dreadfullest

I hope, therefore, as thou wert not cut off in the midst of thy sins by the sword of injured friendship, which more than once thou hadst braved, [the dreadfullest of all deaths, next to suicide, because it gives no opportunity for repentance] that this is a merciful earnest that thy penitence is accepted; and that thy long illness, and dreadful agonies in the last stages of it, were thy only punishment.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

But think, my dear, what a dreadful turn all had upon me, when, through several streets and ways I knew nothing of, the coach slackening its pace, came within sight of the dreadful house of the dreadfullest woman in the world; as she proved to me.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

She didn't say nothin 'furder, but I see she thought that the losin' on 't would be the dreadfullest misfortin that could happen to her.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

For Phene (but one step upon the way) would have died for her own self's sake only, because till now she had never known it, but in that strangest, dreadfullest, that least, most, sacred of offerings-up, had "lived for others" -- the others of the smile which girls like her are used to bear,

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

I have got myself into the dreadfullest mess, and I don't know how to get out.

Her father`s daughter 1921

I never saw him all the while give so much as one pleasant look, till he perceived he had wounded Apollyon with his two-edged Sword; then indeed he did smile, and look upward; but ’twas the dreadfullest sight that ever I saw.

The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The First Part. Paras. 300-399 1909

ON the very next Friday after this "dreadfullest fight that ever was seen," as Bunyan says in Pilgrim's Progress, there were great doings in the little schoolhouse on the hill.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

I never saw him all the while give so much as one pleasant look, till he perceived he had wounded _Apollyon_ with his two - edged Sword; then indeed he did smile, and look upward; but 'twas the dreadfullest sight that ever I saw.

The Junior Classics — Volume 5 William Patten 1902

I have got myself into the dreadfullest mess, and I don't know how to get out.

Her Father's Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

I never saw him all the while give so much as one pleasant look, till he perceived he had wounded _Apollyon_ with his two-edged Sword; then indeed he did smile, and look upward; but 'twas the dreadfullest sight that ever I saw.

The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites Eva March Tappan 1892