentioned.

There was in Eveena's language and demeanour a timiditya sort of tentative fearful venturing as on dangerous ground, feeling her way, as it were, in almost every sentencewhich could not be wholly attributed to the shyness of a very young and very suddenly wedded bride.

too well the meaning of this fearful, trembling anxiety to please, or rather not to offend.

But the young man ran on, half laughing, 'You know how you and the rest used to tell us what a sad thing it was that we were all cursed with consciences,what a fearful miserable burden moral responsibility was; but that we must submit to it as an inevitable evil.

The vicar recollected how he had seen the same sight at the door of Kensington Workhouse, walking home one night in company with Luke Smith; and how, too, he had commented to him on that fearful sign of the times, and had somewhat unfairly drawn a contrast between the niggard cruelty of 'popular Protestantism,' and the fancied 'liberality of the middle age.'

As soon as the schooner's bow touched the ground, she swung round broadside to the sea, which immediately began to break over her in a fearful manner.

The velvet-eyed descendant of Eve shot a fearful glance at him and continued, still casually tracing invisible arabesques with her foil's point.

Then, radiant, yet sweetly shamed, confident, yet fearful, she lifted her adorable head from his shoulder.

It was too much in the nature of an adverse proceeding to seem quite right to him; he was fearful that, somehow, it would estrange his mother from him.

One and all peered through their bars with watchful and fearful eyes.

In 1149 Archbishop Theobald brought to it Master Vacarius, a famous Lombard lawyer, who lectured on the Civil law until he was expelled by Stephen, half fearful of the new teaching and half influenced by the pressure of the older and more conservative of the English bishops.

During the intervals of this fearful suffering he was acutely conscious, but he invariably forgot everything again when the merciful unconsciousness came back.

[Footnote 1: Is this to be supposed in the original play, or inserted by Hamlet, embodying an unuttered and yet more fearful doubt with regard to his mother?]

Since the departure of the kingI would suggesthe has borne himself with evident apprehension, every now and then glancing about him, as fearful of what may follow his uncle's recognition of the intent of the play.

Passing through the air at this fearful speed fully five hundred feet above the ground was surely enough to excite them.

The fearful mice he catches are debtors, with whom scratching attorneys, like cats, play a good while, and then mouse them.

Over the gateway of that system, fearful words were written by the finger of God"HE THAT STEALETH

The causes of so fearful a degeneration of body and mind are not satisfactorily ascertained.

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