A frightful thing has come upon me, and I know it must be now and here.

The waiting almost makes one wish the frightful thing would happen once and for all.

An army endangered by foreigners may do the most frightful things.

That was the shocking, the almost frightful thing about it.

The frightful thing is I've got to have him at the farm for the day tomorrow.

He started the refrain, and then the most frightful thing happened.

This is, first and last, the frightful thing we must remember.

Then he led her on across the room past the frightful thing, from which she turned away her eyes.

It is a frightful thing to see a strong man broken.

I don't need the frightful thing to keep my men in line.