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...Silcox seems neither to have seen nor heard, at that instant roared out of the storm, screamed its warning and struck. A young bo named Witter, who was riding an icy tank car near the engine, jumped out in the snow to see what had happened. "It was the awfullest thing I ever saw," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Awfullest Thing | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

POSSIBLY THE AWFULLEST YET is "SWEETHEART LOVE" and MY ANGEL" as conceived and expressed by the Okeh Melodians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

...awfullest thing that happened was when the girls got together and held an indignation meeting, so to speak. At first I was going to own right up and say it was I, but they seemed so fierce in their wrath that I was almost frightened to death. I never saw such mad girls in all my life as the Miscellany editors were. They wanted to lock the doors and stay a day, a week, a month, if necessary, until the guilty wretch should confess the crime; and they would have stayed, too, if some one hadn't come and said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOR MISS NOUGAT! | 4/22/1882 | See Source »

...Desist, I pray thee! If thou lov'st me, cease," cried the Lamprey, as he leaped terror-stricken from his chair. "Me frozen marrow creeps backwards in me veins! Oh! awfullest agony of horror, now I know thee!" and, leaving him there crouched in delirious frenzy behind a Tabular View, the Ibex gracefully poised his wings and circled towards Carl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAMPREY AND THE IBEX. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »

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