How To Use frightfulness In A Sentence
- 'Aweel,' said the Minister, breaking the silence, 'I micht -- be offerin' hospitality to Macmanus, the banker; 'twould be the ceevil thing to do, but if he comes he's my guest, ye ken -- I maunna hae ony "frightfulness"; an 'the cuddy wull be locked up.' Border Ghost Stories
- In the Imperial proclamation the fact that certain ‘frightful’ things have been done is admitted, and justified on the ground of their frightfulness.
- They saw at once its beauty and its frightfulness.
- Admiralty, and was able to state that, after two years of "frightfulness," the British mercantile marine was only a small fraction below its tonnage at the commencement. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917
- These doctrines of "frightfulness" are laid down by two of the foremost German writers on the Art of War. "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders
- It has torn up sacred promises, which its Chancellor called "scraps of paper"; it has broken its word; it has ordered "acts of frightfulness" in the lands which it has conquered and on the high seas, with the idea of brutally forcing its will upon enemies and neutral countries alike. The World War and What was Behind It Or, the Story of the Map of Europe
- The fact that they are increasingly referred to as ‘events’ underlines their frightfulness.
- Nor can it outweigh the sporadic frightfulness of pain and despair that occurs every second of every day.
- We observe that various German apologists, official and semi-official, admit that their country had been false to its pledged word, and dwell almost with pride on the "frightfulness" of the examples by which it has sought to spread terror in Belgium, but they excuse all these proceedings by a strange and novel plea. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
- Then they sent St. Edmund a message to say that he must give up half his kingdom and pay heavy taxes, or they would do the most terrible "frightfulness" throughout the land. Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light
