dreadful

• And to get no valentine was a dreadful--dreadful thing. —  Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
• Another thing seems most dreadful, that is, the violent prejudice that seems to be against every man in England that is confessed to be a Roman Catholic. —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5
• Here they get every thing from Bologna except some lighter articles from Forli or Faenza If Scott is returned, pray remember me to him, and plead laziness the whole and sole cause of my not replying:--dreadful is the exertion of letter-writing. —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• "This is dreadful--dreadful Mend it, then!" —  Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent
• "It's dreadful--dreadful!--to sit by and watch him lyin' there, with his mind workin' and no power to speak. —  Hocken and Hunken

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