terrific

• These sudden changes are terrific, and are often attended with most serious consequences in The Desert. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• The fire was terrific--so terrific that several of the French regiments refused to advance. —  The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War
• The roar of the artillery was terrific, and as the winds rolled away the huge columns of smoke, we saw that the city was on fire, the flames leaping to the skies. —  Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865
• So terrific were the concussions that the strong building rocked as in an earthquake, while every pane of glass was broken. —  The Scarlet Plague
• They came on with a din that was terrific, the savages from the eastern hemisphere howling like the beasts within their native forests, those from the western uttering at intervals their sterner, more appalling cry Within the great room Sir Charles, languidly graceful as ever, stood beside the small square opening in the door that led down into the garden, and fired again and again into the mob without. —  Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia

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