She leaned past the midwife's shoulder to look at the child, and her eyes went wide with an ugly surprise.

Maybe this holiday season, the only ugly surprises will come gift-wrapped from family members.

We've checked the area and I'm pretty sure that there's nobody on the roofs and no ugly surprises.

If a company does default, increased disclosure on covenants would keep investors from ugly surprises.

"The contractor wanted to avoid ugly surprises," he said.

My mother died in 1991, the time of the original Mode novels, and that was an ugly surprise that caused me to pay closer attention.

If they didn't encounter any other ugly surprises.

They got an ugly surprise at that transmission of Jastrow's.

But what sort of ugly surprise waited within?

The face of the corpse was twisted in a look of ugly surprise.