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• It plastered the priest's long, already lank hair to his pitch-stained temples and made his black cloak hang limply around him, and made me feel more miserable than ever It always seems like a terrible waste to me," someone nearby remarked A waste of time, certainly," I muttered. —  EQMM, Sep - Oct 2006
• We always move to the leg side of the field when Captain Turner comes in Illustration: Mr. Brown. "Yes, this civil war business in Ireland is terrible--terrible--but, good heavens, Maria, why isn't there any onion sauce AT THE PLAY The Dangerous Age Illustration: Distracted Mother (at the top of her voice, outside sick son's room). —  Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914
• And yet the memory of his mad embrace and the blind violence of his kisses had become each day more vivid and terrible--terrible because of their fascination. —  The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln
• Please try to help me make a real woman out of her and not some sort of a terrible--terrible suffragette Sallie is the most perfectly lovely woman I almost ever saw. —  The Tinder-Box
• The story you told me of the death of Lieutenant Jenks was terrible--terrible; it brings the war home in all its ghastly reality; but really, you know, it was his fault and not yours, and still less the fault of the Church of England, that he did not want you when he came to die. —  Simon Called Peter

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