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

All about it, the sky had become black, with a clear, deep blackness, frightful in its nearness, and its unmeasured deep, and its utter unfriendliness.

But there was nothing of this appeared; but as we made nearer and nearer the shore, the land looked more frightful than the sea.

We are still only in the turbulent childhood of our career, and frightful as our excesses are, there is a motive behind them that makes them profoundly different from the wars of old.

Very nice for a week or so, but frightful for a winter.

And to-day, through that bloody breach, their Blaise departed in the most frightful of fashions, crushed as it were by the jealous anger of destiny.

During the first fortnight in December the weather had proved frightful at Chantebled, icy rains being followed by snow and terrible cold.

The mental agony of the Doge formed a contrast so frightful with the heartless and cruel insensibility of the son, that the sight chilled their blood.

III.The Shadow of Crime With famine came typhus fever, and the state of the country was frightful beyond belief.

In searching for the picturesque and the grandeur of nature, it is perfectly safe to go to those places which the peasant declares to be frightful by their ugliness.

This frightful chargefor no other adjective can describe itwas made by General French's division, supported by General Hancock.

We passed up near the statue of St. Peter, who was to-day dressed out in his papal robes, his black face (for it is of bronze) looking rather frightful from beneath the splendid tiara which crowned his head, and the scarlet-and-gold tissue of his robes.

Yet innocent and tiny though it be, there is something frightful about it.