Especially as the pay at any rank was barely spending money, the hours terrible, and the working conditions worse?

He would not desert her in her terrible hour of need.

Comfort is what He brings us in that terrible hour.

A few terrible hours then passed in the worst perplexity and distress.

In the past five terrible hours, he had more than once come close to tears but had repressed them.

Too much thinking about what might have happened in that terrible hour was potentially dangerous, possibly even heretical.

I embraced her and we held each other like two frightened children reunited after long, terrible hours of separation.

They'd barely gotten over those terrible hours, and to this day they were still soulsick.

It seemed terrible in the night hours, but would be all right in the morning when he could see people and sort things out.

I'm told they've doubled the effectiveness of the spells that Barney's people worked out in those long ago terrible hours.