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Why do you smirch it all with these horrid remarks?" "I won't make any more, if you don't like them," said Georgina, unabashed "except just to say this, Cynthia for the first time I begin to believe in your chance. There was always something not cleared up about Philip, and it might have turned out to be something past mending. Now it is cleared up; and it's bad but it might have been worse.
Our situation was extremely doubtful, and the noise and horrid riots were at times so boisterous, that frequently we could not, though so near them, distinguish a word the King and Queen said; and yet, whenever the leaders of these organized ruffians spoke or threatened, the most respectful stillness instantly prevailed. "I weep in silence for misfortunes, which I fear are inevitable!
"It isn't nice for you to come down to where I live. It's such a horrid part." "Just as you like," he answered. "I'd be very glad to fetch you if you prefer it, but it would give me more time if you came. Shall we say seven o'clock? I've written the address down on this card so that you can make no mistake." She laughed gayly.
The punishment we had inflicted was severe, but not more than the crime of their horrid piracies deserved. A few heads were brought away by our Dyak followers, as trophies; but there was no unnecessary sacrifice of life, and I do not believe there was a woman or child hurt. The destruction of these places astonished the whole country beyond description.
"I was making signs to you the whole time, not to let him go unless he would take me with him, and he won't. He has been horrid about it." "My dear Marian, you could not possibly go, with the hot weather coming on!" cried her mother, aghast. "Nor in any weather whatever," said Sir Arthur firmly. "Your signals were lost on me, Marian, but nothing would induce me to consent to your going to Agpur.
How Satan raged at the tidings of Christ's nativity! what blood he caused to be shed on purpose to have murdered Christ in His infancy! The evangelist St. Matthew witnesses that in all the coasts and borders of Bethlehem the children of two years old and less age were murdered without mercy. A fearful spectacle and horrid example of insolent and unaccustomed tyranny!
"I mustn't take so much vinegar," thought the little girl; "but I do hope that being so ill, and taking the horrid medicine, and being scolded by the nurse will have made me a bit pale."
They also encouraged that frightful inquisition, the very name of which conjures up the most horrid images of death and torture. This institution, committed to the care of Dominican monks, was instituted to put down heresy; that is, every thing in poetry, philosophy, or religion, which was distasteful to the despots of the human mind.
"How's the leg?" and Marielihou with a final volley disappeared among the bushes, and Johnnie crawled after her. "What on earth does he mean?" whispered Meg. "Mr. Hamon has an idea that Marielihou and old Mme. Vautrin have something in common. In fact I believe he goes so far as to say that they are one and the same. Black magic, you know, witchcraft, and all that kind of thing." "How horrid!"
"Those two men," she said, lowering her voice and speaking in her natural manner: "as we were coming down to the bridge they pushed up their goggles, and their faces were beastly just as if they meant," she whispered, "to kill somebody." Dick nodded. "And then the men behind began cheering, and those two horrid faces grew quite silly and good-natured.
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