Self, and after self a friend; the rest may go to the devil; and be sure that when any man is more stupidly vain and outrageously egotistic than his fellows, he will hide his hideousness in humanitarianism.

But it goes on its way immovable, grinding the poor, enslaving the slave, admiring hideousness, adulating vulgarity for its wealth and insignificance for its pedigree.

As for Yu-lang, the tedium of beholding the hideousness of all the guests was curiously diminished by the pleasure of seeing Prudence's delectable face.

Anything less than the truth will only blacken the hideousness of the crime that has already been committed.

Such a grave would give room for both beside the body, and dismiss the hideousness of the common representation.]

To guard against the burning effect of the sun and the prairie winds upon our faces, I had, during some of the last days of my visit, prepared for each of us a mask of brown linen, with the eyes, nose, and mouth fitted to our features; and, to enhance their hideousness, I had worked eyebrows, eyelashes, and a circle around the opening for the mouth, in black silk.

There can be no advantage to humanity in exhibiting the hideousness of disease or the monstrosities of certain natural phenomena!

" The sybils, of whom so many strange prophetic things are recorded, are all, if the Italian poets are to be credited, represented as very old women; and as if ugliness were the ne plus ultra of beauty in old age, they have given them all the hideousness of the devil himself.

It lacks the hideousness of exposure, so far as you see.

Beside him, stretched in its open sarcophagus which rested on three brazen trestles, lay the mummy of an ancient Memphian, from the upper part of which the brown cerements had rotted or been rent, leaving the hideousness of the naked, grinning countenance exposed to view.

Her dog-like amiability outweighed her hideousness.

Of course his disappointment had a great deal to do with his remorse; most people do not perceive the hideousness of sin until they begin to reap its consequences.

As the man took up the lamp and trimmed it, the light fell strongly upon his features, and revealed all their hideousness.

It may be possible to cure a vice by showing its hideousness.

Disproportionate outline, sharp conjunctures of affluence and squalor, accented the disheartening hideousness of the scene.

At last she could bear it no longer; she put her hands to her ears to shut out the hideousness of it.