Now any one knows that an aspen can have a horrible eerie way of rustling at times; anyhow, Isak had never before heard such an utterly horrible rustling as this, and he shuddered.

It's conceivable that if we succeeded in exterminating all known diseases we might release an unknown one, supremely horrible, that would exterminate the race.

The memorandum follows: "The present Russian situation, which is unspeakably horrible and which seems beyond present hope of betterment, presents new problems to be solved at the peace table.

I shall never be able to let you know how disgustingly horrible it was sitting in that vile, cold wind!

My sensations were indescribably horrible.

" This conundrum was so exquisitely horrible, that his friends hoped he'd have judgment enough to hang himself, but such things die hard.

"There was something about salvage" But at the word salvage the sunburnt man exploded into language so extraordinarily horrible that I stopped aghast.

I don't seem to feel it when I'm actually with youI suppose I'm too happybut when I'm away from you it's just like some ghastly horrible sword hanging over our heads all the time.

There was something grandly horrible in the sight.

As the two effigies sat on the floor with their backs against the wall, stiff, staring, bloated and grotesquely horrible, not a soul would have suspected them.

To compel confessions, tortures inconceivably horrible were used, to which the alternative of death would have been a boon; and yet there were not wanting those among the Bâlois who would endure these torments rather than utter their own condemnation.

For her husband she appeared to mourn but littlethere was little time to mournand, for a while, until sights, sounds and smells became increasingly horrible, she appeared almost to enjoy her position of Queen of the Garrison, the acknowledged Ladye of the Officers and men of the Corps.

As I walked under the arcade of the Palais Royal, what was the horrible, the incredibly horrible sight that met my eyes?

Distance and time appear to have united their powers to make things appear fair in the eyes of Russell that inexpressibly horrible to those of "the monster Pitt.

"Isn't it odd," she said, "that we should all meet and just part again?" I thought it would have been much odder (and how infinitely horrible!)

Her writings had filled him with insufferably horrible boredom; they were more than merely wretched: they were wretched in every way, resembling the echoes of a tiny chapel where the solemn worshippers mumble their prayers, asking news of one another in low voices, while they repeat with a deeply mysterious air the common gossip of politics, weather forecasts and the state of the weather.

To Pupasse herself would be meted out that "peine forte et dure," that acme of humiliation and disgrace, so intensely horrible that many a little girl in that room solemnly averred and believed she would kill herself before submitting to it.

Right huge and hideous of body was the bear, and marvellously horrible to see.

By itself it would stand naked, meaningless, and merely horrible.

It is also, of course, morally horrible, and opposed to countless passages of the Scriptures themselves.

I had heard the country-people speak of it as a peculiarly horrible and treacherous gouffre, and its name, which means 'unwholesome hole,' corresponds to the local opinion of it.

It is hard to believe that such things could happen between earth and sky, and they who did them still live; yet the things, hypocritical on one side and sickeningly horrible on the other, were actually done.

And so Hilda, amid her enormous labours and fatigue, had lived with her secret, which, from being a perfumed delight, turned in two days to something subtly horrible, to something that by its horror prevented her from writing to Edwin aught but the briefest missives.

What did Christabel see in her, at times, so unutterably horrible?

Then his glance wandered to his uncle and saw a thing to wonder ata horrible thing in its own way.