Do we say fearful or fearsome

fearful 3348 occurrences

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.

fearsome 135 occurrences

At first sight I got a fearsome shock, for I thought he was dead of suffocation.

His fearsome wand will raise, The night is filled with splendour,

Through all the hours of darkness The fearsome fight will last; They are leaping white with anger, And the blows are falling fast

and so braw he will bundle the straw The Little Old Man of the Barn. YON FAIRY DOG. 'Twas bold MacCodrum of the Seals, Whose heart would never fail, Would hear yon fairy ban-dog fierce Come howling down the gale; The patt'ring of the paws would sound Like horse's hoofs on frozen ground, While o'er its back and curling round Uprose its fearsome tail.

A fearsome vision flaming to mine eyes O beating heart that bleeds!

In yonder gleam Of fearsome flame, the horrors of my dream Are now accomplishedall we loved and cherished, And sought, and fought for, in that pyre have perished!" White-lipped they heard....

But the doomed women little dreamed that they Would have such fearsome end ...

A low, weird cry The great Finn gave, as he fell back and swooned In vain they strove to stanch the fearsome wound His life ebbed slowly with the sun's last ray In gathering gloom ...

He was "big as a stirk," one informant has declared The "fearsome tail" appears to have been not the least impressive thing about it.

But in the valley Autumn was a fearsome hag, a little crazy, two-double, gathering sticks in a scarlet cloak.

She had barely reached him when Bella, in a state of fearsome glee, came down the garden to tell the captain of his visitor.

[Illustration: "Bella, in a state of fearsome glee, came down the garden to tell the captain of his visitor.

Alessandro fell away and lay, breathing heavily in a fearsome heap.

A native came into hospital only yesterday with his arm all torn and mauled by a leopard, but, though I have walked miles through the jungle, I have seen nothing more fearsome than a black-beetle, and that I might have seen at home.

but it is a fearsome storm.

The wind soughed amid the headstones and railings of the gentry (for we must all die), and the black corbies in the steeple-holes cackled and crawed in a fearsome manner.

Yet the business, though fearsome in the main, was in some parts almost laughable.

Mr. Benn was digging like one possessed, only pausing at intervals to straighten his back and to cast a fearsome glance around him.

She remembered the city, bigger and grander than fifty Amalons, with magnificent stores filled with exotic novelties and fearsome luxuries from the land of the wicked Gentile.

No sooner had the car come down the road than we heard the fearsome sizzling of an approaching shell.

The ammunition-train in process of being unloaded is a fearsome affair.

Like hearts that unburdened From grief come to weeping, And smile 'mid their tears At old sorrows past; So my sunny waters, The white rapids leaping, From dark fearsome valleys Come singing at last.

They were so fearsome that we'd go into her room.

Hour by hour the fight goes on, Till the silent battle's won; Vainly do Bacilli shirk When their deadly foe's at work; Every microbe faints with fright At the fearsome Phagocyte.

When there I entered in to fire my rage, Half fearsome of the mounting of my ire, It happened otherwise than I had thought.

Do we say   fearful   or  fearsome