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Take the cylinders and hear them. The first half-dozen of them are personal to me, and they will not horrify you. Then you will know me better. Dinner will by then be ready. In the meantime I shall read over some of these documents, and shall be better able to understand certain things." He carried the phonograph himself up to my sitting room and adjusted it for me.
General de G remarked: "Yes, these things are affecting, but they are not horrible. "Horrible, that well-known word, means much more than terrible. A frightful accident like this affects, upsets, terrifies; it does not horrify.
He smiled. His good-natured face glowed as if in a light. Then he heard her talking, "Go away. At once. I never want to see you again. I'll die if I see you again." Her hands were in her hair. "Go away. Please.... Oh, God, I can't stand you. You horrify me!" The panic in Rachel's voice seemed to dull his ears to her words.
As a sensitive and chaste woman, gently born, the condition of affairs will horrify you.
There has been no message from the Crown or statement of the Government relative to that annexation. Hon. Members have indeed heard from India that the dresses and wardrobes of the ladies of its Court have been exposed to sale, like a bankrupt's stock, in the haberdashers' shops of Calcutta a thing likely to incense and horrify the people of India who witnessed it.
Meanwhile, two of their number, vile men thrown into prison for former crimes one French, the other Italian had been suborned by Philippe's emissaries to make deadly accusations against their brethren, such as might horrify the imagination of an age unused to consider evidence.
He uses language which, used by any living man, would horrify the religious of the present day, in proportion to the lack of truth in them, just as it horrified his three friends, the honest pharisees of the time, whose religion was 'doctrine' and rebuke. God speaks not a word of rebuke to Job for the freedom of his speech: he has always been seeking such as Job to worship him.
In theory no man or animal should be subject to the power of discretionary punishment on the part of another even his own father or master. I've often wondered what earthly right we have to make the animals work for us to bind them to slavery when we denounce slavery as a crime. It would horrify us to see a human being put up and sold at auction.
As he came nearer, he had a hideous suspicion, which soon became a certainty, that the entertainment was at his own house; worse still, it was of a kind and on a scale calculated to shock and horrify any prudent householder and father of a family.
And this maze of dungeon tunnels where could such a thing exist, so perfectly outfitted to horrify him, so neatly fitting into his own pattern of childhood fears and terrors; from where could such a very individual attack on his sanity have sprung? From nowhere except.... Except from his own mind!
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