A faint--faint light glimmered through the little grating at the end of the dungeon; and the man kept his eyes fixed upon it so long, that at length his imagination began to conjure up phantoms to appal him.
Dangers seen sometimes appal us, or appal those who love us: but they are not more real than many we never dream of.
His chagrin at his failure "to appal the minds of the Canadians" was so great that ten days later he resigned his command.
He would drown the stage with tears And cleave the general ear with horrid speech; Make mad the guilty and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that Which might appalthe devil.
The mystery that hangs over the departure of any craft that goes by wind is calculated to appal the landsman; and when the date of sailing is fixed, the best thing he can do is to go aboard in season and compose his soul in peace.
What art thou, double-tongued, deceitful being, Who wouldst bewilder and appal me?
A juggling minx, who plays the well-learned part Of heroine, thus to appal the brave?
When you have left the camp No devil will againappal our troops.
Such a defence as the thicket afforded was one not easy to attack; its unseen but certain dangers being sufficient to appal the stoutest heart.
A search for Custer and his men was immediately began, and it revealed a scene calculated to appal the stoutest heart.
The awfulness of the difficulties in art now rose up in his mind to appal him, and he uttered a sigh.
Zuleika sighs, what fears appal Her soul, lest this should him befall.
They might slay her so that she left perforce her mission unaccomplished; but no dread of such a fate had even an instant's power to appal her or arrest her.
But she was of too brave a mould to suffer any foe--even the foe that conquers kings--to have power to appal her.
Both Spaniards and savages united in the most hideous yells to appal the pirates with an idea of their superior numbers.
These were tidings sufficient to appal any ordinary mind.
Morgan wished to strike a blow which shouldappal the whole city.
But the time required for rewriting a book of this class, after it has grown into shape, would be enough to appal a person who had no other duties to perform, and absolutely prohibitive to one not so happily placed.
Mr. Fairfax Murray has collected over a dozen studies and preliminary drawings for this little block, that would appal some of the younger men as evidence of the intense care with which a masterpiece was wrought of old.
The scene before them was one to appal the bravest.
At last her plank an eddy crossed, And bore her to the city's wall, 105 Which now the flood had reached almost; It might the stoutest heart appal To hear the fire roar and hiss Through the domes of those mighty palaces.
In times of moral darkness and chaotic social conditions, when men are guided by a few rude principles, things are done that afterwards appal themselves, and yet may become an example for future outbreaks.
No misfortune can appal me now," murmured he gallantly.
I'll thunder music shall appal the nymphs, And make them shiver their clattering strings: Flying for succour to their Danish caves.
Tortures were framed to dread the baser eye, And not t'appal a princely majesty.
Their success did not appal Antonelli nor shake his fidelity.
Was this all a horrid dream, a fearful jest of the summer's night to appal my soul?
As if in sudden madness, she wildly stretches out her hands as if to push away the thronging phantoms which appal her.
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