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Updated: June 14, 2025
The king stood staring up in speechless amazement, and trembled so that his beard shook like grass in the wind. At last, turning to the queen, who was just as horror-struck as himself, he said, gasping, staring, and stammering, "She can't be ours, queen!" Now the queen was much cleverer than the king, and had begun already to suspect that "this effect defective came by cause."
"Snuffling noise?" repeated the horror-struck mate. "Yes; you've got an unpleasant habit of snuffling," said the doctor; "it sometimes. I worries me meant to speak to you about it before. You mustn't do it here. If you want to snuffle, go and snuffle on deck." The frenzied outburst of the mate was interrupted by the skipper. "Don't make that noise in my cabin, Mr. Mackenzie," he said, severely.
A tolerably large sum. I regret that I have not been able to earn it. 'Do you mean to tell me, asked Racksole, horror-struck by this calm confession, in spite of his previous knowledge, 'that you were offered a hundred thousand pounds to poison Prince Eugen? 'You put it rather crudely, said Jules in reply.
A long procession of lights issuing from the fort was seen to flit across the black face of the waters, in the dead of night, and the whole of the city wall, between the Cow-gate and the Tower of Burgundy, fell with a loud crash. The horror-struck citizens thought that the Spaniards were upon them at last; the Spaniards imagined the noise to indicate, a desperate sortie of the citizens.
Ann was far less horror-struck at the fearful sum of the ransom than we had been, by reason that she was ever possessed by the assurance that Heaven had created her and Herdegen for each other, and would bring them together at last. Moreover she had good cause to build her hopes on my grand-uncle's help.
The town was crowded with strangers from all parts to witness the execution of these villains. Men of the present day would be horror-struck at the number of executions that took place at that time in England. The various prisoners in the Tower were all removed to the new gaol, or French prison, as it was called, on the French being released from custody, at the peace of 1812.
"Oh, my God, my God, what shall I do!" she cried aloud clasping her hands suddenly over her face and rocking herself to and fro. The vicar was horror-struck; he could hardly believe his ears, and believing them his senses swam. In his wildest dreams and the good man's dreams were rarely wild he had never thought that such things could come near him.
I assured them I was a sort of Christian; but they would not hear of it appealing to my own words, "Do not your padres, your very bishops, marry?" The absurdity of a bishop having a wife particularly struck them: they scarcely knew whether to be most amused or horror-struck at such an enormity. 6th. We proceeded due south, and slept at Rancagua.
The mother was about to inform him of the son's having gone to the mountains, when the latter returned, breathless, pale, and horror-struck. Rody eyed him keenly, and laid down the bit he was conveying to his mouth. "Heavens above us!" exclaimed his mother, "what ails you?" He only replied by dashing his hat upon the ground, and exclaiming, "Up wid yez! up wid yez! quit your dinners!
It seemed like an angel's gift in his hour of direst need, and with a heart full of comfort he hastened back to the lodgings, calling on his way at a cookshop and spending sixpence of his treasure on some bread and meat for his patient. He was horror-struck to notice the change even a few hours had wrought on the sufferer. There was no mistaking his ailment now.
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