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Causing or able to cause fear
Portending future disaster
Two parties were contending in the state, and their obstinacy could not fail to produce a most direful collision.
We should have to tell of the great and rapid increase of the Church; of its powerful influence among the nobles and the bourgeoisie; of its direful persecutions; of its St Bartholomew massacre with 70,000 victims; of its regrettable though perhaps inevitable entanglements in politics and war; and finally of its attaining not only tolerance but also honourable recognition and protection when Henry IV.
direful effect, and with no sprints descending there is but little likelihood of salmon coming up the river.