When I told you those awful words, that, too, was to a purpose.

Masters tried to remain calm even as he said the awful words.

He could not bring himself to say that awful word, failed.

But then the awful words themselves were clear to him.

She shook her head, but the awful words of truth would not go away.

I saw her again on the day your mother spoke those awful words to Ruathain.

Hardly a day went by without someone outside there using those awful words in just that way.

He knew the answer to that already, and there was no need for her to utter the awful word.

"I think it will be - to use that awful 21st-century word - a destination."

Such awful words seemed to shake even his iron nerve.