The story of the ghastly horrors perpetrated on their countrymen doubtless hastened their decision, and the treaty was ratified both by the States General and by the Council of State.
This ghastly spectacle was so placed that it could be seen from the ships entering and leaving the harbour.
The bull was brought to bay directly under our box, and twice I saw the iron pass between his horns, enter the back of his neck with a dull, grating sound, and come out bloody, leaving a ghastly wound.
Yesterday I walked on Broadway a little while, but the people all looked like ghastly phantoms to me.
She thought of the monotonous years awaiting her, homeless and alone as she was; of the ghastly emptiness of every pleasure, if she no more saw his face, no more heard his voice.
In a few hours, swiftly, noiselessly, with no repulsive or ghastly features in the process, the earthly part of our dear one is reduced to a small heap of snowy ashes.
For those who have witnessed the ghastly spectacle of a modern funeral, no description of that barbarous rite is necessary.
Their personal defects are ridiculed, and the pitiless and ghastly electric light of publicity is turned on their most sacred joys or sorrows.
The hair had fallen from his limbs and his skin was bleached ghastly white by exposure to the elements.
And when they disappeared, the hooting of the owl, and ghastly ‘ha!
A heavy storm was impending; big drops fell in showers from the forest trees as they groaned under the blast, and beneath the gloomy avenue the clayey ground gleamed ghastly white.
Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.
One after one, by the star-dogged Moon Too quick for groan or sigh, Each turned his face with a ghastly pang, And cursed me with his eye.
Her color changed from white to red and back again to ghastly pallor, her voice faltered and broke piteously, but still the terrible inquiry proceeded.
Mechanically she glanced at her reflection in the mirror; white, distraught, with startled eyes--a ghastly parody of the brilliant vision which had smiled back at her only a few minutes before.
Her skin had faded to a duller, more ghastly tint than ever, but a bright spot of red burned in either cheek.
The day had been fraught with a ghastly excitement that seemed to give for the moment to these poor crushed beings a fictitious importance.
The few gleams of Paradise for the saved are pale in comparison with the ghastly terrors.
The belief in a hell of endless suffering was the parent of a monstrous and ghastly brood of imaginations.
Francis, however, was quite certain that the attempt would be a ghastly failure.
The scourge of the surf swept them; a woman, a man--even the child, were torn from them and ground on the ghastly teeth of the coral.
But they did their ghastly work, and threw the mutilated boy on a wooden framework above the slow fire where his cries went up, till at last there was silence.
Her countenance became ghastly pale, and her frame was seized with a tremor which she could hardly conceal.
It has a ghastly symbolism of its own--a symbolism of shrouds and corpse-candles, and other funeral horrors.
But neither tiger nor cobra was visible--nothing but Cameron pointing with ghastly haggard face and starting eyeballs at something we could not see.
I am glad enough to get beyond the sight of those ghastly corpses.
One man in chains may inspire a youthful Turpins romantic ardour; but we suspect two hundred ghastly corpses would have sickened even Jack Sheppard of his lofty ambition.
A ghastly ceremony I once witnessed at Oumwaidjik is a proof of this.
Frequently we were obliged to pass directly over these ghastly figures of hide, and sometimes, indeed, broke into them.
He shut his eyes on looking down where the heads of his companions had fallen, and instantly his face turned from ghastly paleness to a deep red, and the wire was touched and he was no more.
As he opened the door leading into the sitting-room the fitful gleam of the dying embers cast a ghastly light over the face of a corpse.
With lightning rapidity the boy calculated to a nicety the speed of the doomed mail-plane, and into both their brains flashed the ghastly question as to the sort of spot on to which she was making her plunge.
Beneath the racing plane the black waters of Champlain were whipped into giant rollers, and along their edges white-caps foamed ghastly yellow in the weird light.
Thus, in ghastly contrast to his former splendour of youth and opulence of life, Margrave stood before me.
Come in the night after the battle and look upon the ghastly faces upturned in the moonlight.
He saw whelps of boys scrambling and struggling for some ghastly relic; scavengers and sweeps dressed up in the habits of the Benedictines they had slain.
The moon rose and shone on the glimmering mere and swooning lilies, and streamed in through shattered casements on men sleeping in their blood, on ruin, and the ghastly shape of death.
They stood immovable as the lofty berg loomed far above their heads, close on them, and after hanging a ghastly object over their tiny floe for a moment vanished in the mist while their hearts were yet in their mouths.
Yes, that was the disease that was in my blood, and in my heart, and through whose ghastly medium every living object was beheld.
There was a ghastly but set despair in Montreuil's lofty and proud countenance, which changed gradually to a fiercer aspect, as he met my gaze.
Surprised by the vehemence of the Hermit, I was still more startled by the agonizing and ghastly expression of his face.
Its terrors haunt me at this hour; they people the earth and the air with shapes of ghastly menace!
The Rover faced his companion, and there was a ghastly smile on his speaking features, as he answered-- "He never repeated the offence!
There was much ghastly comicality mingled with the horror in several of the places we visited on those two nights.
Then a group of men came out of the front door, and hats came quickly off when those nearest caught a glimpse of a marble-white face, with long, inky lashes clinging close to ghastly cheeks.
It was only a moment's absence, but the long lashes on the stricken man's ghastly face lifted, the hand went to the wounded breast.
Once in the yellow light of the watery day, she was struck by his ghastly look.
There in the doorway, his face ghastly white, his whole body seeming devoid of strength, leaned Fred Ripley.
