As she did not speak, but merely drew closer to me, and held fast my hand, I had no idea of her real distress till we were actually at the mouth of the black and very frightful-looking passage, and the pilot had lighted the electric lamp.

" In the course of little more than half an hour we emerged from the tunnel, whose gloom, when once the attraction of novelty was gone, was certainly unpleasant to myself, if not by any means so frightful as Eveena still found it.

Then making a frightful face at Lenore, most expressive of ridicule and revenge, she darted up-stairs.

Whatever his youth or his impelling spirit of manhood, the fact was that he inspired many of these veterans of the bloody years to Homeric narratives of the siege of Verdun, of the retreat toward Paris, of the victory of the Marne, and lastly of the Kaiser's battle, this last and most awful offensive of the resourceful and frightful foe.

Amid all the frightful loss and wastage, the race is strengthened, the country is made afresh, a good civic example is given by such healthy prodigality as Mathieu and Marianne had shown.

I have nothing but water in my head o' nights since this frightful accident.

But it is still urged, sir, that there is a necessity of manning the fleet; a necessity which, indeed, cannot totally be denied, though a short delay would produce no frightful consequences, would expose us to no invasions, nor disable us from prosecuting the war.

Like the Algerian Angad, which extends to the south of Tlemsen, it is of frightful sterility, particularly in summer.

" "Thou speakest with a frightful meaning!

I know not the reason, but to me thou hast ever seemed to feel the hope with which thou hast cheered the prisoner; while now, thou seemest to have even a frightful pleasure in despair.

Robespierre and other self-constituted leaders in Paris held sway for a while, and the most frightful massacres of nobles and priests ensued.

The waves rolled high, and the little schooner plunged about in a manner frightful to a landlubber.

As the little craft rose and fell in that frightful sea, it seemed doubtful if they would reach the shore.

This frightful sight was seen, and these dreadful noises were heard by him for several miles together: and coming to a place where he thought he heard a company of fiends coming forward to meet him, he stopped, and began to muse what he had best to do.

Ah! as for myself in this frightful battle-field of civil war, I would rather die than kill.

Nothing could be more frightful than the interior of the captured barricade.

In about half an hour's time the creature began to howl in a frightful manner, and it did not expire until daybreak.

But the place was filled with frightful serpents, and strewn with diamonds.

At nightfall, however, a frightful giant entered, and began to feel the men one by one, till he found the fattest, and him the giant roasted over a fire and ate like a chicken.

On his sixth voyage Sindbad was wrecked on the most frightful mountain which no ship could pass.

His rage was silenced at sight of the sacred seal, and, removing the cap, smoke issued, which, taking vast shape, became a terrible genie frightful to see.

Then the sultan offered rewards to any who should cure her of this frightful madness, and many physicians came and failed.

While I waited for her to cease watching over me, that frightful mood passed away.

Some frightful spectacle was usually provided to magnify authority.

Many of them had lost wives and children in one of the most frightful butcheries of history, and a butchery for which they themselves were responsible, because it was the inevitable and logical effect of their own intellectual limitations.