"Indeed, count," said Madame Danglars, "I am ashamed to own it, but all your frightful stories have so upset me, that I must beg you to let me sit down;" and she fell into a chair.

"It is a frightful story, count," said Albert, terrified at the paleness of Haidee's countenance, "and I reproach myself now for having been so cruel and thoughtless in my request."

The baron has just related a frightful story to me.

It is a simple, beguiling, frightful story.

"It's a frightful story," she said, and added artfully: "But in one thing I have been fortunate, I have had good health."

The tally of Urquhart's remaining men told a frightful story.

Deterred by the frightful stories related of its inhabitants, ships never enter this bay, while their hostile relations with the tribes in the adjoining valleys prevent the Typees from visiting that section of the island where vessels occasionally lie.

Some of them told frightful stories.

They tell some frightful stories about it.

Cope was a great general, all Hal's friends said so, but the men around the fires told frightful stories of the fierce Highlanders and their bloody broadswords.