The proposition was so astounding that it might well have appalled the stoutest heart.

The rapidity with which the best galleys were sunk or disabled appalled the bravest; and at last the Turks shrank from close combat on an element where they saw that valor without experience was of no avail.

There are facts which may appal the bravestbut

The rest is repetition, ending in the astounding verdict: "The seed she thus sowed has come to many growths that would have appalled Charlotte Brontë.

Such audacity appalled the Indian children and fairly took the breath away from the older Indians.

The Senator from New Hampshire, who is so conspicuous in this movement, appalled the country some months since by his ghastly array of illiteracy in the Southern States.

During this transaction I witnessed the natural kindness of heart and disinterested tenderness of the female sex: no matter how distressing the circumstance or appalling the danger, they are, in all countries, the last to forsake man.

But Servian history before all this has many glories, which, one would think, would serve the turn of heroic song better than appalling defeat and, indeed, enslavement.

The first two he believed could be easily learned, but the third promised to afford appalling difficulties to a man unfamiliar with foreign methods and utterly lacking in trade acquaintances.

If the waves are appalling in their agitation, their thunders, their sterility, the forest is appalling in its silence, its dimness, its rest, and the invisibleness of the thousand kinds of life to which it gives a shelter.

Her mind struggled with a sense of appalling yet undefined disaster.

It was the love surging up in his tortured heart that alone held him to sanity and preventedas it seemed to him in that appalling momentthe dissolution of his very being and hers.

Next, flashes of lightning sped swiftly along the skies, and peals of crashing thunder appalled the earth and me likewise.

Wrapped in the mantle of the unknown, appalling by their craft, their ferocity, their fiendish cruelty, they seemed to the white settlers devils and not men; no one could say with certainty whence they came nor of what tribe they were; and when they had finished their dreadful work they retired into a wilderness that closed over their trail as the waves of the ocean close in the wake of a ship.

Shakespeare, "Make mad the guilty and appal the free.

He can express alike the beautiful tenderness of love, and the hectic, dizzy, and appalling frenzy of extreme rage: ...

She ventures to pluck from the forbidden tree of metaphysics; and, reckless of the fiats of the schools, she entered fearlessly into those inquiries which have appalled both Greek and schoolman.

Mutual fears appal the mingled group, Starting alternate at the unknown tongue: They fear a foe in each uncertain form That through the gloom imperfectly appears.

The heart is melted by the scene, and ready to receive an impressioneither to warn the innocent, or to appal the guilty; and numbers of those who have neither abilities nor time for deriving advantage from reading, are powerfully impressed through the medium of the eyes and ears, with those important truths which while they illuminate the understanding, correct the heart.

But assuming that there is some radical error about it all from her point of view, and assuming that there will not be either a conclusive peace favourable to Prussian interests, or even an inconclusive peace, but one in which the Allies will be able to dictate and enforce their own terms, the magnitude of the problems that will await their decision may well appal the most ingenious of their statesmen.

" This was appalling intelligence to receive at such a time, and in such a place!

The government of Naples had sworn to maintain a free constitution, but had disgracefully and without compunction violated every one of its conditions, and perpetrated cruelties and injustices which would have appalled the judges of imperial Rome, and defended them by a casuistry which surpassed in its insult to the human understanding that of the priests of the Spanish Inquisition.

And Marius lives to triumph o'er his foes, That train their warlike troops amidst the plains, And are enclos'd and hemm'd with shining arms, Not to appal such princely majesty.

The selfishness which rated its sordid interest paramount to any consideration for others appalled the young man.

But this conclusion, involving the belief that inherited sin is infinite, and deserving of infinite punishment, appals the mind.