Even those who have profited of eleven years of desolation, are ready to acknowledge that war is not pastime, and that a familiarity with its horrours does not lessen them.
But guilt has always its horrours and solicitudes; and to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those, to whom nothing could give influence or weight, but their power of betraying.
At her approach the frightful spectre who had before tormented me, vanished away, and with her all the horrours she had caused.
So far from the horrours of despair is the condition even of the guilty.
AEneas properly comforts his companions, when, after the horrours of a storm, they have landed on an unknown and desolate country, with the hope that their miseries will be at some distant time recounted with delight.
Were I a Father, I should take a particular Care to preserve my Children from these little Horrours of Imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in Years.
Men of the best Sense have been touched, more or less, with these groundless Horrours and Presages of Futurity, upon surveying the most indifferent Works of Nature.
In the afternoon the gentlewoman talked violently against the Roman Catholicks, and of the horrours of the Inquisition.
It represented to her all the blighting horrours of calumny, in being known to place her confidence in Lord Melbury, while forced to exact that he himself should guard her secret.
You must clear this terrific obscurity, that threatens to involve me, once more, in the horrours of excruciating suspense!
That passion which is peculiar to rational nature, the anguish arising from the consciousness of transgression, and the horrours attending the sense of the divine displeasure, are very justly described and forcibly impressed.
He had made Phocyas apostatize from his religion; after which the abhorrence of Eudocia would have been reasonable, his misery would have been just, and the horrours of his repentance exemplary.
The husband and the lover, though of more dignity than the castor, are images too domestick to mingle properly with the horrours of war.
This clause does not, therefore, savour in the least of any thing more arbitrary than what has already been experienced: so that the horrours the anti-federal junto pretend to anticipate on that head, must sink into nothing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horrours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
