Immediately an enormous and frightful genie rose out of the earth, saying: "What wouldst thou with me?
Be she fair or frightful, clever or stupid, good or bad, I must marry her, and am left no choice in the matter.
In spite of all the sailors could do we were driven with frightful rapidity towards the foot of a mountain, which rose sheer out of the sea, and our vessel was dashed to pieces upon the rocks at its base, not, however, until we had managed to scramble on shore, carrying with us the most precious of our possessions.
This we did, and the sails were hoisted, but before we had made any way the rocs reached their despoiled nest and hovered about it, uttering frightful cries when they discovered the mangled remains of their young one.
Our condition seemed to us so frightful that several of my companions thought it would be better to leap from the cliffs and perish in the waves at once, rather than await so miserable an end; but I had a plan of escape which I now unfolded to them, and which they at once agreed to attempt.
Our way lay across high mountains infested with frightful serpents, but we had the good luck to escape them and came at last to the seashore.
" As he uttered these words he gave a frightful yell.
But they had scarcely gone a very little distance, when the whole pond rose with a frightful roar, and streamed out over the open country.
But she knew she had dreamt something frightful about the young Englishman, yet months had passed since she had seen him or even thought of him.
This channel sometimes overflowed, and made the path so slippery that any one passing that way might easily fall in, and be carried towards the mill wheel with frightful rapidity.
Much, far too much, has the nurse told her; she knows the Edda, the old great-grandmother' s frightful tales, where horrors sweep the air with bloody wings.
Presently they heard the frightful scream again, and Christina said, "We shall get into trouble about that pig.
So they clambered, and crept on, and a frightful steep place it was; but the chimney-sweep helped her and supported her, till they got higher and higher.
One of these is so wonderfully beautiful, that no one in the world can imagine anything at all like it; but the other is just as ugly and frightful, so that it would be impossible to describe it.
"This is really frightful; I cannot even recognize East Street.
" Then he led him out into the princess's pleasure gardens, and there he saw a frightful sight.
