It's a weary, dreary business, perpetual atrocious suffering, and you must pardon my replying to you as I can and not at all as I would.
I have been down these seven weeks with an atrocious and apparently absolutely endless attack of "Shingles"--herpes zonalis, you see I know!
The monks in sympathy with the ardent zeal of Las Casas began to preach vehemently against the atrocious wrongs which were inflicted upon the wretched natives, and he was sent as curate to a village in Cuba.
Dealers and manufacturers adulterate all kinds of provisions in an atrocious manner, and without the slightest regard to the health of the consumers.
The prevailing construction of Edinburgh favours these atrocious conditions as far as possible.
In the palaces which we saw, several Court allegories were represented, which, atrocious as they were in point of art, might yet serve to attract the regard of the moraliser.
It was from a thrust of a bull's horn which had left him almost dead in the plaza of a certain town, and to this atrocious wound others were added that disfigured the hidden parts of his body.
Alcohol and the atrocious falls in the ring kept him in a perpetual state of stupidity, as if his head buzzed and prevented him from saying more than a few words and permitted him but a clouded vision of things in general.
For three days Gallardo was subjected to atrocious operations and groaned with pain, for his weak state did not permit of the use of anaesthetics.
The atrocious goring in the plaza of Seville, with the rigor of physical pain, had softened the force of his amorous torment.
Besides theatrocious and incurable wound, the bull-fighter had received a tremendous shock from the bull's tossing.
She has known the most atrocious sufferings from hunger.
Such is the situation of Hungary, which has lost everything, and which suffers the most atrocious privations and the most cruel pangs of hunger.
But the perpetrator of that atrociousmurder did flourish many years afterwards.
Look at the men who engage in the atrocious six-day walks and bicycle races.
For a time, you will understand, the change was shown only in an increased vivacity, and an air of menace, as if it was always brooding over some atrocious plan.
The thing exhibited anatrocious determination to thwart me.
Come back with me, and leave it to me to fully establish your innocence of the atrocious crime of which they believe you guilty.
Some one under this roof has been guilty of this most atrocious act," continued the doctor, in a stern voice.
This was my first sight of that most magnificent of all theatrocious inventions of human evil--an army.
The execution of the Alban dictator, who was dismembered by eight horses, is represented by Livy as the first and the fast instance of Roman cruelty in the punishment of the most atrocious crimes.
Maheput Sing, an atrocious robber, holds his fort of Bhowaneegur in this jungle.
But he was indulged by the Padshah Begum in each habits of atrocious cruelties to other children, that he soon became detested by all around him but herself and the boy's natural mother, Afzul-mahal.
He shuddered, or pretended to shudder, at the mention of the name of the Padshah Begum, as the most atrocious of murderesses.
As soon as this was done, I returned with my force; the son remained in possession of the estate, and all the surrounding country was delighted to hear that so atrocious a character had been got rid of.
More atrocious crimes than those which they every month commit it is difficult to conceive.
Akber Sing, the most atrocious of all the gang, had his arm taken off by a cannon-shot, and was seized.
After reading such narratives, an Englishman will naturally ask what are the means by which such atrociousgangs are enabled to escape the hands of justice.
Bikhai, one of the mostatrocious of Maheput's followers, was killed; but he killed two of the besiegers, and wounded two more before he fell.
They were chiefly the great landholders of the kingdom, and they saw in this atrocious act a declaration against all property; but they had also the higher motive of its being a declaration against all government.
Chance has a treasure-house of atrocious combinations.
An atrocious troubadour clock ornamented the mantel-piece representing the templar Bois-Guilbert bearing off a gilded Rebecca upon a silver horse.
I heeded not his atrocious plea, but leaned with all my might on his chest, which cracked under my knee, and, squeezing his throat with my two hands, I strangled the impious one.
Never before had the spirit of Iahveh breathed forth such atrocious fury.
They are worse than the Vandals, for the Vandals, although they destroyed the buildings of antiquity, did not replace them with hideous and disgusting erections and atrocious bridges like the Pont d'Alexandre.
Essex, whose watchfulness over the life of his sovereign was remarkable, whilst his intelligences were comparable in extent and accuracy to those of Walsingham himself, was the first to give notice of this atrocious plot.
And thus her mind was diverted from this atrocious purpose!
Lord Rochford is universally believed to have fallen a victim to the atrociousperjuries of his wife, who was very improperly admitted as a witness against him, and whose infamous conduct was afterwards fully brought to light.
They cited in support of this atrocious proposal the example of Henry VIII.
The last transaction in which he was concerned, was of so atrocious a nature, that he thought fit to abscond, and he has not been heard of since.
The lady was loud in her reprobation of the atrocious abuse that had recently been heaped upon the noble lord, and joined in his assumed clannish regard for their mutual name.
We shall soon have to ask the reader’s sympathy for the fate of Vasco Nuñez himself; meanwhile, it may be well to bear in mind of what atrocious conduct he could on occasion be guilty towards others.
Little further is known of him, and he would have scarcely been remembered, but for a deadly feud which arose between him and his above-mentioned neighbours, and a series of atrocious murders arising thereout.
I cannot accept her atrocious talent as inspired merely by the craving for a feast obtained at the expense of an empty stomach.
The atrocious banquet sometimes lasts for half an hour or longer.
It was within a few months after this very time that the atrocious persecution and murder of Lovejoy took place in the neighboring town of Alton.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "atrocious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
