Meanings of terrible city in English

Calvin, this is a terrible city in which we live!

Yet the terrible city in M is built out of shadow and suggestions of shadow.

How I ever got the ladies out of that terrible city I scarcely know to this day.

The terrible city was full of them.

I remember when Nyarlathotep came to my city-the great, the old, the terrible city of unnumbered crimes.

Getting to know this wise man was perhaps the only good experience I had in that terrible city.

She thought of the great and terrible city into which she was to launch herself late at night.

It's a terrible city, Mr. Gentle.

Am I to send thee forth to thy death in this terrible city, stricken by the hand of God?

We were but now preparing to scale the heights once more and cross the desolate valley to the terrible city.

What if my little lady and her mother were by this time in this terrible city and liable to the same fate?

Ignorance, dirt, and sickness do not attract me... and now here among the hills the terrible city seems like a fading nightmare.

Once asleep, fond recollection was banished; childhood memories became a thing of the past, and he was back, bloody-footed, in that terrible city.

Folks can get away with all sorts of meannesses and sins in these terrible cities, but they can't here.

"It is a terrible city for a man without an anchor!"

"It's such a terrible city for a girl alone."