Jim raised his right hand as in benediction; Neville thought for one ghastly moment that he was going to cross himself.

I can tell you that was a pretty ghastly moment.

It was a ghastly moment, the one she would carry out of the battle and never forget.

She said it with a mature smile, not looking for sympathy, just using that ghastly moment as a point of reference for when her world changed.

For a ghastly moment he doubted her ability to get them out of this.

For a ghastly moment he thought he was going to crash down on the rocks.

He was almost relieved - for one ghastly moment, he'd thought that I was going to tell him I loved him.

But more had died here in these few ghastly moments than all those I'd ever sent to their untimely graves.

And the series makes those ghastly moments even worse.

For one ghastly moment he thought two of the soldiers might have been children, but by then he was far away, roaring back into the four-leafed clover.