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1 Twelve hours later, the danger was averted; but it was at a frightful cost .
2 For this, and this mainly, did Europe gird herself at frightful cost for war.
3 The frightful cost which you and yours must pay if you dare defend Virginia?
4 He published a succession of pages showing the frightful cost at which the aigrette was secured.
5 The Londoners gained part of High Wood at frightful cost and then were blown out of it.
6 Why were my eyes designed but to see, my breast to love, my Cyrène, at such frightful cost ?
7 It had been gained at a frightful cost , but no price was too high to pay for such a victory.
8 Better that the American Union had never been formed, than that it should have been obtained at such a frightful cost !
9 They are a peace-loving people and know the frightful costs of war.
10 "At a frightful cost , " Crowther said.
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