Sentence examples for dreadful to him from inspiring English sources

In another, during an argument with her mother about Sergius, Raina blurts, "I always feel a longing to do or say something dreadful to him".

Henry the Eighth, dying, is "a swollen, hideous spectacle, with a great hole in his leg, and so odious to every sense that it was dreadful to approach him".

Mr Nasheed came to power as a force for change: it would be dreadful to see him lead his wobbly new democracy of 350,000 citizens back to its darker days.

As Jessie awaits his arrival the next day, Carlos and Abby stay by her side, and the movie teases you with the notion that something dreadful happened to him.

It was dreadful to watch; worse to think of him in the Oval Office.

At a moment when he was perplexed by the failings he perceived in everyone around him, Williams wrote of himself: "Dreadful to hate everyone as I do sometimes.

They have several blind alley attempts to trace their father and Laureth becomes increasingly worried that something dreadful has happened to him.

That's dreadful to contemplate.

But his eyes were dreadful to behold.

Lefroy rose to become Chief Justice of Ireland, and the idea that Jane might have married him, and spent her days organizing soirées for the legal profession instead of sitting peacefully at home writing about Emma Woodhouse, is dreadful to contemplate.

A Russian Milosevic is too dreadful to contemplate.