"But why should she do so dreadful a deed?"

I found him safe and well, but horrified beyond expression by the dreadful deed he had witnessed.

"A dreadful deed," he said, "for which one day you must answer to God and man."

The dreadful deed was accomplished with quiet efficiency; Ironbeak and his birds were seasoned warriors.

All the others who had wives or children, did the like dreadful deed.

Wimsey has about 30 days to prove that someone else did the dreadful deed.

I'm sorry, my dear, but the history of our race is a tragic one, full of dreadful deeds and sad mistakes.

They lived isolated in mountain glens, emerging only when the time came for dreadful deeds.

Yes, it was a dreadful deed," her mother said on a sigh, "but young men will sow their wild oats.

It was Jack Ryan, fully determined to reach the madman before he could do the dreadful deed of destruction.