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After an experience extending over forty years, I may declare that I never saw any such disreputable and horrifying spectacle." So the Lezzard family withdrew and, on the following day, Mrs. Coomstock passed through most painful experiences. To the clergyman, with many sighs and tears, she explained that Mr. Lezzard's character had been maligned by Mr.
The lower jaw was thin what can I call it? shallow, like a beast's; teeth showed behind the black lips; there was no nose; the eyes, of a fiery yellow, against which the pupils showed black and intense, and the exulting hate and thirst to destroy life which shone there, were the most horrifying feature in the whole vision.
"At the risk of horrifying you, my dear," he added, with a slight laugh, "I will confide to you that my best chance of a popular success would be to have my book denounced by the press." "Denounced?" gasped Mrs. Fetherel. "On what ground?" "On the ground of immorality." The Bishop evaded her startled gaze.
This is called the "kisi." These unique and horrifying snake dances of the Moki have been described so often that I need not speak of this performance in detail. Before it was half over the girls wished they were back in their automobile; but the Major whispered that for them to leave would cause great offense to the Indians and might result in trouble.
"Suppose he can swim?" muttered Roden, uneasily. And they waited in a breathless silence. There was something horrifying in the single splash, and then the stillness. "Gad!" whispered Cornish. "Where is he?" Roden struck a match, and held it inside his hat so as to form a sort of lantern, though the air was still enough.
As soon as I caught sight of this group of assassins, I instructed Colonel Schneit of the 24th to combine with my regiment to form a vast semi-circle round them, and then sounded the charge.... The result was horrifying! The bandits, taken by surprise, put up very little resistance and there ensued a massacre, for no quarter was given.
Samuel Peters, a Tory refugee in London, who took delight in horrifying our British cousins with tales of wholesale tarring and feathering done by the patriots of the Revolution. In point of strict veracity Dr.
To Momaya, the jungle was inhabited by far more terrifying things than lions and leopards horrifying, nameless things which possessed the power of wreaking frightful harm under various innocent guises.
What was the good of horrifying the girl by telling her that her deceased relative was to all intents and purposes a murderess? She resolved to let the secret of old Lovisa's life remain buried with her. Therefore she simply answered "Her mind wandered greatly, it was difficult to hear her last words. But it should satisfy you, Britta, to know that she passed away in the fear of the Lord."
All things proclaim this Sansara; more than all else, the world of mankind; in which, from a moral point of view, villainy and baseness, and from an intellectual point of view, incapacity and stupidity, prevail to a horrifying extent.
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