Terrifying

Examples

• She could feel his body gradually relaxing a little, losing its terrifying, unnatural rigidity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One--twice--thrice that terrifying cry rang out across the teeming solitude of that unspeakably quick, yet unthinkably dead, world. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Another word from the great Thark, and with a wild and terrifying battle-cry the green warriors charged. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Oh, it was the most terrifying experience one could imagine--I cannot even write of it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Scarcely had they closed their eyes than the terrifying cry of a panther rang out from the jungle behind them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Aren't they really terrifying? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And, since I am so terrifying, take me altogether---- Doctor Bankhead, I'll ring the bell, and I tried to reach it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• We had an arc there of a most terrifying character, but they never moved a muscle. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The sisters found themselves confronted by a void, a terrifying chasm, as if they had looked over the edge. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He winced a little at her terrifying perspicacity, and longed to ask: And May--do they quote her? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I don't know whether he smiled, but he said in a gentlemanly tone--that is to say, a tone not hard nor terrifying,--What sort of trunk was yours? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She put her arms round his terrifying, insentient body, and laid her cheek against his hard shoulder. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• One of the gang that ran, but, in this case, only to the end of the room, afterward said: At the time it was a terrifying experience, as I didn't know what was going to happen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At length Tars Tarkas laughed softly, after the manner of his strange kind when in the presence of the horrible or terrifying. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• This was indeed a great and terrifying thing that Parliament had done. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The repeated sharp blows of unknown, terrifying noise struck through her till she was rocking with terror. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But the perfect silence was most terrifying, isolating the soul, surrounding the heart with frozen air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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