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1  That is always a dreadful moment.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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2  Something dreadful about marriage.
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3  He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth.
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4  Yes, that would serve to wrap the dreadful thing in.
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5  Of course, the scenery was dreadful and the Orlando absurd.
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6  Anything would be better than this dreadful state of doubt.
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7  It is quite dreadful, but it only lasts for about five minutes.
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8  Every month as it wanes brings you nearer to something dreadful.
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9  It is dreadful, from one point of view, but it was not your fault.
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10  And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing.
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11  Poor dreadful Mr. Isaacs will be shouting 'genius' to his loafers at the bar.'
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12  She had swallowed something by mistake, some dreadful thing they use at theatres.
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13  I passed a dreadful evening, half afraid that one tragedy might be followed by another.
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14  "My son, don't say such dreadful things," murmured Mrs. Vane, taking up a tawdry theatrical dress, with a sigh, and beginning to patch it.
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15  The quivering ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
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16  There was a dreadful orchestra, presided over by a young Hebrew who sat at a cracked piano, that nearly drove me away, but at last the drop-scene was drawn up and the play began.
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17  Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse.
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