His shirt was stained, apparently from a wound in his breast, but most horrible of all was a circular, reeking spot on the crown of his head from which the scalp had been stripped.

Horrible was the stupefaction when those bodies were found there.

So horrible may be a so-called religion that men themselves devise, and that has not come from the true God.

Mary recalled Leddy's leer at her on the pass, with its intent of something more horrible than murder.

Then, further, in the past the aftermath of war was in many ways as horrible as war itself, whilst the period during war witnessed an enormous amount of privation and suffering among non-combatants almost as ghastly as that of the battlefield.

It may be only Lord Tancred's doingmen are more horrible than women.