It is absolutely shocking to perceive how immortal genius is in the power of mortal stupidity!
For such a person to lose his money is to suffer the most shocking reverse, and fall from heaven to hell, from all to nothing, in a breath.
He made a shocking gesture in the air with his raised right hand, and put out his tongue and threw his head on one side, so as to counterfeit the appearance of one who has been hanged.
The first speaker laughed, and the sound of his merriment was shocking to the listeners on the other side.
To see two gentlemen of his acquaintance thus brutally mauling each other was deeply shocking to Harry.
To me this nugget of bright crystal is as loathsome as though it were crawling with the worms of death; it is as shocking as though it were compacted out of innocent blood.
I have never had so shocking a surprise in all my days.
But the weather was cool, and the trunk still managed to contain his shocking secret.
It exhibits to our view a disposition to fritter away the enormities of the British Government, and a determination to justify them in every act of barbarity, however unjustifiable in its circumstances, or however shocking in its operation.
But some such shocking story is told of almost every town in England that has an old castle, an old tower, or an old cathedral.
This shocking deed was perpetrated by the officers of General Wolfe's army, and published by one of his captains, under the sanction of Lord Amherst!
From all which it appears that nothing further can now be done relative to this shocking transaction.
Where, among the white people of the United States, can we find such shockingbarbarities as we hear from the common people of Scotland?
The night following the shockingmassacre was spent in deep disquietude.
Perhaps the worst feature of the story against Joash might have been susceptible of a less shocking colouring.
What made this conduct the more shocking was that their covenant to obey the law had been made in the most solemn manner by "cutting a calf in twain, and passing between the severed halves.
Here we find God, and the Lord and the Spirit associated together in a relation of equality that would be shocking to contemplate if the Spirit were a finite being.
But that would not be as shocking as for you and me to ask the Holy Spirit to come and dwell in our hearts when we have no thought of giving up our impurity, or our selfishness, or our worldliness, or our sin.
It would not be asshocking as it is for us to invite the Holy Spirit to come into our churches when they are full of worldliness and selfishness and contention and envy and pride, and all that is unholy.
Ward said that the learned Brahmin who opened to him these abominations, made several efforts--paused and began again, and then paused again, before he could pronounce the shocking indecencies prescribed by his own shastrus.
See here a shocking awkward creature, That speaks a fool in every feature.
True, flattery is a shocking vice; Yet sure, whene'er the praise is just, One may commend without disgust.
What a pity there is insanity in the family--insanity is such a very shocking thing.
It was a most shocking affair, and as interesting as any novel you ever read," said Trixy, with the greatest relish.
The sights were extremely disagreeable, many of them shocking beyond all I ever thought could be.
The Parus hudsonicus is very abundant; so is the Pine Grosbeak, but in a shocking state of moult.
Is it not shocking that while in England all is hospitality within, all is so different without?
I arrived here this morning at seven o'clock, and I assure thee, my Lucy, that I and all my companions were pleased to get rid of the diligence, and the shocking dust that tormented us during our whole journey.
Useless for solemn experts to point out that he had simply been larking for the gallery, and that the result was a shocking fluke--Callear's reputation was established.
Still more shockingnews was on its way home from India.
Ker's domination in the king's council lasted about three years, and was ended by a shocking crime, which did more to lower the court and the king in the eyes of the people than anything which had yet occurred since James's accession.
We find Pitt abolishing the shocking scandals of public executions at Tyburn, supporting measures for the abolition of the Slave Trade, repealing most of the ancient legislation against Romanists, and opening the bar and the army to them.
Yet even these shocking neglects or oversights were not the worst.
I determined to conceal my knowledge of their conversation from them; and really, looking at the clear open countenance of the boy, it was difficult to believe that he knew any thing of so shocking a kind.
To eliminate the ingredient of malice or, and it is the same thing, to say that a criticism need not be honest might lead to shocking consequences.
On the 5th November the ministers came to Hampton Court with the shocking admissions which they had extracted from the persons examined.
Perhaps it has been reserved for a native Indian novelist to jog the elbow of so-called British jurisprudence, and call its attention to such a shocking scandal.
Pray give me an instance of a victim to this shocking conduct.
I call it shocking bad taste, her coming up to town and flirting and flaunting about under poor John's nose--heartless coquette!
This state of things is not only greatly injurious to the business of the country, but shocking to all sincere advocates of law and order, and to humanity itself.
And now, at the end of an unparalleled war to abase State Rights, we are asked to naturalize in the Constitution a new provision confirming to the States an odious pretension, shocking to the moral sense.
It's their normal condition and I don't really think that our papers ought to print such shocking things.
But bless you, the world moves, and anyhow there's no fun for me likeshocking Kitty Alec.
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