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This was a region of eternal ice and a bitter wind blew on them, so cold and dreadful that Dante was half dead from it and it seemed that his numbed senses could not support life any longer. The wind, he saw, was caused by the bat-like wings of Satan himself a gigantic and hairy monster, with only the upper half of his body protruding from the icy pit in which he stood.
'0h! I hope there's no gossip or nonsense about that, cried Kalliope, her cheeks flaming. 'Only 'Not Maura? Naughty little girl, I did not think she knew anything. Not that there is anything to tell, said Kalliope, much distressed; 'but it is dreadful that there should be such talk. 'I thought it was that you meant when you said you wanted advice.
Over her the scorching vertigo swept, subsided, rose, and swept again. Oh, the horror of it! the shame, the agonised surprise. What was this dreadful thing that, for the second time, she had unwittingly done? And this time it was so much more terrible. How could such an accident have happened to her? How could she face her own soul in the disgrace of it?
She looked straight at Mr. John Mangam as she spoke. "I don't call him good-looking at all," said the old woman; "dreadful white-livered." Sarah said nothing at all, but the face of the man, Hyacinthus Ware, was before her eyes still, as beautiful and grand as the face of a god. "Never heerd such a name, either," said the old woman. "His mother was dreadful flowery. She had some outlandish blood.
At the same instant, the cabin, with a dreadful crash, broke in upon us, and planks and beams threatened to bury us in ruins. The master, however, soon recovered himself; he left me to go again upon deck, and I saw him no more.
Moreover, my thoughts about slavery were governed by my associations with the word slave, in its worst sense. This is wholly wrong, and it is the source of most of our mistakes on this subject. Dreadful things happen here to some of the slaves in the hands of passionate men.
After all, she was my daughter." "Yes," said Francesca, gravely. "She was your daughter. She was very unhappy with Paul Griggs, and she found out very soon that she had made a dreadful mistake. She loved her husband, after all." "Like a woman!" interjected Lord Redin, half unconsciously. Francesca paid no attention to the remark, except, perhaps, that she raised her eyebrows a little.
At this moment Sophie entered bringing wine, and I saw Bourgonef slowly turn his eyes upon her with a look which then was mysterious to me, but which now spoke too plainly its dreadful meaning. What is there in a look, you will say? Perhaps nothing; or it may be everything.
In the dreadful time of the Black Death which came as a scourge on all the world, and chiefly on Italy, in the past century, the lady to whom he had vowed the deepest and purest devotion, appeared to him in a dream one fair spring morning as an angel of Heaven.
It's really a shame so dainty as she is too, in every way. Ah, it ought to have been in my young days, I can tell you!" "You are still young enough, Uncle Jorgen!" laughed Master Andres. "Well, a man could almost bring himself to it when he considers what a dreadful injustice is going on under his own eyes.
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