I know cancer is a monstrous thing that could do me in if it got rolling again.

If such a monstrous thing as this had happened for no good reason at all, what sense did anything make?

I wasn't going to say these monstrous things about death and chaos to her.

And what was the monstrous thing that had come through it?

This seemed a monstrous thing to have to put to a man of his own age and breeding.

If they must travel under this monstrous thing, at least it need not be in darkness.

It was such a monstrous thing to think of her there.

It stood on a kind of pedestal, behind and above the monstrous thing.

What chance would I have against a thing so monstrous?

It seemed against the laws of nature that such monstrous things could float.