Monsters

Examples

• The fighting strength and efficiency of this horde of ferocious green monsters was equivalent to ten times their number of red men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But if you would see the very heart and home of cripples and human monsters, both, go straight to Constantinople. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• As I turned my eyes in the direction the girl indicated, I saw a dozen of the great white monsters running across the valley toward the river bank. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• We are neither temptresses, nor terrors, nor monsters. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Are kings such monsters that a wish like that must be reckoned a royal virtue? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He includes monsters and varieties, not from their partial resemblance to the parent-form, but because they are descended from it. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He had as a boy been haunted by the fear of monsters and witches in which the credulous of all classes then believed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• They are most treacherous monsters, and when least expected break out in full fury. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• These monsters failed creatively to develop, so God, the creative mystery, dispensed with them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I can but die, and God, I hope, will have mercy on me, very soon after our separation, if ever it should be found necessary; but we are not monsters! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They are quite different from your uncle's tenants or Sir James's--monsters--farmers without landlords--one can't tell how to class them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came towards him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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