Now the bird looks like a cartoon character frozen in flight by a frightful sight: the plaza is a heap of wood, plaster and broken glass.

He was no less astonished than his wife when the frightful sight met his eyes.

At one time they saw in the distance a frightful sight, a wild and hellish mob destroying a village built around a castle.

'I must look a frightful sight,' she said.

A starving child is a frightful sight,' he said to me, 'a starving vampire even worse.

A frightful sight.

His love of leopard, he says, dates from a childhood stroll he took with his great uncle and grandfather that was interrupted by the frightful sight of a leopard lurking in a tree.

Look what a frightful sight your flat used to be.

He lay on a straw pallet, a frightful sight in the gloom.

The informal chronicles of several of the oldest families in the region contain stories of souls lost and frightful sights seen near Spirit Hill.