Then Chesapeake became a series of horrible incidents, finally a battleground.

There had been a horrible incident recently which must have remained on his mind.

"But he must have experienced some horrible incident," the captain commented.

I get through every horrible incident with humor.

Liandra knew about the horrible incident because she'd been a friend with the stable hand.

This gives him a different interpretation of the horrible incident he has visualized.

"We're there to find people who survived this horrible incident."

So there was a really horrible incident on the river.

There had been a few horrible incidents, but only a few.

Still smiling, he turned and ran back into the building to report the horrible incident.