But as at this time the "Nautilus" was drawn into the vortex of the maelstrom, off the coast of Norway, the captain naturally believed that the fugitives, engulfed in that frightful whirlpool, found their death at the bottom of the abyss.
The night was frightful.
She had been regularly turned over by the inexplicable but frightful submarine action, which had been at the same time manifested by an enormous water-spout.
" Frightful cries were heard when they returned on board with the wounded, and two or three guns were fired with no results.
There were many violent storms and frightful tempests, which appeared to shake the rocks to their very foundations.
A savage in all the horrible acceptation of the word, and so much the more frightful that he seemed fallen to the lowest degree of brutishness!
They little knew that sixteen days afterwards a frightful crime would be committed in Washington, and that on Good Friday Abraham Lincoln would fall by the hand of a fanatic.
At eight o'clock Neb had not appeared, but there was no doubt that the frightful weather alone hindered his return, and that he must have taken refuge in some cave, to await the end of the storm or at least the return of day.
Frightful indeed was the situation of these unfortunate men.
"It must be admitted that his blood is a frightful mixture!
"This is frightful.
We must let them know at the station, or there'll be a most frightful accident.
What had happened could only be a dream, a frightful dream; and when he turned the key and opened the door, he would see her bending slightly over the table in the gracious attitude of the woman in Chardin's Benedicite, which always seemed to him so exquisite.
Oh, if you knew the frightful anguish in my heart.
A more considerable degree of wandering attended the third repetition; and, after completing the fourth, she immediately added, "Only think, my dear, of my having got that frightful great rent in my best Mechlin so charmingly mended, before I left Bath, that one can hardly see where it was.
The spring fashions are partly down; and the hats the most frightful you can imagine.
Tilney, how frightful!
I've a frightful lot to do—all those "up back" people will be here to supper.
"Come on, Tink," he cried, with a frightful sneer at the laws of nature; "we don't want any silly mothers;" and he flew away.
In that frightful moment I think his fierce heart broke.