penny dreadful

He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.

The conflict in Tom's puzzled heart sharpened that evening into dreadful edges that cut him mercilessly whichever way he turned.

In 1603 it was ordered that one quart of best ale, or two of small, should be sold for one penny.

He could not bear to open his dreadful situation to his Uncle David, nor to kill himself, nor to defy the vengeance of Longcluse.

At other times they have a dreadful look of being fibs invented for the purpose of covering a fault.

Nevertheless, this world of mankind to-day seems to me to be a very sinister and dreadful world.