Our subterranean bed-chamber was thus illuminated for a moment or two; I sprang to my feet in an instant for a ghastly and horrifying sight was revealed to us.

" These unique and horrifying snake dances of the Moki have been described so often that I need not speak of this performance in detail.

Talk about your horrifying comets with their tails of fire!

Such atrocities, as he remarked, however horrifying in times of peace, are of every-day occurrence between contending armies.

Her dress was hanging in tatters, and the blood trickling down her cheeks had a horrifying effect.

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Sometimes the wheels struck a large stone, terrifying Mr. Buller, who thought they were going to upset; and sometimes they sank into soft mud, horrifying Mr. Podington, who thought they were going to drown.

If it were the case that for ever copy sold, thirty were taken home from the store, that would be a horrifying outcome, for sure.

The grocer had scarcely entered the gate when he was arrested by an appalling shriek, followed by a succession of cries so horrifying that he felt half disposed to fly.

And at the time when the front of every woman's waist fell far below her belt in a copiously blousing sag, Mrs. Marshall's trim tautness had in it something horrifying.

She said them over and over, the sound of them was horrifying to her, but in her heart she did not believe them.

Separation from her husband was tame, but this was a horrifying breach of conventionality, such another as the Comtesse d'Agoult had smitten Paris with thirteen years before.

To a layman like myself this is an altogether astounding and horrifying idea, but Doctor Metchnikoff is a man of the very greatest scientific reputation, and it does not give him any qualm of horror or absurdity to advance it.

It was true, we both came from Colva, but to a young man like me seeking a job it was horrifying to read a learned man like Mascarenhas call me a chap.

If an European, a stranger to Africa, were to be placed on a sudden in the midst of the terror-struck people, he would imagine himself to be among a legion of demons, holding a revel over a fallen spirit; so peculiarly unearthly wild, and horrifying was the appearance of the dancing group, and the clamour which they made.

Through the horrifying, rapidly expanding concentric vapor shells, he saw the Vigilant Warrior crumpling into a heap.

In the United States the nuclear devastation of those horrifying years had been severe.

No shark, pirate nor man-killing whale had been missed; no ghastly wreck, derelict nor horrifying phantom of the sea had escaped the nameless, furious compiler.

Thy sons, having dragged Draupadi, and thereby incensed the sons of Pandu, have brought this frightful and horrifying calamity upon themselves.

And some of the customs of more "civilized" countries are at least as horrifying to the "savage" as his can be to us.

What such a person requires is both a divine and a physician; but that he should be told that he is fit for marriage and that marriage was expressly designed for him is not only misleading, it is absolutely horrifying.

Once the horrifying thought that he was her lover came to my mind, but it fled instantly.

The scene witnessed by the priests obeisant to the cruel judge was horrifying in the extreme.

For this was the most horrifying of dangerous animalsa mad dog.

Attend now, Sovereign Pontiff, to another and horrifying sight.