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It was a dreadful day, but it is also a day that will remain, I believe, a symbol of the enduring bravery of the British people.

IT HAS been a dreadful week in Kashmir, the bloodiest yet in two decades of uprisings against Indian rule.

Such a speech made sense politically, too: it was shrewd to emphasise just how dreadful a mess he is inheriting from his predecessor.

The present law, as it now stood, had been instituted by the wisdom of their fathers, to check the alarming progress of a dreadful crime.

They began to talk of what a dreadful storm it had been the night before.

The sight of your dear sister, however, was really dreadful; and to heighten the matter, I found her alone.

After such a dreadful experience, you'd think I'd be ready to give her back.

But it was all in vain, and I had a feeling of the most dreadful, shameful failure.

"Dreadful deadly spasms" of cerebral palsy shot their way from his cranium to his spine and into his feet.

I did not realize then what dreadful events were soon to happen, and that this happy and peaceful year was to be the calm before the storm.

There was rising in him a dreadful uneasiness ; something very precious thathe wanted to hold seemed close to destruction.

It had been that dreadful wet summer, you know, and places that were safe in other years gave way suddenly without warning.

As a young person and a product of our bilingual education, my view is that Chinese is not a dreadful language to BE avoided at all costs.

But he tells it as if it were still a dreadful thing.

I felt that I had got to put an end to that dreadful noise.

Without it, a man will feel that his ill fate has taken charge of him and the world is utterly dark and dreadful.

I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage . . . to use the word "bad" would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful.

Dreadful as it was, she was conscious of a shelter in the presence of these thousand witnesses.

There had been a dreadful accident and every one in the train had been killed.

There was rising in him a dreadful uneasiness ; something very precious that he wanted to hold seemed close to destruction.

Tom's terribly boring. He's always talking about the war. He never stops talking about his army days. He's a dreadful bore!

It must have been two years afterwards, and I was almost fourteen, when one dreadful night my godmother and I sat at the fireside.

That was the most damning aspect of this latest low which was a fitting end to what has been a truly dreadful year for this proud club.

The Mole came and crouched beside him, and, looking out, saw the wood that had been so dreadful to him in quite a changed aspect.

Unhappy boy! If he had only known then the dreadful things that were to happen to him on account of his disobedience!

Well. But I hope we won't get lost. It would be so awful! " and the girl shuddered at the thought of the dreadful possibilities. "

one evening there was a dreadful storm : it thundered and lightened and the rain poured down in torrents--it was really quite frightening!

There is no witness so dreadful , no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man .

It has been a dreadful few days for the British media.

He felt a dreadful hollowness in it, a real emptiness that could never be filled except by Christine's heart.

As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.

Things in Atlanta were in a dreadful pass, she said, due to the vile doings of the Republicans.

There came to me that dreadful sense of illness, which we have no name for either in Scots or English.

This was to be the first of many dreadful events which were to poison my life.

I observed a year ago that the oil market often made fools out of forecasters, and then proved myself right with a dreadful prediction.

Tears of compassion shall flow from her eyes and will fill the island with her dreadful cries.

Who knows when another "accident" involving millions of men will happen, an "accident" that will be the dreadful day of our doom?

While their talk of it as dreadful was still in the air, she appeared to present it as inordinately soft.

Two or three of these dreadful eyes were much larger than the others, and had the appearance of solid gold.

We sometimes think of death as if it is a dreadful person whose job it is to collect souls.

The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

There's something in her eyes wakes such a dreadful fear in my heart, that drives me mad.

In his essay "The Proper Means of Regulating Sorrow, " * Dr. Johnson identifies the dreadful uniqueness of grief among the human passions.

Since roads are generally dreadful, advances in communications, with mobile banking and telephonic agro-info, have been a huge boon.

Suppose I were to be seized of a sudden in some dreadful way, and not able to ring the bell!

"King up, don't find out. " The bodyguard meticulously says. Wang Shang at the moment is really dreadful, not the Nu is from the Wei.

ended up being a bit of a mess, and the SEO it dreadful!

I feel as though it would kill me to remain long near that dreadful man.

Gradually there came a sort of vague beginning of consciousness, then a sense of weariness that was dreadful.

It would be a dreadful day for a first date, or for having that special talk about a grievance with the one you love or are dating.

The sea was no friendly element to unhappy Pericles, FOR long beFORe they reached Tyre another dreadful tempest arose.

Where one of the figures had been there was something dreadful. He blacked out.

When the boat meets the times change the dreadful very rough sea waves, is doomed to carry floats carries sinks, actually also involuntary.

The most dreadful part of my predicament was that logic put me in the wrong.

Anne herself would have found the mortifications of it more than she foresaw, and to Sir Walter's feelings they must have been dreadful.

FOR much of the 19th century, Bagamoyo was a dreadful place, at the heart of the east African slave trade.

'It made me feel dreadful. I kept thinking about how the poor little things died. The human part of the tale is awful.

but every time we started to come, a dreadful great lion came out of the woods and roared at us, and frightened us so that we ran away.

A knockout seemed certain, and a captain of police, appalled at the dreadful punishment, arose by the ringside to stop the fight.

Prom night can be a dreadful experience for socially awkward teens or for those who do not secure dates.

I'll bet that the second choice often isn't just a bit worse, but dreadful.

To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little son would be impoverishing him to the most dreadful degree.

Dreadful weather, do not you think ?

The mood of the returning crowd can be a good barometer for the state of the European Union. And this year it is dreadful.

burn them in the dead of night, probably, as if they were evidence of some dreadful crime.

Cushion Monster(CM): Oh, my, yes I remember them. Dreadful folk. Destroyed the castle, don't you know.

Swithin, fixing him with a dreadful stare, answered: "Don't talk to me about such things! "

Rat never been home all night nor Mole either, something dreadful must have happened, they said.

"That must have been a dreadful experience, " said Alex.

The weather. The British weather is, at first glance, dreadful, ghastly, horrendous, outrageous, horrible, shocking, woeful, rotten, bad.

The dreadful recollections of being caged by Tesla made him look about for a way to take his own life.

While she looked at him pleadingly , he drove on in a dreadful silence.

"Life is so dreadful, " she murmurs, but she does not feel it's dreadful at all.

In that area, AIDS is so dreadful a disease that the very mention of it strikes terror into the population.

"We've really left that poor woman in a dreadful situation, " said the angel.

The timing was dreadful, with Ireland, Greece and Portugal trying to fashion austere budgets for 2011.

Nine-tenths of the economic fallacies that are working such dreadful harm in the world today are the result of ignoring this lesson.

There has been a run of facts and figures from the world's leading economies in recent days that can only be described as dreadful.

Great efforts should be made to inform young people, especially the dreadful consequences of taking up the habit of smoking.

There was no loud rattle in his throat, no dreadful struggle.

Reznak wrung his hands. "N-nine, Magnificence. Foul work it was, and wicked. A dreadful night, dreadful. "

An Englishman and his wife, he wearing a dreadful Panama hat and she button boots.

Great efforts should be made to inform young people of especially the dreadful consequences of taking up the habit of smoking.

One dreadful night, he felt the snake wiggling under his pillow, and he jumped out of bed in a cold sweat.

That would be dreadful for the US. But it would be dreadful for China and the rest of the world, too.

Salary was dreadful but I thought it would be for the best.

For, bays he, look yonder lies a dreadful monster on the side of that hillock FAST asleep.

A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but , if properly handled, it may become a driving force.

THE costs of efforts to save the euro are justified by the claim that the alternative would be too dreadful to contemplate.

He took a dreadful chance, flying under the bridge that way.

Pilate delivered our Lord to the lictors to be scourged. The Roman scourge was a most dreadful instrument of torture.

The dreadful prospect of limited nuclear exchanges is inherent in a world no longer protected by the carapace of mutual assured destruction.

Great efforts should be made to inform young people the dreadful consequences of taking up the habit of smoking.

I gather that what he did to Draco at the end of the War was pretty dreadful, too.

I got a dreadful start, when I thought I heard the file still going; but it was only a sheep bell.

However Pharaoh would not hearken to Moses nor obey Yahweh . Therefore , by the hand of Moses, He brought ten dreadful plagues upon Egypt.

Her eye was caught by one of the classical lady's attendants who was depicted running away from the dreadful scene in alarm.

But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.

He turned a dreadful smile to me, and as if with the decision of despair, plucked away the sheet.

The only excuse for holding such a dreadful occasion is that it served a business function.

write off He wrote off three cars in a year because of his dreadful driving.

He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions.

To be constantly living with an ill-tempered person, must be dreadful.

When she's alone and humiliated and broken it would be dreadful if she had nowhere to go.

It was dreadful for him to find himself alone in such a place.

The meeting had been called mainly to discuss Zimbabwe's dreadful economy and the arrests and beating of opposition leaders.

The dusk halation is said that the colour photo is in this silently dreadful alleyway through, I stretch out the wing healing gradually.

There was such a dreadful story that had happened in the dormitory of girl.

There should be an awareness of the dreadful consequences of taking up the smoking habit.

Corporate governance is still dreadful and one leading analyst I talked to said it was getting worse as more money flows in.

But the prince was self-confident and fearless like a young lion. So he pushed on into the forest, until he came to the dreadful monster.

They would sit there in the empty nursery, recalling fondly every smallest detail of that dreadful evening.

Its national opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has dreadful weaknesses too, including the lack of a charismatic leader.

Everything is brought together into a disturbing foreshadow of dreadful secrets.

but, being of a hopeful nature, they began at once to invent plans to save the prince from the dreadful doom that awaited him.

Learning about money can feel a lot like swallowing harsh medicine: It's supposed to be good for you, but the taste is dreadful.

Yes, last week's results were dreadful, they say, but the coalition will not break up: going to the country now would be fatal.

Oh, I'm quite particular about book size and price, and I'd like to avoid that dreadful Gothic typeface your children's books usually have.

I can think of nothing but this dreadful accident, and the trouble is like to bring upon quite innocent persons.

The high death rate of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome caused the nation the specter of this dreadful disease.

And the wind played a dreadful cantata (cantata. . . ).

The climatic conditions were, of course, just as bad for the Russian army and it too suffered losses during that dreadful winter.

In the light of a man, an over-dependent woman is pitiful, an over-independent woman is dreadful, and it will be tiring to live with them.

But this beauty only formed a more dreadful contrast with his watery eyes, his loose, wrinkled skin, and his straight, black lips.

For instance, death is nothing dreadful, or else Socrates would have thought so.

I who knew nothing what that meant, was so surprised, that I thought the ship had broke, or some dreadful thing had happen'd.

horrible to see, hear, etc. ; very ugly or revolting ; dreadful.

'Surely there is no danger of anything so dreadful? ' said Oliver. 'Two hours ago, she was quite well. '

You want to get at least a fame of dreadful in four locations before you cut another single.

In the past few weeks these have been revealed in all their dreadful clarity by an esoteric debate about the tax break for ethanol.

If, tomorrow morning, the roommates find she is sleeping beside a boy's photo, that would be a piece of very dreadful thing indeed.

Stand any here that question God's judgment on a sinner? Behold ! Behold a dreadful witness of it!

Investors have had a dreadful time in the recent past. The immediate future looks pretty rotten, too.

When sleeping a thousand undead army on the mainland again, it would be dreadful and exciting things.

A sequence of dreadful event happened in the Paris opera house , has rumour to say theatre is haunted thereupon right away.

ROY HODGSON admits Liverpool's dreadful Premier League away form is leaving him with sleepless nights.

This mad excitement over, there returned, with ten-fold force, the dreadful consciousness of his crime.

You can wear the best suit in the world, slap on a dreadful pair of shoes and it's all completely worthless.

Depending on the my own experience, I think that this kind of embroilment itself is not dreadful.

Then , suddenly, whilst I rejoiced in this splendid vigour of a new -found self, from far away there came the dreadful muttering noise .

He was struck dumb by the dreadful news. It was long before he found his tongue.

Objective: Analyses of the dreadful consequences resulting from the unsuited combination of the traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

This was a dreadful time, rendered the more dreadful by the gloom of the weather and the country.

If Gary's was such a dreadful crime, he should have been prosecuted and sentenced here years ago.

A couple of seasons ago United had dreadful results against the other teams in the 'big four' yet went on and won the league.

Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.

Everyone knows the feeling of working with such a dreadful boss.

My hair was long enough to cover this dreadful secret. I relied heavily on lip-reading and pretending.

When the last Echo had faded, there was a dreadful stillness.

Strong coffee brewed into glass decanters would break down into a dreadful looking mess after 30 minutes.

Whatever one thinks of the justice of this arrangement, the consequences have become dreadful.

All the dreadful afflicting things that I saw there, joined to make the place seem an emblem of hell itself.

But to be 2-0 down without even having a kick of the ball was dreadful - game over.

It was clear that Akmal had absolutely no musical talent, no sense of timing and the song itself was dreadful.

a thrill of horror ran through my heart as I thought of the awful scenes that I had witnessed at that dreadful spot .

At each stop, there are voices warning that the golden age of the past has been wrecked, and suddenly Britain is a dreadful place.

It must have broken a couple of hours before, when I had been bumping along a particularly dreadful country lane.

Unemployment is still under 7%, but that partly reflects dreadful productivity, measured in output per person.

Mr Cameron shied away from calling for his friend's head too, but described the allegations as "truly dreadful" .

They flung themselves down upon the ground and wept, imploring for mercy in a way that was dreadful to behold.

LORD GORING. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

That's dreadful: it confuses what I think my life is worth with what my boss thinks my life is worth.

They couldn't imagine where he had been on such a dreadful night.

Bertha stretched out her arms to embrace the wonders of the living world, and she put away the dreadful thought that it must end so quickly.

Isabella terrified and repelled, afraid to enter the room, it would be so dreadful to watch Catherine go.

The dreadful embarrassment of my situation was the uppermost idea in my mind.

The walls were in a dreadful condition -- their yellow plaster was peeling off .

'It's so dreadful to be poor! ' sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.

The dreadful floods this year and last showed that untamed and unpredictable rivers can be both resource and threat.

But Malaysians have heard it all before, most recently in March 2008, after UMNO's dreadful showing in a parliamentary election.

There has been a dreadful earthquake in Iran.

It remains very difficult to work out exactly what equity bulls have to throw back against this dreadful combination of bad news.

First, smoking is harmful, and many dreadful substances are in tobacco smog. Those substances cause stimulus, cancer and poisonous effects.

Today we will be looking for revenge after that dreadful performance. We owe that to the fans that had to witness the last match.

It was a dreadful sight they swa, a wordless condemnation of their rule.

Ship diesel engine runs with a high malfunction rate for its complicate structure and the dreadful working condition.

But so far, markets' oddly calm reaction to dreadful news seems justified.

The morning of the day they went away you made a scene so dreadful, so distressing that I told you that we must part.

You were lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry, Clementine.

You can discount what Jack said: he is a dreadful liar.

That suicide terroristic crime is one kind of criminal acts adopted usually to reach a target or make dreadful effect.

From Pandora's box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all.

The twins, holding tremulously to each other, dared the few yards to the next shelter and spread the dreadful news.

My faith in Accor properties has been restored by this property after our dreadful stay at the Grand Mercure Darling Harbour, Sydney.

Developers were reluctant to cut prices as transactions slowed this year, but some are finally capitulating after dreadful sales in October.

"Wow, Dad, I love it! Thanks! " Now my horrific day tomorrow would be just that much less dreadful.

Provoke II Taunt. Increases your opponent's hatred of you. Each level of Dreadful Countenance increases the amount of hate added by 10%.

It was a dreadful sight they saw, a fearful condemnation of their rule in Hawaii.

Hello, everyone. You look dreadful, Ron. Is that why you put something in his cup? Is it a tonic?

But much-hyped international economic summits that aim high amidst dreadful conditions and fail are not necessarily disastrous.

What a dreadful Uefa Champion Clubs'Cup Final! It was far worse than the FA Cup Final. It was full of mistakes.

The last census, for example, revealed the dreadful scale of imbalances in the sex ratio in Punjab, Haryana and a few other states.

And if the rains fail before the end of this year, an unimaginably dreadful catastrophe could ensue .

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

Their Royal Highnesses' thoughts and prayers are with the families of those killed at this dreadful time.

Summer foam want to open a loan company, she still let vegetables DuShuiQuan shareholder, she also to do dreadful type village officials.

Now that he has faded so dreadfully, he's destined for a dreadful, awkward summer of anguish and second-guessing his play.

Consumers say they're not in despair because, despite the dreadful headlines, their own fortunes still feel pretty good.

Want, the flexible trousers side at the right moment stucks your waist and looks to have a tire turn, whether is quite dreadful?

The tide may indeed be turning against the supreme leader, his dreadful president and even the cracking carapace of clerical tyranny.

They establish logic unto death, exaltation, "dreadful" freedom, the glory of the tsars become human.

But if R2P is no Western plot, it may not be the perfect way to ward off dreadful acts of mass murder either.

The most pressing, its rotten infrastructure and the dreadful quality of its education, are, alas, not new.

Political leaders across Africa answered the challenge posed by this dreadful disease and the results are before us.

If President Obama and the Fed continue down their current path, we could see a repeat of those dreadful inflationary years.

I think there are many methods to help us out off the dreadful situation.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ~George Santayana.

Time magazine described "Friday" as a "train wreck" and the video as "hilariously dreadful. "

The dreadful earthquake destroyed the city that had grown up when men discovered gold in the deserts of California.

Defeat is not dreadful and pain is of no pity. Cowardice is the most pathetic.

As these puzzling and dreadful occurrences continue, the team tirelessly explores strange and creepy links to dreams.

The first thing I saw ---- but I dare not describe the dreadful sight.

'Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

She entered into the soul of the servant of God, and stood against dreadful kings in wonders and signs.

Packed in a dreadful mess All the things I had packed so carefully were soon in a dreadful mess.

After all the dreadful stories I've read about the tactics these companies impose on their customers, I've come to expect the worst of them.

The riot on August 8th-9th was not the first and won't be the last in California's dreadful prison system.

Parts of Somalia exceed these dreadful thresholds.

I'm paying the penalty FOR drinking too much last night; I've got a dreadful headache!

If she could not have been angry with Frank Churchill too, it would have been dreadful.

Luckily poor dear Roger had been spared this dreadful anxiety.

The dreadful damage done to the victims of the abuse was not appreciated, or was ignored.

The 1998 financial collapse derailed Maria Strizhevskaya's middle-class dream in a few dreadful days.

The mind creates harsh realities, it conjures up a fearful future and dreadful past.

Investors have had a dreadful time in the recent past.

But the Detroit-born Hughesbrothers have the bona fides to put dreadful war zones on the screen.

These dreadful people bring down the tone of the neighbourhood.

The dreadful Army of Darkness is leaving its stronghold to embark on a bloody campaign with the ultimate goal to conquer the world.

I caught a dreadful cold, but _that_ I did not regard.

While Kobe played on dreadful Laker teams, Shaq flourished, validating himself after his acrimonious split with L. A.

"I did many dreadful things that I now regret, " he said in 2007.

It is a dreadful one. Though it lists several areas where inspectors have outstanding questions, it allows Iran to drip-feed information.

In the morning the mad excitement was over, and the dreadful memory of his crime returned-more terrifying than ever.

Dreadful. There, the door is open now.

That would be dreadful, I absolutely revere him.

I shall kill myself in order to assert my insubordination, my new and dreadful liberty.

I haven't time to see the film-----besides, it's had dreadful reviews.

His face pale as death, and his lips trembling, he stammered out the dreadful news.

His face pale as ashes, and his lips trembling, he stammered out the dreadful news.

Dreadful stories they were: about hanging, and murder, and storms at sea, and wild deeds.

Then there are other stories-stories that you have been seen creeping at dawn out of dreadful houses.

Despite their dreadful demeanour and often horrid stench, Black Marrows are devoted mates and parents.

Eritrea split peacefully from Ethiopia in 1993, but has since been involved in dreadful wars and subject to an undemocratic system.

"We think it's a dreadful deal, " he said.

Her voice broke as she told us the dreadful news.

Like the color of the bean paste, Savior inside has grown black from the dreadful 3. 3.

Unspeakable horrors ensue in a deathly silence, a dreadful omen for what is to come.

The dreadful secret of the murder was a chronic misery.

He was deeply moved by the dreadful suffering of the wounded from both sides who were left largely uncared for.