One singularly gaunt and fantastic one appalled me.
He was appalled but fascinated, and intense curiosity far outweighed his fear.
The gray morning of the 9th wanly lighted a surf that appalled the best swimmers: the sea was one wild agony of foam, the gale was rending off the heads of the waves and veiling the horizon with a fog of salt spray.
When he looked round his nest and saw the many open mouths about him, he might well be appalled to have another added to them.
Occasionally lady visitors went to look at him and give him some food--he was toddling about the room on unsteady legs--but charity seemed to be appalled by the official questions hanging about this child.
Thunder growled in the distance, waxing louder and louder, until its roar might have appalled the stoutest heart.
The glimpses Wallace had of the land appalled him, it was so flat and gray and bare.
The girls were appalled by the increasing clangor.
Mrs. Gray wasappalled at the state of affairs, but struggled to maintain a neutral position.
Christophe was appalled by the conversations that he had at Achille Roussin's with some of these fanatics.
The vastness and the duration of its horror appalled me.
The many murders of young women, the outrages upon little girls, the violent robberies that have happened since the demobilizing of the armies have appalled decent--minded people.
Tarzan explained briefly, but when he turned to the woman for confirmation of his statement he was appalled by her reply.
It was because the heart of a great nation was moved, and the shock which appalled and paralyzed the whole land, sent back its chilling horror to the very centre.
These, as they approached were appalled at the awful scene.
Appalled by the scene and confused by the horror, none knew what order was to be given or who was in command.
The Novgorodians appalled by the fate of Kief, and by the horrors which had accompanied the march of Mstislaf, took a solemn oath that they would struggle to the last drop of blood in defense of their liberties.
A smothered roar, swelling into pealing thunder ensued, which appalled every mind.
Souzdal and Vladimir, listened appalled to the reports of the tempest raging over the southern portion of the kingdom; and when the dark cloud disappeared and its thunders ceased, he congratulated himself in having escaped its fury.
She had not thought of this before, and she was startled and appalled by the apparent blackness of the future.
She knew that her duties would call for unlimited patience and self-control, and now that she found the die was cast, she was almost appalled to think that she had dared to assume so much.
Whenever an appalling situation arose, this group could be appalled for the rest of us.
Those who, actuated by a spirit in some humble resemblance to his, have entered deeply into the state of the people, such as it is found in our own nation, have often been appalled at the spectacle disclosed to them.
But they whom serious danger could not deter from renewing and indefinitely repeating such attempts at all hazards, were little likely to be appalled by these contumelies of speech.
I turned; and if I was not appalled to the same degree, as I return thanks to Heaven that I had not the cause, I was still startled by the sight that met my eyes.
Quite so," said Dick, who was appalled by the feebleness of the production.
Not a hope to save Violante, from a fate that now appalled her, seemed to remain.
But the shrieks of the appalled victim pierced through the uproar which surrounded her.
The imagination is appalled in contemplating this melancholy addition to the ordinary miseries of war.
Appalled at the dreadful fate that menaced me, I clutched frantically at the only large root which remained near me, but in vain; I could not reach it, though my fingers were within a few inches of it.
And yet, Heaven knows, many an indurated gambler might have drawn backappalled at the first hint of some of Pinkerton's investments!
Instead of making an unexpected fortune he had lost a berth, and he was besides disgusted with the rations, and really appalled at the condition of the schooner.
Of course, from the nature of our business, Pinkerton could do a thing of that kind at a figure extremely reduced; for all that, I was appalled at the extravagance, and said so.
When Henry the Eighth attempted to raise a forced loan of unusual amount by proceedings of unusual rigour, the opposition which he encountered was such as appalled even his stubborn and imperious spirit.
The committee, incensed by the treachery and appalled by the danger, knew not what course to take.
The fops and intriguers of Versailles were appalled and bewildered by his vigour.
A storm broke forth, whichappalled even those who remembered the days of Excise and of South-Sea.
Their cries and contortions had appalled the European ministers of justice, but had not produced the smallest effect on the iron stoicism of the prisoner.
In both cases, when the explosion came, it came with a violence which appalled and disgusted many of those who had previously been distinguished by the freedom of their opinions.
Yet still, as in the solitude of night he paced his chamber, the shadow of the great crime advancing upon his soul appalled even that dauntless conscience.
I had a dream in the night that startled and appalled me.
