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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Dreadful
 
  Dreadful as the parting hour.
            —Anne Brontë		  1
  Dreadful as the storm.
            —Thomas Campbell		  2
  As dreadful as the Manichean god.
            —William Cowper		  3
  Dreadful as a gathering storm.
            —John Hay		  4
  Dreadful as the God of war.
            —Homer		  5
  The King is dreadful as the grim lion in the valley.
            —Pentaur		  6
  Dreadful, as hermit’s dreams in haunted shades.
            —Alexander Pope		  7
  Dreadful as battle arrayed.
            —Francis Thompson		  8
 
 
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