1833 examples of horrid in sentences

"I'd never help either of the horrid little things out again.

"They just laughed and turned their heads the other way, horrid things!

"We don't want to get arrested again, it's not a bit nicethough I suppose if this is where the Queen's friend lives, it isn't likely anything so horrid will happen to us.

A horrid little face peeping out at us from behind that tree!" Rudolf saw the face too, a winking, blinking, leering, little face much like the one that had grinned at Ann from the post of the big bed not so very long ago.

Catch him!" Closer and closer the horrid little things pressed about the two children.

"I know you," she cried, turning angrily on the Fidgets, "you horrid little things!

The Indian walked next, stepping softly and silently on his moccasined feet, and turning now and then to make a horrid face at the children who followed behind him, one on either side of the Knight-mare.

"He's horrid," said she.

and why you ran away to find those horrid creatures!" "Aren't horrid," said Peter, wriggling away from her, "and 'tis Manunderthebed's house, 'cause he came out by the little door when the Bad Dreams brought me.

and why you ran away to find those horrid creatures!" "Aren't horrid," said Peter, wriggling away from her, "and 'tis Manunderthebed's house, 'cause he came out by the little door when the Bad Dreams brought me.

First we had to go to that horrid place out West, and stay ages and ages.

it's the truth, and I shouldn't hesitate to tell itI found the most pious of the directors the least accessible; as to old Glentworth, he actually talked to me as if I was recommending the committal of some horrid sin.

See, how the horrid phantom bends his bow, And points his dart to lay that victim low!

But had they removed that horrid feather-bed?

Its appearance was singularly jarring, shattering as it did his dream of the cloister, and up-building in fancy the horrid fabric of marriage and domesticity.

The grass is full of that horrid prickly gorse.

The long thin neck is upon her; she feels the horrid strength of the coils as they curl and slip about her, drawing her whole life into one knotted and loathsome embrace.

"Do you acknowledge my quarrel just?" said Osmund, between horrid sobs.

The girl swept opposition before her with gusts of demoniacal fury, wept, shrieked, tore at her hair, and eventually fell into a sort of epileptic seizure; between rage and terror she became a horrid, frenzied beast.

Very curiously, before the soup was finished, we became aware that the candles which assisted the electric glow lamps (merely for artistic effect) began to flare in a most uncandlelike mannerthe flames turning down, as if some one were blowing downward on the wicks; and at the same time the complaints of "Draughts, horrid draughts!" became general, and from every quarter.

Kitchens are horrid when girls have just gone out of them, and left the dish-towels dirty, and the dish-cloth all wabbled up in the sink, and all the tins and irons wanting to be cleaned.

"It is the middle that's horrid.

After the china and glass were done and put up, came forth the coffee-pot and the two pans, and had their scald, and their little scour,a teaspoonful of sand must go to the daily cleansing of an iron utensil, in mother's hands; and that was clean work, and the iron thing never got to be "horrid," any more than a china bowl.

It's all afloat,hair-brushes out on voyages of discovery, and a horrid little kelpie sculling round on a hat-box!"

There is a horrid sensation created by their ugly forms that makes me wish them all to Jericho.

1833 examples of  horrid  in sentences