Sentence examples for frightful manner from inspiring English sources

As Defoe writes, it was a journey to remember from the very start: "The ship was no sooner out of the Humber than the wind began to blow and the sea to rise in a most frightful manner; and, as I had never been at sea before, I was most inexpressibly sick in body and terrified in mind".

Fright wigs, frightening women and frightful acting.

As she descended the steps, his servants threw more roses at her. "There before me was a frightful gnome with red-rimmed eyes and no eyelashes, no hair, greenish teeth, bad breath, the manners of a mountebank and the reputation, nevertheless, for being a ladies' man".

This selfish, deceitful, improbably charismatic man -- one woman called him "a frightful gnome with red-rimmed eyes and no eyelashes, no hair, greenish teeth, bad breath, the manners of a mountebank and the reputation, nevertheless, for being a ladies' man" -- convinced the actress that he and she were the sun and moon of Italian culture.

But we simply have to take everyone's word for it that he was irresistibly attractive (well, not quite everyone's: Hemingway thought he was a "jerk", and the courtesan Liane de Pougy called him "a frightful gnome with red-rimmed eyes and no eyelashes, no hair, greenish teeth, bad breath and the manners of a mountebank").

How frightful!

Those frightful Karinska tutus!

They sound frightful.

Frightful medical sights.

They are frightful places.

There followed a frightful beating.