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Meanings of awful suddenness in English

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Usage of awful suddenness in English
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But her strength failed her even for this-failedher with awful suddenness.
Basil
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The prospect of death had now come upon him with awful suddenness.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
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With awful suddenness, the barbarians cleaved through and Thessalian resistance was sundered.
Roma Victrix
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And then Joe had been smitten with such suddenness, such awful suddenness!
The Emigrant Trail
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The awful suddenness with which the thing had appeared in our path throttled conversation.
The White Waterfall
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Grandon Park and Westbrook are shocked by the awful suddenness.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
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Before ever she came there, with awful suddenness and inconceivable fury, the tempest burst.
The Ghost Kings
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With awful suddenness, he disappeared beneath the roiling grey waves.
Imperatrix
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Then the awful suddenness, which had in the past marked her sorrows, burst in again.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
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He died very suddenly-withan awful suddenness-anddied intestate.
Birds of Prey
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The awful suddenness of the blow stunned him.
The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week
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The intolerable pity of the whole thing, its awful suddenness swept every other thought out of his mind.
A Lost Leader
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Her opponent's parries became frenzied with awful suddenness as she back-stepped, swords moving frantically to deflect the onslaught.
Gladiatrix
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Then over the laughter and voices, the band and the singing, with an awful suddenness there came a crash of thunder.
The Christian: A Story
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The velocity of the mud torrent may perhaps be overestimated, but in its awful suddenness this catastrophe was evidently one with few equals.
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
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It is a solemn thought that man may with such awful suddenness, and so unexpectedly, be summoned into the presence of his Maker.
Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
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