Adjective : a dreadful storm. ,dreadful cooking; a dreadful hat. From Dictionary.com.
So well did Benita seem to understand Sanders that the Siren thinks his "dreadfulness" might have been oddly comforting at times. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Styled Siren] Reference
But oh, the dreadfulness of it and what it brought with it!. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia de Noël] Reference
Great Redoubt who had wisdom to meddle with no dreadfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land] Reference
The sound of the wind adds to the dreadfulness. (via Japundit). From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
We must stick it out until the bitter end despite the dreadfulness of it all. From Wordnik.com. [kateelliott: The Lame Phase] Reference
It was the dreadfulness of raw emotion that had made language a basic necessity. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories Vol 1]
Along with this well-being came again appreciation of the dreadfulness of her case. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
The vanity, vexation, dreadfulness, emptiness, of this concernment may be easily discovered. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
American accent, I hazarded my belief that this dreadfulness was personal rather than national. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
Wrath fled from her knitted brows; her eyes dropping to the girl, lost their dreadfulness; softened. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Bourdaloue goes about the business of impressing the thought of the dreadfulness of an eternity of woe. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
I tried to avoid reading any poems with a boy's name in the title, because of their sheer dreadfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
These witnesses He qualified to see the truth in its vast proportions and feel it in its divine dreadfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
And so I to know more in the heart, somewhat of the true dreadfulness and fear that had companioned Mine Own. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land] Reference
It was not that she minded the dreadfulness of sights and sounds -- she had been too much in hospitals for that. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
And alway I kept my body and my Will and my Spirit and my Love between the Maid and the dreadfulness of the House. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land] Reference
But now, in the cool of the evening when they had time to think, the dreadfulness of their condition became clear. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico]
And the stink to come up, so that we did be like to lose our breath with the dreadfulness of it, as you shall think. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land] Reference
It is a dreadful task that of answering examination papers — only to be exceeded in dreadfulness by the horrors of. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
Or maybe it's just that I never expected Hillary Clinton, for all her dreadfulness, to be courting the David Duke vote. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
It is not the spell of that which shall be that is upon the soul, but the irksomeness or the dreadfulness of that which is. From Wordnik.com. [The Threshold Grace] Reference
If they once broke, and went outside of the Barrier, no knowledge of mine could state the full extent of the dreadfulness of the danger. From Wordnik.com. [Carnacki, the Ghost Finder] Reference
Impulsive Faith thought of nothing but the dreadfulness of it. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Valley] Reference
Perhaps things of this kind will be manageable without dreadfulness. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
You think that you have quite conquered the dreadfulness of our origin. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
I was in every nerve by the dreadfulness of my situation, and as soon as. From Wordnik.com. [That Affair Next Door] Reference
It is dreadful, of course; but its dreadfulness melts into pure awfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country] Reference
The dreadfulness and unexpectedness of this catastrophe occupied me wholly. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793] Reference
She never opened her eyes. 16th -- Showed her the dreadfulness of wrath; freeness of. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne] Reference
Even the Flower Charity (bless it!) could not sweeten the dreadfulness of that yard. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Childhood] Reference
We grant all the dreadfulness, and joyfully admit the distance between such acts and. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
Her son spoke of the loss she would be to him; he spoke of the dreadfulness of death. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
There's a frightful constraint, a chilly, creepy dreadfulness steals about the party. From Wordnik.com. [This Freedom] Reference
His greatness sheltered her from their dreadfulness, their cleverness, their littleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Creators A Comedy] Reference
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