For it seems to me, that in this type of story, the author is teaching the reader a terrible lesson, is saying 'Look!

But to boys and girls he pointed a terrible lesson of the value of one penny.

There is the potential, they realize, for a terrible lesson in getting what you wish for.

They say 'We have been taught a terrible lesson for our folly.

Now I fear the others must learn something from this terrible lesson.

But now you must learn the one, terrible lesson of monarchy.

It appears that young women are still learning the same terrible lessons of fear and submission 30 years later.

"It was a terrible lesson to learn about playing with nuclear weapons."

Finally, and this is my third point, the tragedy in Lebanon has been a terrible lesson.

Early in the war bomber pilots were taught terrible lessons about their vulnerability.