Monster

Examples

• The boat now began, with heavy groans, like some vast, tired monster, to prepare to push up among the multiplied steamers at the levee. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And Birkin seemed to her almost a monster of hateful arrogance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Thompson_ DEEP SEA MONSTER CAPTURED OFF FLORIDA So far as the scientific world is concerned, this is the only fish of its kind ever captured. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To England, then, I conveyed her; a fearful voyage I had with such a monster in the vessel. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Never, never, you monster! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I had been the author of unalterable evils; and I lived in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Not that she would encourage him in the least--the poor uncouth monster--of course not. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Before I could recover myself, this monster in human form shouted out furiously, Miss Jane Ann Stamper be----! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It could lynch one as a moral monster, when as a matter of fact his ideals were commonplace; it could proclaim one a great benefactor when in truth he was a rather dull old gentleman. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Monster, away! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Does any one suppose that I would have taken such a monster as you by any other name? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The drops which lashed her face were not scorpions, but prosy rain; Egdon in the mass was no monster whatever, but impersonal open ground. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The eyes of that monster of wickedness moistened while he was speaking to me--they did, Walter! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Such a monster has then really existence; I cannot doubt it; yet I am lost in surprise and admiration. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In recent great battleships four turrets are used, each carrying three of these great guns, giving a broadside of twelve of these monster weapons of war. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• 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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