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This wallpaper will make a mess when we strip it and there is nothing like trying to get soggy bits of wallpaper out of a carpet! Jack was frightful when it came to preparation … brilliant at decorating, but I was always the one who had to think ahead and make contingency plans
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’ I said quietly, pausing in my task of sandwich making and staring into the past for a moment, remembering those frightful days when I had tried to sort through the accumulation of a lifetime of marriage
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Upon it Kate and Lady Ashley projected a frightful image of a terrible looking creature
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Seems pretty frightful to me, but I daresay the quantity of water in the wasteg does the job without pollution being a problem
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‘Oh? In what way?’ I explain that my boyfriend (what a frightful term but what else do I call him?) has moved in with me
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The mother wanted to call the little girl ‘Bunty’ but Bunty wouldn’t have it, said that it was a frightful name for a child and suggested Gail
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Poor Terry, she was in such a frightful state and why? Because some ‘friend’ decided to stir things …that makes me angry … relationships are complicated enough without outside interference
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It’d been frightful the other night, but right then it wasn't anything more than another house
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Suddenly the ice gave way, with a frightful crack, and fell away
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“Its that's blasted TV Robert bought it has no proper channels its all so terrifying, frightful, Paul its driving us out of our minds!”
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"They have few eyewitness accounts," Alfred replied, "and we weren't alien enough, we were two men and a woman and a frightful sky ship
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and in such frightful a fashion that I wonder, still, what I had
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As a result, what could have been a pleasant and fruitful life for her was constantly interrupted by thoughts of ineptitude and feelings of despair due to her frightful failing to find peace in her daily journey ahead on the many and varied paths she followed
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Lady Dread is a very frightful group of people
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On July 7th, a frightful storm raged, swamping the trenches and adding to the difficulties and discomforts of the army
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Had injudicious censorship allowed news of the plight of our forces to reach Madrid, Spain would have hurled its strength towards the city's defences, to save a national disgrace by assault at frightful sacrifice
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"Calling the Sewage Department wasn’t a very good idea though, because they left the house in a frightful mess, what with ripping up the floors in a search of a non-existent broken sewer pipe
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Like a bolt from the blue, the little box wailed its frightful pitch, shattering his dreams
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Only they could scream in that frightful way
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There I was greeted by a middle-aged man with some frightful scars on his face and arms
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beasts into an almost maniacal state, drenched them with incense and wine, and decked them with frightful instruments
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frightful look that could have been mistaken as a smile
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45 And the master of the elephants urged the beasts into an almost maniacal state drenched them with incense and wine and decked them with frightful instruments
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After all, who would dare brave such a frightful night?
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I was concerned about the effect this display could have on clients, not about the frightful Frances
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This time, there was a frightful howling noise, then they saw the wolves who lived all across the fields and hills go running off into the distance as if their tails were on fire
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But it is quite possible that he might think: “What a frightful crime is that man' s drunkenness; how terrible is its effect upon his wife and children!
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They could no longer see the flying figure, but they still heard his frightful screams, dwindling in the distance, and echoing as from vaulted roofs
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'Thaug!' As in answer to that frightful invocation there boomed a thunderous croaking from within the temple, the snapping of wood and metal
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It was a war of souls, of frightful brains steeped in lore forbidden to men for a million years, of mentalities which had plumbed the abysses and explored the dark stars where spawn the shadows
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the Israelites were given a frightful choice –
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A frightful scene met his glare
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She was caught in a frightful trap
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Then Balthus forgot his exasperation as his ears were outraged by the most frightful cry he had ever heard
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The great brute squatted below, watching the crag with the frightful patience of the reptile folk
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Something touched his foot that chilled like the touch of frost, and then the darkness beneath him was disturbed by a frightful thrashing and lashing, and a man cried out in agony
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His sobs grew shriller, changed to frightful, high-pitched laughter, and that in turn became an unbearable screaming
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Soft white hands that had caressed him, red lips that had been pressed to his, dainty white bosoms that had quivered to his hot fierce kisses, to be stripped of their delicate skin, white as ivory and pink as young petals—from Conan's lips burst a yell so frightful and inhuman in its mad fury that a listener would have stared in horror to know that it came from a human throat
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'Those same thieves—or rather those of them who still lived after their frightful quest—stole the Heart of Ahriman from its haunted cavern below the temple of Mitra, and all the skill of men and the spells of sorcerers nearly failed
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She and the frightful look of the saints in the glow of the nocturnal lamp were the two memories he retained of the house
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Imagine the laissez-faire attitude of a cafe in Nice contrasted with the frightful panic of a deadly chase through the crowded city streets of Cairo, or a gorgeous sunny seascape with a looming shadow just at the edge of your vision
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Great special commandos of a great super power were struggling to save their own lives just like frightful cats
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“Centuries ago, our two species were constantly at war, with frightful losses on both sides
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That fateful, frightful, terrifying moment, all those years ago, was forever etched on his brain
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Where I had used phrases such as stunning electro vibes and early fuzzy guitar riffs he had put in flippant comments in the margin like How frightful y modern! or Total y with it, man! I incorporated his improvements, and resolved to complete my part of the book over the next few
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Sit beside it, as it were, and regard the frightful wound to your self-esteem as the removal of deep illusions which existed before and which this chance has torn
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With a fearsome, deep throated sound it prepared itself for the frightful leap, and yet our self- assured officer bellowed in a long-drawn-out voice that sounded like the rumble of thunder: ‘Bullets!’ Miraculously, the beast became calm once again and squatted on its haunches, while our officer continued to smoke, utterly contented and totally in control of the strange situation in which he found himself
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For example, the period of religious impotence and the abandonment of Al’lah’s law, ‘Al-Torah’, led the Israelites themselves into a period of frightful descent into a dangerous spiritual whirl, which was a case similar to that of Pharaoh and his people before them, when magic had prevailed due to their retrogression (as we have previously noted)
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Shocked by such behaviour, not sure he oughtn't at once to call in the police, Soames went so far as to make a plunge forward and catch the mounting stranger by the arm--with the most frightful effect on Edward's blood
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It felt like he’d stepped out of his body, and now he was reliving those frightful minutes that had so altered his life, releasing all the jumbled emotions he’d kept stashed away for 15 years
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Till I have lit a candle, how can I remember that I do not believe in ghosts, and in nameless hideousnesses infinitely more frightful than ghosts? But what courage is needed to sit up in all the solid, pressing blackness, and stretch out one defenceless hand into it to feel about for the matches, appalled by the echoing noises the search produces, cold with fear that the hand may touch something unknown and terrible
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Oh--there it was, coming after me--it was feeling its way along the bedclothes--surely it was not real--it must be a nightmare--and that was why no sound came when I tried to shriek for Charlotte--but what a horrible nightmare--so very, very real--I could hear the hand sliding along the sheet to the corner where I was huddling--oh, why had I come to this frightful island? A gasp of helpless horror did get out, and instantly Charlotte's voice whispered, 'Be quiet
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As he went to the phone in the kitchen, Don’s mind rifled through the myriad of frightful possibilities suggested by a call at such an early hour
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This morning was a frightful thing
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Morrison, watching their dusky golden curve, "and the girl would have had scarlet hair and white-eyebrows and masses of freckles and been frightful
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It's a frightful bore losing one's umbrella--especially if it's an old friend
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Elevated by its hump the frightful Devata held a
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he had forgotten to ask his spirit about the frightful nature of the
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but never those frightful wide Z-turns linked only
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In her frightful flight in the morning light,
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Many thought they had seen the "Ice Demon", a frightful monster that attacked them, trying to push them into crevasses in the ice
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of this war meant, according to his opinion, the start of a frightful World War III with
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Edward White said, "It cannot be denied that the frightful
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Edward White said, "It cannot be denied that the frightful doctrines on the future of humanity
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I heard a shriek as someone else saw what I had and then the gloom of our situation dawned upon the whole column and it almost came to a frightful stop
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Edward White: "It cannot be denied that the frightful doctrines on the future of
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Edward White said, "It cannot be denied that the frightful doctrines on the future of
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And yet the only recorded references made by their merciful God to this frightful doom in the way of warning are discovered in three disputed texts of two Jewish prophets, living in a late age in comparison with the length of the world's past history; and these three texts are declared by the most competent critics to have not the least relevancy to the supposed impending destiny
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It was impossible for spiritual and thoughtful men to assent to the frightful positivist dogma which wrapped in thick darkness at once the destinies of the human race and the character of God
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No such frightful idea needs haunt the minds of parents
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And yet it may well be that, even if there be no bodily infliction, a greater and more frightful penalty in the spiritual results of a sinful life, shall precede and accompany the destruction of great offenders
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horse should not see being haltered as a frightful
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Is it not that we are propagating both abroad and at home a Christianity which is half paralyzed in its two chief forces of hope and fear through the perversions of an unbiblical theology? We fail in thoroughly presenting God's love to the nations,—a love strong enough to melt even Chinese arrogance, and to develop the belief of a real and personal God among Chinese Buddhists,—because we have encumbered, Christianity with a doctrine of hell, so unjust, so indiscriminate, so hardening in its frightful propositions, that men’s consciences refuse to receive it
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Men fear that if but a single window be opened into a world of mind, in at that aperture will glare the frightful blaze of the Divinity of Rome and Geneva, under whose terrors so many generations of our ancestors have groaned and died
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Once more, the two spectators started, as he turned upon her with a frightful suddenness
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It was famous, too, for the pillory, a wise old institution, that inflicted a punishment of which no one could foresee the extent; also, for the whipping-post, another dear old institution, very humanising and softening to behold in action; also, for extensive transactions in blood-money, another fragment of ancestral wisdom, systematically leading to the most frightful mercenary crimes that could be
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"And has left me," answered the nephew, "bound to a system that is frightful to me, responsible for it, but powerless in it; seeking to execute the last request of my dear mother's lips, and obey the last look of my dear mother's eyes, which implored me to have mercy and to redress; and tortured by seeking assistance and power in vain
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"It is frightful, messieurs
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Physical diseases, engendered in the vices and neglects of men, will seize on victims of all degrees; and the frightful moral disorder, born of unspeakable suffering, intolerable oppression, and heartless indifference, smote equally without distinction
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I chanced to be in a frightful den--I like my dens dirty--it was a dance, so called, and there was a _cancan_ such as I never saw in my day
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Night now closed in more completely, and many lights began to flit through the wood, just as those fiery exhalations from the earth, that look like shooting-stars to our eyes, flit through the heavens; a frightful noise, too, was heard, like that made by the solid wheels the ox-carts usually have, by the harsh, ceaseless creaking of which, they say, the bears and wolves are put to flight, if there happen to be any where they are passing
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Leading it were two hideous demons, also clad in buckram, with countenances so frightful that Sancho, having once seen them, shut his eyes so as not to see them again
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And the children began howling as if they already had frightful pains in their entrails
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The following day was frightful, and those that came after still more unbearable, because of her impatience to once again seize her happiness; an ardent lust, inflamed by the images of past experience, and that burst forth freely on the seventh day beneath Leon's caresses
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"Still her eyes closed not--one remembrance with frightful velocity followed another--All the incidents of her life were in arms, embodied to assail her, and
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The young ladies went, and Lady Middleton was happily preserved from the frightful solitude which had threatened her
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Our way lay across high mountains infested with frightful
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seemed to us so frightful that several of my companions thought it would be
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and hovered about it, uttering frightful cries when they discovered the mangled
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all the sailors could do we were driven with frightful rapidity towards the foot of a
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Cannot you inform him that it is frightful earnest? Nelly, if it be not too late, as soon as I learn how he feels, I'll choose between these two; either to starve at once---that would be no punishment unless he had a heart---or to recover, and leave the country
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How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity! From pity and charity! He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! Let us settle it at once: will you stay here, and am I to fight my way to Catherine over Linton and his footman? Or will you be my friend, as you have been hitherto, and do what I request? Decide! because there is no reason for my lingering another minute, if you persist in your stubborn ill-nature!"
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"May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion
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Have you noticed, Catherine, his frightful Yorkshire pronunciation?"
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He was not pretty then, Ellen: oh no! he looked frightful; for his thin face and large eyes were wrought into an expression of frantic, powerless fury
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frightful cousin would be a block not so readily to be removed, as suited
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There, very puzzled, Ned Land and Conseil watched the crewmen opening the hatches, while a frightful clamor and furious shouts resounded outside
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My blood would curdle as I watched some enormous antenna bar my path, or saw some frightful pincer snap shut in the shadow of some cavity! A thousand specks of light glittered in the midst of the gloom
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Among the savages a frightful stillness succeeded the explosion, which had just been heard bursting from the bowels of the rock
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When the fact was generally understood, the savages raised a frightful yell, which declared the extent of their disappointment