I was delighted at this transformation of France, from the horridform of popular domination to the showy supremacy of soldiership.
A long pause--I, banished all the while to the horrid sofa, and very fidgety of course.
They read like such dearhorrid old places, that I was quite delighted when Miss Grainger said to me the other day, 'Digby, we are going to uncle Thornton's!
I never thought much of her, but I didn't believe she'd have done such a horrid thing as this.
I think it's horrid of you to run away from me for a whole afternoon and then speak to me like this!
Perhaps an opportunity may come some day, and in the meantime, however horrid she is to me, I won't say anything disagreeable back.
It seems so horrid when everything and everybody are strange.
He must be a horrid sort of man," Isobel said indignantly.
We have everything so nice here, it will be horridhaving to leave it all.
A few days later, when Jim was making enquiries about the man, he found out that the horrid creature had actually impersonated you at two or three hotels, and run up bills in your name.
Oh, I suppose all the horridthings about him must be true, because the news wouldn't have come the way it did, if they weren't.
When the foul beasts saw Ulysses they set up a horrid chorus of grunting, and he raged to see his valiant friends so degraded.
They had just time to leap aside when the giant rose in horrid agony.
Then in mad fear and riotous despair they fell upon the horrid meal with eager, tremulous hands.
And indeed Sendlingen every morning sighed with relief, when the moment of horrid suspense had gone by, when he had looked through the Vienna mail and found nothing.
Zebedee went off laughing to seek his lowly cot in the vacant apartment and we were soon asleep, but the last thing Tweedles said was: "Horrid old Mabel Binks!
Perhaps after our delicious time out is over, and our surprise is come to an end, we may talk to Fanchon about her horrid meanness in keeping the bangle a secret.
It's really a horrid thing to have happening in this house, but a guinea and a half each isn't to be despised, is it, Mademoiselle?
You'll know what it is to be stuffy and hot, and to have horrid food, and you'll see our miserable attic bedroom where we sleep all four together.
This will be a horrid piece of work, but where's the good of sacrificing yourself for nothing?
Dear papa will be vexed if we tell him that we have spent half our time in this poky, horrid room.
It was a horrid business: over three hundred thousand dollars were gone, and of course most of it had belonged to widows and orphans.
The lady who suggested that of course I ought to go and hear Mrs. Amyot, was not very clear about anything except that she was perfectly lovely, and had had a horrid husband, and was doing it to support her boy.
Amid pestilential10 winds and in scalding water, And in the shadow of a black smoke, Not cool, and horrid to behold.
God knoweth what ye have wrought: Enter ye therefore the gates of Hell to remain therein for ever: and horrid the abiding place of the haughty ones!
And for those who believe not in their Lord is the torment of Hell; and horrid the journey thither!
What a capital time to go abroad," said Alice, "just when everything is becoming horrid in England!
He called me the most horrid names, and--" "Tore his hair?
It's a horrid expression, but I suppose it meant acting the part of a gentleman, didn't it?
The play continued till twelve at night; and then up, and a most horrid cold night it was, and frosty, and moonshine.
We were full in discourse of the sad state of our times, and the horridshame brought on the King's service by the just clamours of the poor seamen, and that we must be undone in a little time.
The churches, houses, and all on fire and flaming at once; and a horridnoise the flames made, and the cracking of houses at their ruins.
There is one without the walls, in the French Concession, where all the instruments of torture, the devilish devices of heathen cruelty, are to be seen, a horrid spectacle.
He might do it on the door-step, and then think of the horrid mess!
And you most certainly are not kind, for that is the third time you have all but run that horrid umbrella into my left eye.
You would call me anything when you get into one of those horrid passions.
But later, when I became horrid and tormented her, he began to come oftener to our house.
How can you expect it, after all his horrid goings-on--after he swore it should not happen again, and that if it did he would renounce all rights as a husband and set her perfectly free?
I didn't want to leave him in that horridpool of blood.
Why, yes; it looked so horrid to see him lying there--and he had always been so good to me.
In this condition, they saw many of the heads of their countrymen presented to the conqueror;—some of them by English officers, who were compelled to perform that horrid task!
