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blood-curdling or bloodcurdling Adjective terrifying How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Restrain also the keen fury of my heart which provokes me to tread the ways of blood-curdling strife. Captain Hall was a dreadfully profane man and used to swear blood-curdling oaths. |
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