| 单词 | ghastliness |
| 例句 | For my seventeen-year-old brother, romance was an entirely new experience and a wonderful diversion from the ghastliness of ghetto life. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Germaine Greer denouncing the ghastliness of it all in the Observer, while Dominic Mohan encouraged Sun readers to "grab a beer and pull up a seat" in the event of penetration. Charlie Brooker's 10 years of watching Big Brother 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z When I’ve mentioned my unease to friends and colleagues, they were quick to certify the ghastliness of the job interview process, and offered their own experiences. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Imagine an awful job interview. Now picture it conducted by Russian bots. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z It's the same ghastliness as last time, and the time before that. TV review: Gary Barlow – On Her Majesty's Service; The Apprentice: The Final 2012-06-03T19:30:01Z Amid the gloom about today’s America, Mr Perlstein offers vivid reminders of the ghastliness of that time, when violence, scandals and failure buffeted the country as rarely before. Purpose and worth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In England, even in the depths of its unelectable ghastliness, I don't remember seeing a poll where they scored under 30%. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z And whereas the ghastliness of The Apprentice candidates was once amusing, now it's just boring. TV review: Gary Barlow – On Her Majesty's Service; The Apprentice: The Final 2012-06-03T19:30:01Z Like the proverbial frogs in pots of simmering water, filmgoers have tolerated escalating stakes in cinematic ghastliness at least since 1960, when Alfred Hitchcock created the first slasher film with “Psycho.” ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Play Without Words is Bourne's best work, and its acid pessimism a perfect antidote to the worthy ghastliness of much of the Cultural Olympiad. Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words; Dance GB: The Olympic Project – review 2012-07-14T23:05:34Z But these are gimmicks that result in a ginned-up ghastliness that equates the crisis of endangered kids with the nightmare of a dying phone battery. ‘The Desperate Hour’ Review: An Exercise in Panic 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Yet even with the grimness and ghastliness of war, gestures of hope and kindness are shining brightly for refugees who are crossing the border into these countries. As Ukraine's moms flee to Poland amid war, they're greeted by gifts of baby strollers 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Yet as Kossakovsky reminds us, even as he spares us the ghastliness of the slaughterhouse, we need to look at animals to honestly see what we have done. ‘Gunda’ Review: A Remarkable Pig’s-Eye View of the World 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z He has, after all, made a career out of playing clueless public schoolboys of varying degrees of ghastliness. Jack Whitehall: a class act 2012-10-05T21:59:00Z The ghastliness of this damp and squishy comedy is the byproduct of a confused and earnest sentimentality, a willful devotion to wide-eyed wonder that confuses simplicity with simple-mindedness. Movie Review: ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green,’ Starring Jennifer Garner 2012-08-14T22:10:05Z And actually, I wouldn’t want to see that changed – their ghastliness is the joy of The Apprentice. The Apprentice review – its the end of the line for Lord Sugar 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Shostakovich takes Katerina’s side in this ghastliness, pushing his opera beyond the bounds of theatrical convention to make a point about amoral responses to amorality. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The show, with its visceral ghastliness, is right on time. The Need for Art That Hurts 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Patrick and his kind exert such fascination—in life, and in nine hundred pages and five hours of TV—precisely because their ghastliness is so hard to separate from their humor. Patrick Melrose and the Fall of the English Élite 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Before he bestrode the continent and prefigured the ghastliness of modern European history — religious impulses sublimated in politics — Napoleon Bonaparte was an artillery captain. Opinion | Give Ukraine more artillery, and let the Navy break Russia’s blockade 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s my hope that the ghastliness and profound emptiness of this current political and cultural moment spurs a revival of the importance of character. Charisma trumps character in modern politics | Brigid Delaney's diary 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Military dogs also form deep bonds with their handlers, ones that ultimately help their human partners cope with the ghastliness of war. How War Dogs in Iraq Rekindled a Lost Military Tradition 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z “These royal ceremonies represented decency, tradition, and public duty, in contradiction to the ghastliness of Nazism,” as one historian told me. Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z As if to underscore the ghastliness of inaction, both Zama and his almost-lover have experiences of watching, immobilized, as a large and likely poisonous spider crawls across a sleeping person’s face. A Neglected South American Masterpiece 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Gray’s crimes were ghastly; their ghastliness does not negate or diminish the electric chair’s cruelty. Virigina, don’t revive the electric chair 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z There's the host's miserly hospitality: "I expect you have eaten …" And there's the narrator's own ill-health, adding an extra sheen of ghastliness to everything she beholds. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review – Hilary Mantel's new collection 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Had a moment of horror at the latest bit of tabloid ghastliness on Savile? The week I stopped force-feeding myself news 2012-11-06T13:19:39Z “Time is not on our side given the ghastliness of the fighting, the number of massacres, and horrors of sectarian divisions becoming permanent facts on the ground.” Syria: Death Toll Rising 2012-09-28T08:45:00Z An appalling view in the wild twilight of a winter evening; and as the pink died out, a desolate ghastliness fell upon it. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z But the detail is not trivial, its introduction adds to the ghastliness of the scene. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z But how to save Melian from the unutterable ghastliness of the fate mapped out for her? The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z In his Hunt after the Captain, we realize how near the "dull dead ghastliness of War" came to the fond father's heart as he sought his wounded hero through those dreary hospital wards! Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z On opening his eyes he beholds a dark, gloomy scene, the ghastliness of which is enough to strike horror into the heart of the most callous and indifferent. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z There was something at once commonplace and incredible about it—about the stupid ghastliness of the face and about the horrid, sticky smear in the muss of the finely tucked shirt. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z His voice shook, and his face was pale to ghastliness. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z The ghastliness of the face up there at the window, the fearful, unnatural voice. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Old Wittemberg, the most experienced of the Swedish leaders, saw the whole ghastliness of the position, and laid it plainly before the king. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z The day of judgment was beginning, the reign of horror and ghastliness. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z He had thought of it, and now her suggestion revived the ghastliness of the idea. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z They had put a dressing-gown upon him, but its gay colors only increased the ghastliness of his face, already wasted and worn by fever. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z How wonderfully, in these touches, do we feel love prevailing over horror and purging the apparition of all its charnel ghastliness. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z And you must admit a certain diabolical ghastliness in that painting.” The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z But if you board the car as we did, coming into it awake and fresh from out of doors, while it is yet asleep—then, and then only, do you realize its enormous ghastliness. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The former had a look of ghastliness which gave me an unfavourable idea of the nature of his wound; and the latter sat beside his bed, and seemed at once hopeless and resigned. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z The faces of the landsmen had an added ghastliness from seasickness, but they were all bad enough to look upon,—seamen and soldiers alike. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z Alfred looked up and saw that his brother was pale in the extreme, and with a ghastliness of expression quite alarming. Dilemmas of Pride, (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-01-26T03:00:28.110Z Her bosom was still heaving, her cheeks were white almost to ghastliness, with one little patch of brilliant color where his lips had rested for a moment. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z “They are a totally different type of people,” Sir Nicholas declared in a radio interview, speaking about the relative ghastliness of people in standard-class train cars. Election Looming, Tories Put Posh Foot in Mouth 2010-03-23T01:20:00Z Suddenly he conquered himself, and, with the swiftness of lightning across the water, the fierceness died out of his face, leaving it pale almost to ghastliness in the moonlight. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 Helen Thorndyke had arisen and stood holding by the sofa for support, an awful ghastliness on her face, an awful horror in her eyes. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir With a face blanched to ghastliness by the first sentence, James Girty heard the speaker through—heard and stood dumfounded for a moment. Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind His complexion was pale almost to ghastliness, and in his deep-set, sunken eyes there was more than a suggestion of recklessness. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z The incident did not repel him by its ghastliness, but he saw no way of getting sympathy into it on any side. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. And then— Not altogether unfamiliar with scenes of horrific ghastliness himself, at what he now saw, peering cautiously over a great rock, Harley Greenoak felt his blood run cold and his flesh creep. Harley Greenoak's Charge It was a wonderful sight, terrible in its weird ghastliness—that swarm of deadly serpents held thus spell-bound by the eerie barbaric music. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War It is not our task here to describe the ghastliness of the wounds inflicted, and Walthari's victory at the cost of the loss of a leg. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) The eyes were open, but though cold and dim,320 Fixed with accusing ghastliness on him! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 After he had shaken hands with Mr. Spokesly his arm dropped slackly across his knee once more, leaving the cigarette-stained fingers to make expressive motions emphasizing the ghastliness of the tale he unfolded. Command You know I was never anything but a soft-hearted fool—and now to have upon my soul the responsibility of this ghastliness....” McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 The ghastliness of what she had undertaken to conceal came over her like a chill, insweeping fog. Stories of the Foot-hills See him as night falls, plodding onwards through the crowded thoroughfares of the great city; his lack-lustre eye glazed and filmy; his pale face and blue lip actually corpse-like in their ghastliness. Nuts and Nutcrackers At the foot of his throne was the pale hideous spectre, who, by the ghastliness of his visage, and the nature of the apparitions that surrounded him, discovers himself to be Death. The Tatler, Volume 3 And this scale cannot be expressed by any artifice; the mountain cannot be made to look large by painting it blue or faint, otherwise it loses all its ghastliness. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Thus while in Paris the sight of capital punishment revealed to me all the ghastliness of this superstition of progress. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy The peculiar ghastliness of this Swiss mode of festivity is in its utter failure of joy; the paralysis and helplessness of a vice in which there is neither pleasure, nor art. Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work From extreme left to extreme right the flattened proscenium in front of us glows with the ghastliness of the Broockon. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" Starvation and Despair, two fiends, seemed sitting beside him in shadowy ghastliness, chilling and palsying him—petrifying his heart within him. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. The only ghastliness which this workman is capable of is that of distortion. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) The protest fails; five bodies swinging from the gallows, and a hundred exiles buried in Siberia alive, leave a monument of such failure terrible in its ghastliness even for Russian history. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy It is the trembling of the human soul in the presence of death which most of all disturbs the images on the intellectual mirror, and invests them with the fitfulness and ghastliness of dreams. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) A magnificent display of attitudes and forms, a sort of bravura ghastliness and impressiveness, which are in a sense barrocco, reminding us of the wax plague models of Florence and of certain poems of Baudelaire's. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion Upon the field I stood with Victory, And Death in all its ghastliness—Around The dim watchfires stood like a burning wall Betwixt the dead and living. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems His own face was cruelly drawn, with the first sickened ghastliness still on him. The Missourian Klutz was pale to ghastliness, and his eyes were brimming again with tears. The Benefactress Matt, all the same, felt the ghastliness of being there on the same errand with these agents of his father, and reaching the same facts with them. The Quality of Mercy Attempts were made to repress the facts: but the tragedy of the freighter, Charleston, in all its ghastliness and horror, became known in spite of all attempts at secrecy. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 There is a ghastliness about his labored anatomies of them, as well as a want of specific character. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) I sneaked back into the house to see if the streak hadn't dried yet; but no! it loomed in tell-tale ghastliness, a sort of writing on the wall announcing the wrath and visitation of heaven. Dreamers of the Ghetto As he said this he looked at his companion, and noticed for the first time the ghastliness of her countenance. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend He was pale to ghastliness, and looked years older than when Edith had seen him in the drawing-room a few minutes previous. The Masked Bridal When the ship's discoverers boarded her, their eyes were greeted by a sight whose ghastliness filled them with a numbing horror. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 The speaker struggled bravely, but the ghastliness of such a discussion wore on her nerves, and her face twitched. A Breath of Prairie and other stories His black eyes burned like live coals, his cheeks were pallid almost to ghastliness, the muscles of his face were twitching. The Traitors And from that it grew into a sort of ghastliness, until the machinery of the mind choked and balked and stopped working altogether, like an overloaded motor. The Prairie Child His countenance was white to ghastliness, betraying that he was laboring under great excitement and mental strain. The Masked Bridal It was as much a corpse as that skeleton, and, like it too, it bore a shroud of purple and scarlet, and fine linen and gold, which concealed only in part its ghastliness. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Cossiers seemed to revel in the ghastliness of the scene, but the workmanship was certainly of a very high order. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders The dead body of the man shot while defending the barricade was paraded in blood-stained ghastliness through the streets, exciting frenzied passions. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series It is a typical piece of Renaissance work, florid, intricate, insistent on the ghastliness of death. Highways and Byways in Surrey Mr. Brown's was white almost to ghastliness, and his eyes were burning with a strange light. The New Tenant But its very ghastliness turned his thought into another channel. The Art of Disappearing He had swooned, with his face turned up to the sky, and the ghastliness of death had settled on his strongly marked, handsome features. Macaria The feeble light played on his face, half hiding, half revealing the ghastliness of it; and we, without speech or movement, stood watching him, till the candle sputtering out left us in darkness. My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France As to the ghastliness of things to be seen, they could no doubt be removed out of sight; but even that would be cured by custom. The Fixed Period White though it was, even to ghastliness, it betrayed no sign of blanching or fear, and his dark eyes, from their hollow depths, shone with a clear, steadfast light. The New Tenant Little whooped with delight at the touch of old-time ghastliness. Gold Out of Celebes The ghastliness of the tragedy was not what he thought about at all. The Day of Judgment That his chin was freshly shaven, and his hair brushed, added to the ghastliness. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Her eyes were starting from their sockets, her lips gasping wide, her visage ghastliness itself. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 The ghastliness of the arc-lights, the forbidding whiteness of the walls, and the penetrating odors of the kitchen seemed all brought out by the presence of a man alone. The Daughter of a Magnate But death, besides its own inherent ghastliness, is rendered dreadful through the malice of the devil, and the guilty fear of the penal hereafter which haunts all those who are in his power. The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 The moon had now risen, and in its misty light the upturned faces of the dead lost nothing of ghastliness. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac White—horribly white—as when the moon, that would not set, showed all its ghastliness. Rookwood Another story, which probably has more truth in it, adds a new ghastliness to the circumstances of George's death. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I The truth is that Frank looked like a young horse; he was a dandy without any of the ghastliness which attends the preservation of youth in old beaux of another species. Buying a Horse There is sometimes a dread ghastliness in the thought that out of the abundance of a man's heart his mouth is speaking, though he declares it not. St. Cuthbert's She saw his face change to very ghastliness, and guilt itself could not have trembled more than the shudder which ran through his frame. Agatha's Husband A Novel Another story is of the usual ghastliness relieved by a touch of the comic. Stories Of Ohio The world will be shuddering at the ghastliness of its recent experiences and asking if there is no way of guarding against the possibility of such a catastrophe in the years ahead. Lloyd George The Man and His Story There was no time to waste if she was to be saved from the ghastliness of slow suffocation. The Hippodrome Weeks and months passed on, and still there was a vacant wildness in his eyes, and a mortal ghastliness all over his face, inexpressive of a reasonable soul. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 Contrast this sketch and its thoughtful touching meaning with the hollow ghastliness of Holbein's 'Dance of Death.' The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Her white hands closed their dying eyes and folded the rigid arms, and decked the room of death with flowers that took away half its ghastliness. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel On the lower Mississippi, the Natchez Indians brought it with them from Central America in all its ghastliness. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America Her tears began to fall upon his face, and she saw it through them, ravaged and fearful, with new life struggling under the ghastliness of dissolution. The Emigrant Trail It is made up of loveliness and ghastliness; of harmony and chaos; of agony, joy, life, death. Nature Mysticism It was not a discovery; merely an application of ghastliness which had been considered too horrible for use. My Second Year of the War A young man, tall and slender, but pale to ghastliness, with haggard cheeks and hollow eyes, stood, wrapped in a long cloak, beside the Captain. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel And yet there are considerations which rob death of its ghastliness, and help to reconcile us to it. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country You are weary, and pale almost to ghastliness. Infelice The dead were so pitiable that one quite forgot their ghastliness; but it was a gruesome job searching their pockets. Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years Wild-eyed, with the ghastliness of his pallor showing through the coating of grime and blood, Austin Selwyn stood in the ruins of the house, and the brown tresses of the child fell over his arm. The Parts Men Play The ethereal look that had been her chief claim to beauty had become exaggerated into a ghastliness that was not in the least bewitching. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe It acutely accentuates his already aggressive features and reduces his color to ghastliness. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt It is when the wounded are gathered from the field, and the results of the battle are seen in all their ghastliness. From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa Ghastly as was the purpose of that axe, my imagination saw even new ghastliness in the shape of its huge awkward scythe-like steel; it seemed made for massacre. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Winston was in the larger room next moment, and saw, as a startled girl had evidently done, a face that showed distorted and white to ghastliness through the window. Winston of the Prairie "The horrible things I said and did—the ghastliness of it—" "My dear girl," I interrupted, as kindly as I could. Jaffery The huge bodies, wild features, and long shaggy hair of the men, gave a ghastliness to their aspect. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Thin, and pale even to ghastliness, his whole appearance indicated sickness and the utmost destitution. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 He felt that his smile was ghastly; but, as she seemed not to perceive it, he drew the conclusion that the ghastliness was within. The Street Called Straight He was thin to the point of ghastliness. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces "I can imagine nothing more finnikin in ghastliness than to cut anybody's throat with nail scissors, especially when the subject is unwilling." Jaffery But in their own way nothing can be finer: they have a tragic liveliness in ghastliness, a grotesque animation of horror, which no other poet has ever conceived or conveyed to us. The Age of Shakespeare Malling stood where he was till he saw the broad ghastliness of Marcus Harding's white face show under the ray of a lamp. The Dweller on the Threshold I could not but sit and gaze at the reflection of the seared ghastliness of that face, which was mine and yet not mine, and feel well-nigh sick unto death. Master of His Fate She got no further, however, for she observed the ghastliness of Helene's face. A Love Episode The expression was that of agony—the agony of intense bodily pain; but a menace scowled upon the brow, and a few sprinklings of blood added to its ghastliness. Tales of a Traveller Their late proprietors were a famous brigand and his merry men, only looking quite the reverse of merry in the grim ghastliness of decapitation. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 She has grown pale and thin even to ghastliness, yet I was sure she had color when I first came in. A Young Girl's Wooing And women of a provincial town, who had led peaceful, cloistered lives, they did not blench or falter in the presence of ghastliness which only men are supposed to have the stoicism to witness. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form So it seemed to me then, before I had seen greater ghastliness. The Soul of the War There was a revival preacher by the name of Knapp, whose lurid eloquence in this vein made him famous, and whose imagery was equal in ghastliness to anything that the Catholic Church could produce. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I My slow tread tolled like a passing-bell, and the mountainous ice lay vague and white around me, its sheeted ghastliness not less dreadfully silent than eternity itself. The Purple Cloud She veiled from us the ghastliness of death, telling us Aunt Betsy and both our little cousins had gone to heaven. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Tendering a coin through the trap door the fare slipped out and away, leaving an effect of uncanny, eccentric ghastliness upon the driver’s mind. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale Three weird old women of transcendent ghastliness, were at needlework at a table in this room. The Uncommercial Traveller The door of this room looks due north, and as I write the Pole Star blazes, and a cold crescent moon hangs over the ghastliness of Long's Peak. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains He laughed loudly at his own sally, but Hans’s face was frozen into a sullen ghastliness that nothing less than the trump of doom could have broken. Love of Life and Other Stories Then he thought of his little daughter—his daughter!—and the ghastliness of his supposition overpowered him. An Outcast of the Islands "Or yours, if you had got here first," said she, beginning to realize the whole ghastliness of the possibility. The Woodlanders His mother was alarmed at the ghastliness of his face and the expression of anxious wretchedness new to it. Frances Waldeaux There was something so methodical and so incomprehensible about the deeds of this unknown assassin, that it imparted a fresh ghastliness to his crimes. A Study in Scarlet Two ineradicable defects,' said Knight, there being a faint ghastliness discernible in his laugh. A Pair of Blue Eyes At first he did not know where he was, but by degrees his situation cleared to him, and he beheld it in all the ghastliness of a right mind. Jude the Obscure Isabella pressed her hand upon her bosom, still smiling, but with a ghastliness that curdled the blood of Frances. The Spy But the young students were in nowise oppressed by the ghastliness of their abode. Charlotte's Inheritance The tree lay along the ground, and was wholly converted into a mass of diseased splendor, which threw a ghastliness around. Sketches from Memory (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") At which she started, and lifting up her head, the very ghastliness of death stamped upon every feature, she shrieked: 'I drown! Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra That very moment, with an appalling unearthly cry, something dark, something hideous, something of inconceivable ghastliness, as it seemed to Tommy, sprang right out of the water into the air. A Rough Shaking O broken Belgium robbed of all save grief and ghastliness! A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 But there was a ghastliness in the whole thing which frightened her. The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love I killed Brown every night for months; not in old, stale, commonplace ways, but in new and picturesque ones;—ways that were sometimes surprising for freshness of design and ghastliness of situation and environment. Life on the Mississippi, Part 4. There is a ghoul-like ghastliness in talking about "ornamental," or "becoming," or "complimentary" mourning. Manners and Social Usages If there had but been a print—a stain of dirt—a cobweb, to fleck their unbroken ghastliness! Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Oh Heaven, the ghastliness of that Maid's look!— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes There is, however, a strange superstition, about tsubaki-trees; and this sacred tree of Yaegaki, in the opinion of some folk, is a rare exception to the general ghastliness of its species. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series It is Karma;—it is the creation of thoughts and acts of error;—it is not governed by any providence;—it is a ghastliness, a nightmare. In Ghostly Japan Each metal bar was sagging with a hideous load--a row of human skeletons, stark, fleshless, frightful in their ghastliness. Darkness and Dawn I was awakened by his sudden appearance at my bed-side, but no sooner sat up than I fell back again, appalled by the ghastliness of his visage. The Bushman — Life in a New Country In her eyes there is a blind, dazed sort of horror—on her face there is a ghastliness no words can describe. A Terrible Secret Every mark had it, and had it increasingly—this indistinct fiery tinge that painted a new touch of ghastliness into the picture. The Wendigo A cross lay on the breast; the grey hairs were blowing about in the air, and, in frightful adornment of the ghastliness of death, a bouquet of flowers was placed upon the mouth. The Bravo Blair's face was haggard; Elizabeth's was white to the point of ghastliness, but there was a smudge of crimson just below the glittering amber of her eyes. The Iron Woman The necessary mutilation of the bodies of those who had been my friends, rendered the ghastliness of my situation more frightful. History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra But the ghastliness was not in the mere fear that death might not be far off. The Young Step-Mother It was ultradevilish; both by design and accident—conceived and calculated ghastliness, peculiar to India. Told in the East He looked mournfully at the gentle and affectionate being who awaited his return, and when he struggled to answer her ingenuous smile, the abortive effort gave his features an expression of ghastliness. The Bravo Like an infuriated tiger, Romescos, nimble as a catamount, is fast destroying every vestige of outline in his antagonist's face, drenching it with blood, and adding ghastliness by the strangulation he is endeavouring to effect. Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter I shudder at the ghastliness of the grave, and would forget that I cannot always clasp your warm heart to my own. The Wedding Guest Then, too, I had doubtless a look of ghastliness and astonishment that might well have awaked suspicion, and Capt. The Heart's Highway She suffered the ghastliness of dissolution, broken and gone in a horrible corruption. Women in Love His natural hatred of the teacher for whom Sin and Death had no terrors turned into a wild personal worship of him which has the ghastliness of a beautiful thing seen in a false light. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion Mr. McCall was inclined to think that he loathed the imitation coffee rather more than the cereal, but Washington held strong views on the latter's superior ghastliness. Indiscretions of Archie Christopher stammered, with a wire-drawn, radically different smile from the one he had intended—a smile not without a tinge of ghastliness. The Hand of Ethelberta That’s partly what I meant by saying that magnitude, which up to a certain point has grandeur, has beyond it ghastliness.’ Two on a Tower But till then I wished to dream on, as anyone does in a dream which can still be blissful though there be pauses of pain, or ghastliness, or doubt, or terror. The Lady of the Shroud The candle shone in the face of the Signor and showed that there had arisen upon it a film of ghastliness. A Group of Noble Dames ‘O, an amazing treat!’ said Miss Johnson, with an ecstasy in which a close observer might have discovered a tinge of ghastliness. The Trumpet-Major The ghastliness of this thought, brought home so utterly, made him writhe, and grasp the railings as if he would have bent them. Saint's Progress Only the initiated body of men he addressed could understand the horrible bitterness of irony that lurked under the quiet words ‘useless ones,’ and the ghastliness of the laughter apparently so natural. Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school The ghastliness of his face spread almost to his lips, and he sank back among the pillows. Havoc Colonel Stilton grinned affirmation, although the chief of detectives could not fail to note the ghastliness of the grin. On the Makaloa Mat His countenance was pale even to ghastliness, and his deep-set eyes glared with unnatural luster. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American Removed from harrowing scenes of ghastliness and distress, the court made merry. Royalty Restored He could not but remark his uncle's extraordinary look, that had the ghastliness of fear superadded to that of death, as he gave him permission to enter his closet. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Every one could then recall the ghastliness of his features and all the evidences of extreme excitement they had observed throughout the trial, things they might otherwise have forgotten. Twelve Stories and a Dream For the greater part of our period of suffering the Empire was engaged in a titanic struggle, which, for ghastliness is without precedent. Native Life in South Africa The young man, too, seemed petrified by the ghastliness of his deed. The Valley of the Moon His face was white to ghastliness, so shaken was he by the struggle through which he had passed. Moon-Face I gloated over the ghastliness of each detail; howls resounded through the vault; somebody whom one could not see, whose vicinity was not even suspected, would suddenly drop upon another's shoulder. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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