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Maisie freely figured it as provisionally jocular in tone, even though to herself on this occasion Sir Claude turned a graver face than he had shown in any crisis but that of putting her into the cab when she had been horrid to him after her parting with the Captain.
I remembered the glove, and the thought of it was more delicious than a breakfast of Cornish cream and honey; although, of course, lurking in the background of my mind was the horrid idea that he might have accidentally picked the thing up to use as a bookmark.
By April 10th they arrived "where the river emerges from these horrid mountains, which so cage it up as to deprive all human beings of the ability to descend to its banks and make use of its waters. No mortal has the power of describing the pleasure I felt when I could once more reach the banks of the river."
For two whole days I did not go near The Mere. On the third day I went up, hoping that the horrid Colonel would be gone. It was beginning to snow when I left The Shallows at about two o’clock in the afternoon, and Mrs. Balk foretold a heavy storm, and bade me not be late returning. The black winter darkness in the sky deepened as I approached The Mere. I was ushered again into the billiard-room.
Very soon, there'll be no one to keep the house warm, except the old man." "You mustn't call yourself old. You're not even respectably middle-aged. But what do you want to talk to me about?" "Money, my dear, money." "Money! Oh, dear! no nothing so horrid. This is a red-letter day for me; and, when you talk about money, it turns everything gray."
"It always vexes me," Elisabeth said thoughtfully, "to read about tournaments, because I think it was so horrid of the Queen of Beauty to give the prize to the knight who won." Christopher laughed with masculine scorn. "What nonsense! Who else could she have given it to?" "Why, to the knight who lost, of course.
When Thaddeus recovered from the reverie into which he fell on the departure of Mr. Somerset, he considered how he might remove out of a country in which he had only met with and occasioned distress. The horrid price that Pembroke's father had set on the continuance of his son's friendship with a powerless exile was his curse.
'I do not quite see how I can do that, Leucha. The Summer Parlour is for the use of all, and why should my Scots lassies be excluded? I am sure, notwithstanding your remarks, Leucha, the children you speak of are both good and well-bred. 'That horrid creature they call Hollyhock isn't well-bred, said Leucha. 'She is a magnificent child, said Mrs Macintyre.
Solander, Tupia, and some others, landed on the 16th, they met with an Indian family, among whom they found horrid and indisputable proofs of the custom of eating human flesh. Not to resume so disagreeable a subject, it may here be observed once for all, that evidences of the same custom appeared on various occasions. On the next day a delightful object engaged the attention of our voyagers.
In turn, the men of the Fifth and Second corps would charge upon their adversaries, and in turn they too would be forced to seek shelter behind their rifle pits. Thus the tide of battle along the right of the line rolled to and fro, while the horrid din of musketry and artillery rose and swelled as the storm grew fiercer.
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