Horrour is alwey drede of harm that is to come, and this drede shal evere dwelle in the hertes of hem that been dampned.
And for they shullen have noon hope to escape, seith seint Iob atte laste: that 'ther shal horrour and grisly drede dwellen with-outen ende.
Tis true, the Devil and Death are not Subjects to touch the Delicacy of Readers, but are extreamly proper to move Horrour and Detestation, which are there the Moral of that Divine Poem.
Two Lines of Sir John Denham's, on a like Subject with that of Echard, fills one with Horrourand Amazement.
But the horrour of instigating self-murder conquered every other; even the hard necessity of appearing to act wrong, at the very moment when she was braving every evil, in the belief that she was doing right.
Would you desire those whom you have known and favoured whilst amongst them, gratefully to cherish your remembrance, or to shrink with horrour from its recollection?
Will you only seek relief to your sufferings, by means that must fix indelible horrour on your survivors?
To be the confident of so extraordinary a flight, seemed danger to her safety, while it was horrour to her mind.
How I may bear an abrupt answer I know not, but the horrourof uncertainty I experience, and can endure no longer.
If yet, while Pardon may be found, And Mercy may be sought, My Heart with inward Horrour shrinks, And trembles at the Thought; III.
The Reader will easily observe how Milton has kept all the Horrour of this Image, without running into the Ridicule of it.
I know not any thing more pernicious to good Manners, than the giving fair Names to foul Actions; for this confounds Vice and Virtue, and takes off that natural Horrour we have to Evil.
Now a Subject is improper for Ridicule, if it is apt to stir up Horrour and Commiseration rather than Laughter.
These Descriptions raise a pleasing kind of Horrour in the Mind of the Reader, and amuse his Imagination with the Strangeness and Novelty of the Persons who are represented in them.
Tully speaks of this Custom with less Horrour than one would expect, though he confesses it was much abused in his Time, and seems directly to approve of it under its first Regulations, when Criminals only fought before the People.
Whether to take horrour from the time means not rather to catch it as communicated, than to deprive the time of horrour, deserves te be considered.
And not be strooke with horrour of thy shame To th' very heart?
You that feele The horrour of fowle guilt in your falce bosom Confes yourself soe; my strong Inocence To the death stands constant.
Life, made memorable by crimes, and diversified through its several periods by wickedness, is indeed easily reviewed, but reviewed only with horrour and remorse.
Milton has judiciously represented the father of mankind, as seized with horrour and astonishment at the sight of death, exhibited to him on the mount of vision.
As he approached, she thought that his air was familiar to her; she regarded him more earnestly as he drew nearer; what, then, was her horrour to recognize the pilot!
The horrour of that moment Juliet attempted not to describe; nor could she recur to it, without sighs and emotions that, for a while, stopt her narration.
But she besought Sir Jaspar to take her any whither rather than to Salisbury, where she had had the horrour of being examined by the advertisement.
The commissary, however, returned not; and the mayor, to whom my title of horrour was a title of respect, paid me attentions of every sort.
The conflict between horrour and tenderness was too violent, and, as she encircled me, with tortured pity, in her arms, I sunk senseless at her feet.
But horrour and distress have pursued me with such accumulating severity, that the shock is still nearly overpowering.
He shewed in the chapel at Rasay his horrour at dead men's bones.
Can any thing sound sweetly in mine ears, Where all the noise of bloody horrour is?
Silently, for some seconds, they sunk on the breast of each other; horrour closing all speech, drying up even their tears.
Horrour now conquered her, and she solemnly promised to ask whatever he dictated.
Horrour crept through every vein of Camilla, in the explanation she awaited of this fearful mystery.
With whathorrour have we missed--with what agony sought you!
With nearly breathless interest, he listened to the detail of her transactions with Sir Sedley Clarendel, with pity to her debts, and with horrour to her difficulties.
Again, however, and more distinctly, it reached her; doubt then ceased, and terrour next to horrourtook its place.
But as the horrour nearly intolerable of this first abrupt blow gave way, the desire of flying instantly to her Father was the symptom of restored recollection.
With horrour thus accumulate, she now sunk upon the floor, inwardly exclaiming: He is murdered indeed!
But what, upon descending from the chaise, was the horrour of her first news!
Here ended the little interval of horrour in Camilla.
But sith sad earth so farre as they have gone They still descrie, eas’ly they do inferre Without all check of reason, were they down Never so deep, like substance would appear, Ne dream of any hollowhorrour there.
What mortall wit may dare t’ areed Heavens counsels in eternall horrour hid?
Ah God, what horrour and tormenting griefe My hart, my hands, mine eyes, and all assayd?
That cruell word her tender hart so thrild, 2 That suddein cold did runne through euery vaine, And stony horrour all her sences fild 4 With dying fit, that downe she fell for paine.
She laughed, yet wore a face of horrour at this idea; and spoke no more till Mrs Golding returned, with intelligence that Mr Harleigh was waiting in the parlour.
Lord Melbury, abruptly breaking from Mr Giles, hurried out of the room; which alone prevented the same action from Juliet, whose face suddenly exhibited horrour rather than affright.
A new horrour seized the people; they made room for the huge form; all moved out of his way.
These twenty years past she has been longing to die, but still lives, an object of horrour to herself, and of pleasure to nobody.
When after this I wisht to pursue my inquiries beneath the light of truth, horrour itself met me in the very spot where but now, like a scene-painting, my rapture had been standing.
The music of the mass now gusht and rolled in fuller symphonies; the muffled form disentangled itself slowly from its veils; the face became free; and those who were nearest with horrour recognized the dead Crescentia.
But he, pierced through and through with fear and horrour and joy and amazement and the deepest pity, knew not whether to fly from her, to embrace her, to cast himself at her feet, or to melt away in tears and die.
Whenever men, thus he mused to himself, give themselves up to dark phantoms, and make caprices and extravagancies the main stock of their life, mishap and horrour will spring up of their own accord under their feet.
He shewed in the chapel at Rasay[879] his horrour at dead men's bones.
The sadde old Man was silent--I arose, And felt great Grief andHorrour in my Breste.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horrour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
