It may possibly be said, Why all this virtuous indignation about Monte Carlo, when gambling, to a frightful extent, is carried on at our clubs and stock exchanges in England?
Frightful disability, to be out of the reach of the dearest market when you want to sell your drawings!
At a distance, he seemed to have suffered some frightful injury to his head, but when he was brought into the midst of the company it appeared that he had twisted a red handkerchief about his face as if to soothe a toothache.
They worshipped by stealth, hiding in caves and thickets, and suffered frightful persecution; but remained steadfast, and formed a union among themselves for mutual succour, and became the United Brethren.
To the right and left the precipice is split by a frightful chasm a thousand feet deep, between jagged perpendicular cliffs.
Over his huge shoulders waved two enormous sable wings; and his hair was supplied by living snakes which twined themselves with frightful hissings.
Her journalist husband was away till late at night, so while sitting up for him she wrote frightful stories to keep herself from being scared.
Another[116] is the record of a spirit of frightful evil that haunts a house built on the spot where an older house once stood, whose diabolism lingers on to curse the living.
It is sweet to be roused from a frightful dream by the song of birds, and the gladsome rays of the morning.
Adams informed me that the patient had been warned of the danger of discontinuing opium by several eminent medical men, who, at the same time, represented the frightful consequences that would most probably ensue.
I guess, 'twas frightful there to see A lady so richly clad as she-- Beautiful exceedingly!
When she saw that frightful countenance, black and convulsed, she rose up with a shudder, then pressed her face against the ground, giving vent to terrible and continuous screams with her mouth close to the thick moss.
He did not yet know why the darkness seemed to seem frightful to him; but he instinctively feared it, he felt that it was peopled with terrors.
They drew him out of the trench; they removed his clothes, and they saw a frightful wound, through which the intestines came out.
Then he took up the revolver, opened his mouth wide with a frightful grimace, and stuck the barrel into it, as if he wanted to swallow it.
The frightfulgrip of the long, hairy arms relaxed.
We'll have a frightful time with thirst, to say nothing of not being able to make the Pulverite.
It was with strange feelings they once more approached the scene of their battle against such frightful odds with the Horde.
Before either Stern or the girl had time even to struggle or so much as recover from the shock of this fell sight, they were both pushed roughly between two of the posts into the frightful circle.
Then he began to count again; and so, tense, watching with eager-burning eyes and taut muscles, the man and woman made their way of frightful peril.
Past him as he ran a man staggered; the whole side of his head was bashed in, as though by a frightful blow from a mace.
But, by the Almighty, we're in one frightful fix every other way!
He thanked God that the girl had been spared these frightful scenes.
And all about the fire, Stern saw a wheeling, circling, eddying mob of black and frightful shapes.
The silence of death that lay over the place was appalling--that and the relics of the frightful battle.
Ten times more ominous and frightful the vast blue mystery beneath them now appeared than it had seemed before.
Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal in upon them by decrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes in order to be received.
Impelled by a smarting sense of the degradation they had suffered in the attack on the wall, and in the subsequent delay which had occurred before the storming of the breach, the army now gave itself up to frightful excesses.
Were you born with that frightful laugh on your face?
He had been drawn without, and then, by a frightful snare, had fallen into a chaos of murky laughter, which was hell.
Never had been seen so total an eclipse of humanity in a human face; never parody more complete; never had apparition more frightful grinned in nightmare; never had everything repulsive to woman been more hideously amalgamated in a man.
The frightful chain which tied down his soul hindered his thoughts from rising to his face.
She paused; then with a frightful smile went on, "I love you, not only because you are deformed, but because you are low.
This face was frightful, so frightful that it was absurd.
It was like a number of giants, rising up one after another--a series of frightful duels.
That this low woman of the court should have the odious power of being a benefactress, and that a man so superior should be condemned to pick up such bribes falling from such a hand, what a frightful iniquity!
How she would have recoiled from her frightful loadstone!
There are frequent earthquakes in Japan, and to build many-storeyed blocks would mean frightful disaster and loss of life.
There is only one floor, for, of course, the King could never risk the frightful indignity of having anyone's feet above his head.
In England the same frightful scenes were enacted.
All these frightful doctrines have been used to degrade and to enslave mankind.
Caught in this frightful web, at the mercy of the spiders of superstition, hope fled, and nothing remained but the insanity of confession.
His idea was, that if God had decreed from all eternity that a certain man should die with the small-pox, it was a frightful sin to avoid and annul that decree by the trick of vaccination.
The frightful famine, during which the dying child with pallid lips sucked the withered bosom of a dead mother, was sent by the loving gods.
Sometimes, when I read and think about these frightful things, it seems to me that I have suffered all these horrors myself.
These frightful doctrines must be abandoned; the miraculous must be given up, the wonderful stories must be expunged, and from the creed of noble deeds the forgeries of superstition must be blotted out.
We are asked to justify these frightful passages, these infamous laws of war, because the Bible is the word of God.
Compared with him, the most frightful deities of the most barbarous and degraded tribes are miracles of goodness and mercy.
There was a time when people believed the infamy commanded in this frightful passage.
One can hardly imagine the frightful state of the human mind during these long centuries of darkness and superstition.
Wesley and Whitfield said: This frightfultruth ought to be proclaimed from the housetop of every opportunity, from the highway of every occasion.
And when the doctor was told of what the patient had done, he expressed great surprise that he was still alive, and complimented his constitution upon being able to bear such a frightful strain.
The desire of attaining possession of her paternal inheritance, and the yearning, growing day by day more imperious, for wreaking vengeance on her father for the affront put upon her, suggested to her a frightful crime.
And such courage was necessary: what frightful revelations he heard!
The sorceress has foretold frightful misfortunes to the countess if she should marry the marquis, being paid for so doing by a Madame Noblet who has fallen deeply in love with the latter.
After some hours of frightful agony, Henrietta of England expired while Bossuet was reciting the last exhortations.
Before the frightful results of this desperate action, Mr Pancks himself recoiled in consternation.
The frightful language this well-endowed young gentleman now indulged in, half aloud and half in thought, would be quite impossible to put on paper!
Darling, do not tempt me--it is frightful pain, but I must keep my word.
I could not commit the frightful cruelty and dishonor of upsetting his plans, since you are originally to blame for concealing the truth from him, and I am to blame for abetting you.
How brutal it was of Michael to have induced her to stay--even if she remained of her own accord--and then the frightful thoughtless recklessness of letting her go off afterwards just because he was angry!
Just then the whistle came along, mixed up with some frightful oaths that I had heard the engineer use when he first saw the horses.
The boy was subject to frightful headaches, which for the time unfitted him for all study or recitation; and Seabrooke, who was hearing the lesson in progress, had excused him from taking any part in it.
He opened his lips and mouthed horribly, yet his frightful grimacings conveyed no meaning.
She had dreamed of it, just before daylight, and lay in bed stupefied by the horror of it, living, again and again, through each frightful detail.
It was night bereft of benisons, day made frightfulby darkness.
The cattle’s lowing had taken on a gasping, cracked sound that was more frightful than the maddened bellow of the early evening.
She could touch the feet of this frightful thing and feel its human warmth.
By acting in this way he would at least have saved his old friends from a frightful deicide, which he forced them to commit, because they were not able to recognize the God he sent amongst them.
Will it not be the most astonishing of all the miracles of Deity to make the bodies of the damned invulnerable, to resist, through the ceaseless ages of eternity, the frightful torments destined for them?
Will their frightfulpunishments correct their faults?
In recompense for their scrupulous exactness to fulfil these duties, they were permitted to commit the most frightful of crimes.
They terrify the weak minded by frightful ideas which they hold out to them of the Deity.
You have shuddered at the frightful consequences which have resulted from the unreasonable squabbles of the clergy.
And what is the consequence of this double aspect but that the Christians are much more easily terrified at his frightful lineaments than they are recovered from their fears by his aspect of mercy!
To question the faith and reject the authority of the priesthood, have always been the most frightful crimes; they are truly the sin against the Holy Ghost, which can never be forgiven either in this world or in that which is to come.
His apologists end by endeavoring to intimidate us with the frightful and iniquitous punishments that he reserves for those who are so audacious as to murmur.
The Pawnees probably suffered with equal severity; and this was the sum total of the day's frightful carnage--the entire result of all the fierce display that we had witnessed.
At the lower end of the street they got as nearly in line as their inebriated condition would permit, and when the word was given set off toward us with frightful shouts, which made the ponies scamper like so many frightened cats.
He has almost foamed at the mouth whenever Bobby Trench's name has been mentioned, and you know what a frightful fuss he made when I went to Brummels, and when Bobby Trench came here about that Amberley affair.
Her specious reasoning--before she had made the mistake of interrupting it with her insolent cynicism--had made some way with him, and allowed his mind to detach itself ever so little from that frightful picture.
