I thought about it, and at length nodded, keeping my expression terribly serious.

"It would be terribly serious if Suffolk should learn that the girl is coming back."

The whole question of Amour became a terribly serious one.

I so much hope this is something not terribly serious which (can) heal completely with good treatment and rest.

Those are terribly serious charges that you're making, and it's just as well you told this only to me.

We also know how terribly serious it is.

"You sounded terribly serious, Casey," she said as they went inside.

"We don't think this is anything terribly serious," said one senior official.

"We are in the midst of a terribly serious staffing crisis," he said.

She had been terribly serious and preoccupied the past few days.