At least eight people in the house survived, and told of a long, terrifying night.

A number of the wounded Australians lay there all through the long terrifying night, as the Viet Cong moved around them.

Selena remembered her first impression of him, on the terrifying night they'd met, as fey and beautiful in an otherworldly sort of way.

In reality, the dim circle was the only comfort he had in the terrifying night, and he could not bring himself to relinquish it.

"That's why what happened that terrifying night at Marblehead occurred," she said hoarsely.

It was just that during that first terrifying night, I began to realise what it's really like to be helpless.

But those who lived through those three terrifying nights can find reassurance in his pledge that such errors will not be made again.

Collier thought of another time and another place, when he had been initiated one terrifying night in the use of the Colt automatic rifle.

Dealing with the 1918 flu epidemic that killed more than 20 million people worldwide, it could also be a terrifying night at the theater.

It was a long, cold, and terrifying night.