The ruling idea in him was the fine dreadful idea which I had vainly combated at our last interview.

"What a dreadful idea," she said, walking back and forth, looking as if she might bolt out the door at any moment.

A dreadful idea struck me: we might be in Harmac!

Then a dreadful idea came over him, and he ran to the chamber where the needles had been kept, but it was quite empty.

I pushed these dreadful ideas from my head.

I know they're mostly dreadful ideas, but at least there's some variation.

But to put this sort of rubbish on the police is a dreadful idea.

Do you still think this was all a dreadful idea?

Just lucky for him it was a dreadful idea.

We must not allow any recourse to this dreadful idea of holding a referendum in order to put off these constitutional changes indefinitely.