Meanings of terrible distinctness in English

Every pillar and pinnacle was seen with a lurid and terrible distinctness.

Now the thin coverlet betrayed with terrible distinctness her mutilated form.

He saw it all with terrible distinctness, The man was Akers, of course.

Again and yet again it sounded, with terrible distinctness.

His position was presented to him with terrible distinctness.

The figure of Vargas rises upon us through the mist of three centuries with terrible distinctness.

Slowly, but with terrible distinctness he recalled the events which preceded and brought about this tragedy.

Through the smoke which hung thickly around I saw the monster's head appearing with terrible distinctness.

Their shouts of triumph, and the shrieks of the Indians, reached our ears with terrible distinctness where we stood.

Every word, every look of tenderness which the dead woman had lavished, she recalls now with a terrible distinctness.

The closed eyelids had a shell-like transparency, and the candelabra on every side lighted up the gruesome object with terrible distinctness.

Gradually the events of the preceding night crept with silent blood-stained feet into his brain, and reconstructed themselves there with terrible distinctness.

Both watchers saw him with terrible distinctness, there among the sumacs and birches, with the beauty of which he made a shocking contrast.

There are times when to those most bewildered in mazes of error light breaks, clear and unmistakable, defining right and wrong with terrible distinctness.

The words of the information bureau came back to me with terrible distinctness: "Why, her light timbers will go to pieces on the first rock!"