Because of our age difference, and all the dreadful stories about older men and kids, I kept our initial contacts outside.

It told the rest of the dreadful story.

I hear dreadful stories about you and the twins up the river.

You hear all these dreadful stories of children being dragged into cars and driven off.

The papers are full of a dreadful story about you and him.

Then very clearly and quietly he set out a dreadful story, giving dates and circumstances.

It was, indeed, a dreadful story to which he listened.

Indeed I can, and a dreadful story it is.

This is a dreadful story, and Williams tells it honestly.

"Your uncle gets more frivolous every year, Dinny; he tells me the most dreadful stories."