Sentence examples for dreadful quiet from inspiring English sources

That pool became our winter refuge, our balmy escape from the dreadful quiet of home.

In earlier musings, he had written of "the dreadful but quiet war of organic beings going on in the peaceful woods".

When she told a sister on the ward what had happened, she claims she was told Savile would not do such a dreadful thing and to be quiet because he raised a lot of money for the hospital.

They still felt dreadful.

And yet his quiet and exacting humaneness infuses even the most dreadful moments with an intimation of grace.

The girl screamed hysterically, and a senior nurse arrived but told her to be quiet, saying Savile would not do such a dreadful thing and he raised a great deal of money for the hospital.

First, infuriating noise but plenty of light, and then in my next digs, mostly quiet but light only when I didn't want it in the summer, in a dreadful, tiny place I put up with for 17 years.

Dreadful effort.

"Perfectly dreadful.

How dreadful".

Just dreadful!