Here were appalling engineering difficulties to overcome, which no private corporation without the most liberal government support could have undertaken.
With its body half crouched, its head erect, and its eyes round and black, from its pupils having expanded in the dusky light, it looked at once a noble and appalling sight.
How many pilgrim feet throughout the ages, toiling devoutly thus far, have shrunk back before that unexpected and appalling sign!
This doctrine they asserted with one voice, everywhere, not only under the greatest discouragements, but in the face of the most appalling terrors that can be presented to the mind of man.
She was in a death grapple with appalling fate, and that handkerchief would decide the issue.
In the appalling realization of her fate, she rocked to and fro for a moment only, fiercely shaken by the horror of a future never before contemplated.
Now and then a vivid zig-zag flash gored the intense darkness with its baleful blue death-light, followed by a crash, appalling as if the battlements of heaven had been shattered.
As the Union troops emerged from the town they were in fair range of an appalling fire that mowed down scores.
The Albemarle demonstrated on the first opportunity the appalling power she possessed.
The people living in the valley below had often reflected upon the appalling consequences if this dam should give way.
The "Reign of Terror" had begun in France, where the most appalling revolution in history had taken place.
This placed them in direct range of 300 heavy guns which concentrated their appallingfire upon them, the shots following one another as rapidly as the ticking of a watch.
By that time it was growing dark and the Merrimac steamed back to Sewall's Point, intending to return the next morning and complete her appalling work of destruction.
A good many people began to declare this demand exorbitant, and that, if the real necessity existed, the Union was not worth such an appalling cost of human life.
This placed them in direct range of 300 heavy guns, which concentrated their appalling fire upon them, the shots following one another as rapidly as the ticking of a watch.
Every man uttered a prayer of thanks when the 21st of December arrived, for it meant that the appalling polar night was half over, but how endless the other half seemed to them!
But an Empire cannot be so governed, and the result of the experiment has been an amount of human suffering appalling to contemplate.
The limit of endurable taxation had been reached; the army imperatively needed thorough reorganization; and the people and the land were still being scourged by famine upon famine of the most appalling character.
He was astonished to find all around him the indications of anappalling misery.
Belonging to a queer folk or not, I found the prospect more and more dismally appalling according as my mind regained its clarity.
But I will set calmly down the story of this appalling afternoon.
The German advance into France was spectacular, but it was paid for by an appalling death-roll.
The winter of 1914 had witnessed an appalling degree of frightfulness in eastern Belgium, the Wallon or French-speaking part of the country more especially.
What was supposed to be a trench, however, was found to be a sunken road, frightfully shell-pitted, and in a most appalling condition of mud and water.
The tanks had struggled wonderfully with the appalling conditions, but the ground was against them, and most of them were "ditched" before they were knocked out.
The appalling howls of his following, as they gathered from brake and bush, might have chilled the stoutest heart.
In short, an appalling condition of interstate warfare was revealed that was hurting business generally and killing railroad development.
If you are a traveler at all familiar with the Middle West and the South; if you are traveling steadily and consistently these years over all of their rail routes, you must have been convinced of their appalling condition.
The peacemakers of to-morrow have it in their power not only to crush "Prussian militarism," but to prevent an appalling upheaval which would shake human society to its foundations.
Our intellectual and artistic joy in following the severe and simple outline of his political system is only marred by the thought of the appalling practical consequences of those doctrines.
Greater exertions and moreappalling sacrifices are needed, and yet all the motives for further sacrifices have vanished.
It is one of the most appalling misunderstandings of history.
Instead of being able to leave Upsidonia with a comfortable fortune, I should leave it under an appalling burden of debt.
It was Hobson who brought home to me the appalling reality.
It is appalling in any case to hear of anything so sudden; but what makes it worse is, that I spent some part of to-day in his company.
And he was not sure that he might not be running the risk of a refusal, a thing which is very appalling to a young man's imagination.
They fancy some appalling unknown dissolution would at once result from reasonable action.
She had told him, with appalling frankness, that after engaging herself to him (by telephone!
Yankev, and Gietel his wife, had an appalling story to tell, and I listened to it as we squatted on deck under the twinkling stars.
An appalling noise arose above the roar to which my ears had grown accustomed, and which seemed the normal stillness.
What pen can describe the turmoil, the danger, and the appalling grandeur of the scene, how black as Erebus, and again illumined by a blaze of lightning?
These human wings, this failing flight reawakened in Giovanni the old appalling doubts about Leonardo, his master.
Presently chance words from a passer-by explained to him the noisome odour which pursued him; it was the appalling stench of burned human bodies.
He ended his days in an appalling and persistent paroxysm of ennui, desiring the death which would not come to his relief.
For that mysterious man of genius had explored the dark and devious paths of Renaissance vice, and had penetrated the secrets of Italian wickedness with truly appalling lucidity.
How his own division capitulated by the blood-stained banks of the Asinarus after a six days' march of appalling misery, and how that of Demosthenes surrendered in the olive-field of Polyzelus, is too well known.
Are the human agonies of the doomed house of Thebes made less appalling by tracing back the tale of OEdipus to some prosaic source in old astronomy?
A more revolting and appallingspectacle I never witnessed.
Believe me, my dear sir, when I say that I cannot express my deep gratitude in words sufficiently for your kindness to me on that fearful and appalling day.
An appalling accident happened at the People's Park near Birmingham, this last July, when it was crowded with people from the Black Country--an appalling accident consequent on a shamefully dangerous exhibition.
The rain increased in violence, appalling even those who heard it from under cover.
Then came the second hurricane of rain, so appalling that had Babbie's hands been free she would have pressed them to her ears.
This war lasted five years and for Paraguay was one long succession of appalling disasters.
It may be that the Spaniards ought not to be blamed for these efforts to complete their conquest of Chile and the appalling amount of bloodshed and distress they caused.
This rear guard was to save if possible an appalling number of stragglers, so numbed with the cold, that they obstinately refused to leave the baggage-wagons.
If either of them deserved to be pitied, that one was certainly Philip; did he not bear alone the burden of an appalling sorrow?
