Every moment we staid in the grove was a holy terror to me; it seemed as if the whole Rebel artillery had discovered that it was headquarters, and were concentrating their shells into it.
He may be a good fellow ashore and will eat and drink with you at the hotel bars, like any ordinary bit of humanity; but dear me, aboard his ship he is a holy terror.
This quotation expresses in the familiar lines my experience more satisfactorily than I could attempt in a column a description of this one night of holy terror.
He's a rascal through and through, a mean dirty spalpeen, a holy terror!
But Jack was a holy terror, he was that bad, but he went to school in the spring.
Bridget said he was a "holy terror," but she thought holiness was goodness and didn't see the connection.
I pity the privateers of the Holy Terror to the Moors, by the Grace of God, if the voyages of this poor old polacre have no better results!
The captain of the Holy Terror to the Moors vainly tried to catch Stephanette's eye, but she seemed as anxious to avoid his glance.
No, Erskine, this ship of yours is a holy terror, but she's a daylight fighter.
The fact is, you seem to have established such a holy terror in these waters that I don't think he would trust his Imperial person between here and Germany.
She's a holy terror in the water, but the other fellow's got all the call on land.
Re-erecting himself he appended orally to the simple inscription the shockingly forthright epitaph, "She was a holy terror!
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