I would catch sight of it from time to time with a distinct feeling of satisfaction till, one day, I perceived with horror that there were two old pens in there.
CV Have a holy horror of useless impasto, which gets sticky and dull, turns blue and heavy.
Though gloom and desolation would deepen the effects of a distressing incident in real life, such accompaniments are not necessary to make us feel a thrill of horror or awaken the keenest sympathy.
When the animal is irritated, the colors of the iris become like flame, to the horror of the fishermen who behold them.
The shake annihilated fear, and allowed no sense of horror in looking round at the beast.
When the diver is eagerly engaged with his work, he sees suddenly a great shadow fall on the bottom of the sea and he immediately recognizes with horror the spindle-shaped body of the Man-eating Shark.
Who would not have pitied Lovell, when, livid with horror and conscious guilt, he vainly tried to say something?
The crime of Judas is invested with a horror altogether its own by the fact that this Person whom he betrayed was the Son of God and the Saviour of the world, the Best-beloved of God and every man's Friend.
It must have fallen upon their ears like a thunder-clap; they must have fallen back on their seats or started from them in horror when so awful a claim was made by the human figure standing bound before them.
Sir Walter says that "the feeling of superstitious awe annexed to the catastrophe could not have been improved by any circumstances of additional horror which a poet could have invented.
We all looked at each other, and there was dawning consciousness and horror in every eye.
The horror of all that we had been through so recently rolled over me like a flood.
All this horror was sinking--sinking into the table, it seemed.
He thanked heaven for that, with a gasp of horror at the thought of the crowning ridicule he had escaped.
Edith was fastidious and sensitive, with all the horror of a girl who had never seen anything like domestic contention or the jars of family life.
She was chilly by nature, and she never had got over her horror of these additional chillinesses.
I tell you of a thing which is wickedness, which is a horror to think of, and you speak of asking people to dinner!
The usual methods were taken to recover me, and I awoke in bed the next morning, remembering nothing but the horror I felt when I first found myself unable to cry out for assistance.
There is something in the word, in the very thought, that strikes a horror to my soul; something that sets every fiber of feeling within me to crying out in vengeance against them.
I would therefore recommend you to reserve your look of horror and indignation for more modern calamities.
He sat motionless, his eyes fixed on the corpse, and his attitude and looks expressing horror and affright.
However, the notion fully accounts for the horror the people feel at the idea of killing a Cat.
She had a great longing and a horrorto tear away the filmy paper and see Kerr at last brutally revealed.
Oh, to escape out of this window into the innocent, sleeping city, away from the horror at her back!
So suddenly, and in murder and horror unsurpassed, he was taken from us.
Women wept, shrieked and fainted; men raved and swore, and horror was depicted on every face.
The thought of hanging men in cold blood, even though the rebels should murder a few of the colored prisoners, was a horror from which he shrank.
Perrotte had a horrorof bouillon: ``Ah--these vegetable soups!
VI Having made you sup on horror a la Bretonne, or Continental fashion, I am now to give you a savoury from England.
The horror and distress of the old lady's friends that Sunday afternoon may better be imagined than described.
The child had a horror of the servant, because she was dirty and took snuff.
The editor of Pitcairn's Trials remarks in a footnote to the dittay that ``the quaintness of the ancient style even aggravates the horror of the scene.
I have no very great sympathy with the desire of the Prussians to march through Paris; and I have no great sympathy with the horror which is felt by the Parisians at their intention to do so.
The Salle is a sort of barn, and the sans culottes themselves, notwithstanding their horror of all luxury, hardly found its comforts sufficient for them.
Thais, her heart stirred with horrorand disgust at all she had seen and heard that night, and feeling the indifference and brutality, the malicious jealousy of women, the heavy weight of useless hours, sighed.
At these words Paphnutius, white with horror and his face bedewed with the sweat of agony made the sign of the cross, but maintained a sublime silence.
Such a vision I had just now, and its exceptional horror moved me as you have seen.
As he spoke of that volley of musketry I glanced across with a shudder at Beauchamp, and the look of stony horror on that handsome sceptic's face was not to be forgotten.
Flaubert is the author of a good book, a book which aims at the excitation of virtue by arousing a horror of vice.
Is there not, on the contrary, a horror of vice that this "something dreary glides in between them to separate them?
Flaubert is not only a great artist but a man of heart, for having in the last six pages turned all the horror and scorn upon the woman and all the interest towards the husband.
Horror pursues them; anguish has found them: Destruction is nigh!
And now the wild inhabitants of the broad savanna came rushing on, and joined the furious flight, adding difficulty and confusion to the horror of the scene.
The horror and indignation of the severe Puritans of New Plymouth at this outbreak of licentiousness, was great indeed.
It was during one of these awful exhibitions of heathen cruelty and superstition, that Henrich one evening drew nigh to the lodge of Terah, accompanied by Oriana; and paused at the open entrance, in amazement and horror at the scene he beheld.
Lady Caroom was white to the lips, and in her eyes the horror of that story so pitilessly told seemed still to linger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horror" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
