Adjective : A frightful howl woke us. ,The storm did frightful damage. ,We had a frightful time. ,That actor is very talented but a frightful ham. From Dictionary.com.
Once again German frightfulness had failed -- and failed badly -- to attain its desired end. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
Evidences of the enemy's brief stay and the effects of their 'frightfulness' were not lacking. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Top With the Third Australian Division] Reference
These doctrines of "frightfulness" are laid down by two of the foremost German writers on the Art of War. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
And then the utter failure of all this "frightfulness"!. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland Since Parnell] Reference
The tide of "frightfulness" rolls strong on land as on sea. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Punch's History of the Great War] Reference
That is how "frightfulness" came into the literature of the war. From Wordnik.com. [Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front] Reference
In their methods of "frightfulness" they had overreached themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
In keeping with the dastardly methods of "frightfulness" in Europe, the. From Wordnik.com. [Private Peat] Reference
Was it the carrying out of the cold-blooded policy of "frightfulness" as. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting For Peace] Reference
It was a campaign of "frightfulness" which made the seas unsafe for all the world. From Wordnik.com. [An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls] Reference
It may be thought that the impression in England of German "frightfulness," and in Germany of. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene] Reference
The crowd was two thirds out before any one realized just what kind of frightfulness was going on. From Wordnik.com. [Ma Pettengill] Reference
A Vile feature of German "frightfulness" is this: that she mixes poison with her prisoners 'rations. From Wordnik.com. [Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers] Reference
German "frightfulness," at, 248; attempts to relieve 1st Corps at, 265; strong French reinforcements at, 270. From Wordnik.com. [1914] Reference
English people -- if we use these things, if we accept the Prussian gospel of "frightfulness" then spiritually we have lost the war. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
Suffragists by force, to give them a taste of that "frightfulness" which became afterwards so familiar a weapon in the Prussian armoury. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference
We know the horrors of that mode of German "frightfulness," and some of us have seen its effects in the slowly dying victims in hospitals. From Wordnik.com. [Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers] Reference
"frightfulness" was to reduce all these noble buildings to a heap of ruins. From Wordnik.com. [1914] Reference
'frightfulness' the German swine inflicted upon us and our beloved country?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia] Reference
"The last and gigantic effort of German 'frightfulness' has come and passed. From Wordnik.com. [Kingdom of the Blind] Reference
"frightfulness" by many others, it will be enough to say that Landrécies was reached in the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference
"frightfulness" does not pay; only when they see the uselessness of unchaining horror and of beginning another war. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting France] Reference
The Turks have started a new form of frightfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
He staged his piracies to a theatrical frightfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
After the policy of frightfulness put into effect by the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico] Reference
German frightfulness formed a part of the plan of campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting France] Reference
Other attempts at "frightful frightfulness" on the part of these. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914] Reference
Now I see that this -- this frightfulness of yours is premeditated. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Belgian civil population with unrelenting severity and frightfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Lafayette] Reference
Some artist under the frightfulness dogma must have designed it for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
We interpret every act of frightfulness as evidence of desperate conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Top With the Third Australian Division] Reference
It's part of their campaign to spread frightfulness, to terrorize the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Apartment Next Door] Reference
The thirst and the vermin, and the cold and wet -- and the noise -- and the frightfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
At the end of a few minutes only the frightfulness of the thing could no longer be endured. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
Suppose that they have not only a reasonable fear but a reasonable hatred of "frightfulness.". From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Not every one in Germany is obsessed with a conviction of the efficacy of “frightfulness.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
A case of measles developed on board, suspected to be German, -- another case of German "frightfulness.". From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
Communication was difficult, but the news of these events of frightfulness percolated through to Ottawa and the order went out in. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
Then ensued an amusing but fiery argument about the neutrality of Belgium, the use of native troops, and frightfulness in general. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
That Achi Baba excavation makes one suspicious that the German officers with the Turks are to be up to some form of frightfulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
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