The very sight of their old commander turned the hearts of the revolting element and the officers remained loyal to their noble leader.

" The scene immediately before us was so revolting that I had no desire to gaze at it longer, and there was a certain sense of relief in my mind when the sergeant, prompted by me, had thus decided upon a definite course of action.

Gallienus was often cruel, but could he intend such a revolting massacre?

He could not but acknowledge that the imposture he panted to expose was at least the source of much innocent happiness, and almost wished that the importance of religion, considered as an engine of policy, had been offered to his contemplation from this point of view, instead of the sordid and revolting aspect in which it had been exhibited by the old woman.

The rendezvous was Sardis, from which the army marched east under the pretext of chastising the revolting mountaineers of Pisidia.

Of course there are always some who, having lost that fine edge of feeling to which this kind of relief is revolting, are not unwilling to live idly upon the rates as much and as long as possible at any time, and who will even descend to pitiful schemes to wring from this source whatever miserable income they can get.

Belon says, that in spite of its revolting taste when unaccustomed to it, the bittern is, however, among the delicious treats of the French.

When you go to Philadelphia, Miss Effingham, you will see an instance of a most ludicrous natureludicrous, if there were not something painfully revolting mingled with itof the manner in which men can strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; and which, I am sorry to say, is immediately connected with our own church.

Confronted by Fairfax's ill-guarded gold, maddened by the girl's contemptuous indifference, no deed of violence and blood was too revolting for him to commit.

Every nerve in him was tingling, revolting against the brutality.

The chief eunuch of the Bardo has the most revolting countenance.

And to these two combatants correspond two places of combat; the Porte Saint Martin when the middle-class are revolting, the Bastille when the people are revolting.

And to these two combatants correspond two places of combat; the Porte Saint Martin when the middle-class are revolting, the Bastille when the people are revolting.

For ever I would vow my selfe his friend, Never revolting till my life did end.

And so marked is this lesson of a superintending Providence over all human action, that a wise and good man can see wars and revolutions and revolting crimes with almost philosophical complacency, knowing that out of destruction proceeds creation; that the wrath of man is always overruled; that the love of God is the brightest and clearest and most consoling thing in the universe.

The greedy crowd that pushed and strove in the heated rooms, he regarded as downright revolting.

The Curse of Hungary Saloman looked from his donjon bars, Where the Danube clamors through sedge and sand, And he cursed with a curse his revolting land, With a king's deep curse of treason and wars.

It was revolting to his soul to associate the image of Rosa with such base surroundings; but it seemed as if some fiend persisted in holding the painful picture before him.

The first act is devoted to an elaborate painting of a somewhat revolting phase of parvenu society in Paris.

He knows the sins of his fellow men and women, their follies and hypocrisies, he receives incredible confessions, he is constantly summoned to the scenes of revolting crime.

They are in Chinato take a striking instanceaccompanied by habits so revolting that I cannot now allude to them.

Others will talk about the loathsome spectacle and the revolting scene; that is, they will accuse it of a deficiency of art, or æsthetic beauty.

Volpone is the most powerful of all his dramas, but is a harsh and disagreeable piece; and the state of society which it depicts is too revolting for comedy.

These recount the marvelous exploitsnot unfrequently manifestly fabulousof their rude heroes; their deeds of might, their noble enterprises, their indomitable courage, their persistent activity, and often their deeds of most revolting cruelty.

That which, in every other individual, would be inconsistent, nay, in a certain sense, revolting, is, in her, sublime and noble.