"Horridly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Seraglio Point, men were rowing in a boat; and a corded sack lay in the stern, horridly and ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers
... travelling servant, and really a better companion than many more educated people; for she is always amused and curious, and is friendly with the coloured people. She is quite recovered. It is a wonderful climate—sans que cela paraisse. It feels chilly and it blows horridly, and does not seem genial, but it gives ...
— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon
... 1776, he underwent the process of dunning from Lord Derby, before-mentioned, and in 1779 from Mr Crawford ('Fish Crawford,' as he was called), each of whom, like Mr Shafto, 'had a sum to make up'—in the infernal style so horridly provoking, even when we are able and willing to pay. However, as Selwyn died comparatively rich, it may be presumed that his fortune suffered to no great extent by his indulgence in ...
— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz
... at cards was tremendously heavy last week; would have broken a less solid man. He had been drinking when he played last, and made horridly flat moves." ...
— Divers Women • Pansy and Mrs. C.M. Livingston
... tiny shrill, shuddering complaint. Small wonder, perhaps, that the peasant holds it in horror—this sleek, furry, powerfully winged creature marked with skull and bones, which whirrs through the night and comes thudding against the window, and shrieks horridly when touched ...
— Barbarians • Robert W. Chambers
... me a pace or two, however, before I reached the door, looking horridly angry, but stopped, and only swore after me some of those 'wry words' which I was never to have heard. I was myself, however, too much incensed, and moving at too rapid a pace, to catch their import; and I had knocked at my ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... of the evening his voice sounded strange to him, horridly shouting; he shook his clinched fists at ...
— The Proud Prince • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... benefit herself and the world. We have a strange theory about our young women that are well to do in the world. We think that they must be great babies, and be fed, and clothed, and housed, and posted about in carriages, waited upon and petted as though they were made for nothing else. It is horridly vulgar for such young women to work. It would be a violation of propriety for them to be useful. They would lose caste if they should engage in any useful employment. So they must be useless appendages, hung about ...
— Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women • George Sumner Weaver
... that my Lady Toss-up? I shou'd hardly have known her, but by her down-right English Air—why no body minds her—Sir Harry, give the Lady a Pinch of sweet Snuff.—[Aside.] She's horridly concern'd at my Attractions, yet too proud to shew it, and looks as disconsolately gay, as a Maid of Thirty at the Wedding of her youngest Sister; how I love to ...
— The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) • Thomas Baker
... a worse in store for her. She already anticipated the tortures of that day, when she would again be dragged out from her resting-place before the eyes of all mankind, and placed in the very middle of the crowd, conspicuous above the rest, to be stared at, bullied, and questioned horridly about that dread subject, which it even racked her mind to remember. Would she be able on that long, long day—days, for what she knew—to conceal her shame from all who would be looking at her, and to bear in ...
— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope
... up old misdeeds! She was a harmless old thing. I believe the tinies were very fond of her, but we elders had not much to do with her, only we used to think her horridly particular.' ...
— That Stick • Charlotte M. Yonge
... them off now?" cried Patty. "I'm so glad. They're horridly uncomfortable. I'll never wear one again. I love a fancy dress party, but I don't see any sense in ...
— Patty's Social Season • Carolyn Wells
... unaltered eye, at the mangled remains of his son. Not so the mother, she threw herself on the earth, and receiving the cold and ghastly head into her lap, she sat contemplating those muscular features, on which the death-agony was still horridly impressed, in a silence far more expressive than any language ...
— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper
... not at all; and yet I was so horridly frighted, that I had rather die ten Times over, ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus |
