It was some sort of horrible trick.
Nature herself was playing her a horrible, cruel trick.
We staggered to our feet in time to see Falcon play its most horrible trick.
She was afraid to turn around, afraid it was some horrible trick.
Once again I had the feeling that what my father had said to me in the garden could all be some horrible trick.
What was left of his mind was playing horrible tricks on him.
"It's another one of my brother's horrible tricks!"
This was an old trick of the Captain's, horrible in appearance but wonderfully effective.
It's a horrible trick, because it usually means that the snake dies in three or four weeks' time.
You played a horrible trick on us yesterday!