frightful

• It looked black, frightful, the tongue protruding, the eyes bloodshot. —  The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories
• The din of their stamping is frightful, the swine! —  The Black Cross
• We've seen some pretty middling horrible things already, and if these two men of ours call the frightful things we have seen normal, and are planning on deliberately hunting up things that even they will consider monstrous, you and I most certainly shall stay at home Yeah? —  Skylark Three
• Then when I recalled the frightful blaze and noise of that night, I began to realise what my rescue must have meant to any one. —  Tom, Dick and Harry
• When morning dawned after a year, a month, a week, and a day, Costan mounted his horse, took leave of his youngest brother, and saying to him, "Come, if I am lost too," rode off as Florea had done The dragon at the bridge was now still more terrible, his heads were more frightful--and the hero fled still faster. —  Roumanian Fairy Tales

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