Horrors

Examples

• In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• There are such lots of horrors this morning, she added, clearing a space in the centre of the confusion and rising to yield her seat to Miss Bart. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Thy language, answered Rowena, hath in its indifferent bluntness something which cannot be reconciled with the horrors it seems to express. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Of all the horrors that rose with an ill scent upon the morning air, that was the foulest and most cruel. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I affirm that the remedy which that admirable lady has proposed is the only remedy that will spare you the horrors of public scandal. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish. Plato. The Republic.
• Compeyson's wife, being used to him, giv him some liquor to get the horrors off, and by and by he quieted. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And its heart-break and its horrors, can they be told? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I'll gossip and giggle, and have horrors and raptures over any trifle you like. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Another, and stronger, please; if I don't keep awake now I shall see horrors tonight--perfect horrors! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• No lurking horrors were to upbraid him for his easy credulity. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Mine has been a tale of horrors; I have reached their _acme_, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But here have I been stewing and fuming in this jolly old crib till I have had the horrors falling on me as thick as hail. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Bertha can already make her believe anything she pleases--and I'm afraid she's begun, my poor child, by insinuating horrors about you. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• You force yourself into horrors, and put a mill-stone of beastly memories round your neck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Some one told me my father used to lie sleepless and think of horrors. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• We must go: in change of scene, in occupation, and such security as we still hoped to find, we should discover a cure for these gathering horrors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It must be pure bliss to arrange the furniture just as one likes, and give all the horrors to the ash-man. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Amidst the horrors of that dream I think the worst lay here. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I don't know--I don't listen to such horrors. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The expedition was successful, but he was disgusted by what he saw of the cruelties and horrors of war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Has had the horrors, too, and fancied that four copper-coloured men in red wanted to throw him into a fiery furnace. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I don't know how she's there,' says Arthur, shivering dreadful with the horrors, 'but she's standing in the corner at the foot of the bed, awful mad. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It will never reach your ears, dear lady, and God forbid such horrors should! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It is not enough to teach the horrors of war and to avoid everything which would stimulate international jealousy and animosity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Markham, the poet, has seized upon this picture, dwelt eloquently on its horrors, and apostrophised it as if it were a condition now existing. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He knew the horrors of purulent infection in military hospitals, and regretted that the principles of Pasteur and Lister were not more fully applied. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Do we have to talk always of horrors? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Certainly, a collection of horrors, says my Lady, gathering up her mantles and furs, but they interest one for the moment! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But the horrors of the unknown had passed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Editor: Maynard