A knock-out seemed certain, and a captain of police, appalled at the dreadful punishment, arose by the ringside to stop the fight.

Again the first eighteen tribes chosen by lot all voted the same way, to visit dreadful punishment upon Caepio.

Let the dreadful punishment of this day never be out of my mind.

But all of them knew the dreadful punishment the NCO was talking about.

He feels that his dreadful punishment is just.

Her waiting is unfair - she feels that she has done nothing to deserve such a dreadful punishment.

For such a person to be exiled to the country was a dreadful punishment.

They murmured with awe for this was the most dreadful punishment that could be devised.

They cannot continue to use Sharia law and these dreadful, horrendous punishments.

If you knew the dreadful punishments our Queen inflicts upon us, you would not wonder we are so unhappy.