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Its style was lively and direct; he presented the fever in all its hideousness and did not spare any details. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z
I felt desperate to use the chamber pot, but first I had to face the hideousness that awaited outside. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
Well, if you did have to face the hideousness, it was a lot better to do so with an empty bladder. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z
It seems out of place here among the hideousness, but the players are world-class, Papa says. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
Let’s hold off on confessions of hideousness until we’ve examined those burning bubbles in your chest — which, by the way, is a pretty good description of the physical sensation of envy. I’m Jealous of My Friend’s Success. Would Telling Her Help? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z
Until it’s seized on by a shameless Italian curator thrilled by the suit’s hideousness. Mining the Madness of Pure Logic in Stories That Dazzle and Discomfit 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z
Those monsters represent the hideousness of the human soul. Between "Ghosts" to "Not Dead Yet," it's starting to look like TV is having a season full of spirits 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z
Hair dye ads relentlessly promise to save us from the hideousness of going grey. The haters of Mary Beard's grey hair 2013-01-25T10:31:28Z
You want to be terribly wrong: you want the damaged infant's hideousness to turn out to have been nothing but your own weird delusion or hallucination. David Foster Wallace on 'The Nature of Fun' 2012-11-16T11:00:02Z
The night is there to cloak their hideousness! How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z
Slowly, the hideousness of the stereotype began to sink in. Jacqueline Woodson Responds to Racist Watermelon Joke 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z
She added they would "show how music and creativity can bring unity in times of just hideousness". Liverpool will host 'best' Eurovision for Ukraine 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z
They just kept taking swipe after swipe at the glum-looking, contorted hideousness of his face. The Matador and Me: Coming to Terms with My Famously Ugly Lookalike 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z
Not only was the structural racism in American society displayed in all its hideousness, but people were dissecting and debating it across social media in a way that had never been possible before. The Pandemic Deepened Fault Lines in American Society 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z
“Male hideousness doesn’t faze me, it’s not threatening, for it belongs to me too,” he writes. Review: A navel-gazing Norwegian gets over himself, a little, in a new essay collection 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z
Once established, these fake sites, with plausible-sounding names like the Arizona Monitor and the Kalamazoo Times, become official-looking platforms for all varieties of hideousness. How should Democrats fight back against Trump's billion-dollar "Death Star"? 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z
We’re done for today with what Edgar Allan Poe called “the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed”. Back to the border of misery: Amexica revisited 10 years on 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z
He’s one of those hideous men who, despite his hideousness toward women both alleged and demonstrated, has found reward after reward for failure after failure. Opinion | America’s last hideous man 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z
Mr. Karski recalled later, “The chaos, the squalor, the hideousness of it all was simply indescribable. There was a suffocating stench of sweat, filth, decay, damp straw and excrement.” Opinion | What Congress can do now to combat China’s mass ethnic cleansing of Uighurs 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z
It’s like stepping backward through the internet and emerging into the neon frontier town of cheerful hideousness that existed a decade ago. Why celebrity gossip blogs refuse to abandon Livejournal 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z
What they shared was the certainty of their own hideousness, their abject failure to be attractive. The big picture: Andy Warhol and Diana Vreeland in New York in 1976 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z
“They do not have the right to propagandize their hideousness.” Russia talks LGBT tolerance for WCup but locals have doubts 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z
What has always worried people about #MeToo is first that a retrospective cataloging of the hideousness isn’t fair because it’s not only women who were looking through a different lens then. Opinion | America’s last hideous man 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z
But the facts here are simply not compelling enough to outweigh the hideousness of two spaces. Please don’t use this study to justify your horrible habit of using two spaces after periods 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z
It was hideousness — not merely as a visual aesthetic, but as an overwhelming version of the world. Why celebrity gossip blogs refuse to abandon Livejournal 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z
Krasinski has clearly absorbed a lesson in conceptual economy from Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds," and like a "Jaws"-era Steven Spielberg, he takes his time revealing the monsters in all their sharp-fanged, big-eared hideousness. Shut up and spread the word: 'A Quiet Place' is a thrillingly intelligent monster movie 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z
Compared with the hideousness of an unnecessary war, Trump is a historical asterisk who will be gone, sullied and scorned in due course. Protesters should let Trump air his hate 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z
At a steakhouse afterward, he seemed out of sorts, ordering liver and onions and commenting on the hideousness of the restaurant’s red velvet wallpaper. Oliver Sacks: Diverse Elements in Harmony 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z
An unexpected side-effect of the heart-wrenching gun massacre in Charleston is that the coverage on “Fox & Friends” has managed to reach all new depths of hideousness, even for the typically horrendous Fox News Channel. How “Fox & Friends” became the most repugnant show on Fox News 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z
We’ll have to explain the hideousness of racism and watch his big, beautiful smile fall, his lips quiver, and his whole face crumple into confusion and disillusionment. America’s ugly whitesplaining epidemic: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the media’s utter cluelessness 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z
Bradley Cooper quite literally transforms himself in the new Broadway revival of “The Elephant Man” from a Hollywood hunk into a man of “physical hideousness, incapacitating deformities and unremitting pain.” Review: Bradley Cooper terrific in ‘Elephant Man’ 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z
One year old this month, the Wall of Shame, as it is often called, cleaves Berlin’s war-scarred face like an unhealed wound; its hideousness offends the eye as its inhumanity hurts the heart. 9 Essential Berlin Wall Stories 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z
He trembled violently as a mental vision of himself hurtling through space gripped him in all its hideousness. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z
Might she not have cleared away half its hideousness? It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z
The dun hideousness which by its drear monotony made the eyes ache was masked by blossom and verdure. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z
The world, from the point where she now stood, was of such exceeding hideousness, that it came home with conviction to the spectator that nothing mattered any more. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z
Like the Wandering Jew, again I urge on my wild career, and here I am with noble savages—so hideous that words fail to tell their hideousness Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z
The day was dry and sunny, and the scenery, if such a tract of hideousness can be called scenery, was at its best. 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
Mrs. Marks' letter was not meant unkindly, but she never attempted to lessen Tom's fault or palliate his conduct; the truth stood out in all its glaring hideousness. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z
Finally Lydia Sibyl died smitten with smallpox and all her beauty gone to hideousness. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z
Quarrels were frequent now, and finally, after an exceptionally fierce one, in which two calloused, coarsened natures revealed themselves in all their hideousness, the precious pair parted. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z
In his eyes it had something of the hideousness of savages dancing. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z
To crown my disadvantages, the left side of my face, seen in profile, still retained its natural appearance to mock my new hideousness. A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 2011-12-15T03:00:15.700Z
What succors him in this danger, which, in the prospect of an eternal duration of punishment, transcends in hideousness all the horrors that can be presented to the imagination? Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z
He was a District Councillor, and a man of substance; he lived twenty miles away, at a place on the coast called Knockeenbwee, in a flat-faced, two-storeyed house of the usual type of hideousness. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z
For an instant, two of the most beautiful countenances in Europe were transformed into living skulls, which grinned out in unspeakable hideousness. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z
But now the full hideousness of it stood revealed to her. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z
The royal sinner seems to see the sin in all its hideousness, and to hate it with unutterable hatred. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z
In Illinois, too, violence asserted its hideousness, and a delegate, Paul Selby, was treacherously assaulted by political opponents. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z
The cartoon is called "The Irish Frankenstein," and is certainly baleful enough to do full justice to the hideousness of the crime it is intended to symbolize. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z
Before the house stood a group of the assailants in all the hideousness of barbarity, paint, and savage nudity. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z
The greenish light seemed to have grown a trifle dimmer, but the waning of the glow only lent an added touch of hideousness to the object in the center of the nimbus. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z
As in a hellish panorama he suddenly saw the whole hideousness of the mistake which had wrecked his life's happiness, and half dazed, helpless, he gazed on as upon the risen spectre of his past. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z
Cash next came to a halt in a network of trenches overlooking a stretch of country that had been tortured into hideousness—a region that looked like a Doré nightmare. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z
Dickens never did any more artistic work than when he painted the aristocratic objectors to popular education in their natural hideousness with Bill Sikes and Dennis the hangman for a harmonious background. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z
How hideously ugly he is, R’ooma; and this very hideousness, I verily believe, is his defence against his foes. In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z
And there, in the half dark made by the drawn window-curtains he saw her lying in the wide, white bed, her beauty hidden—or was it her hideousness—by swathing white cloths. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z
Good God, is my husband a mere pensioner of all this hideousness, as his wretched brother seems to have been? Penelope Brandling A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century 2011-08-25T02:00:27.073Z
Their great need was culture, which he declared to be a study of perfection, the sentiment for beauty and sweetness, the sentiment against hideousness and rawness. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z
He saw wrongs more clearly than other men, and he made them stand out in their natural hideousness. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z
He brought a large cotton umbrella, which, he said, he had brought to please my mother, as a shell might spare its hideousness. Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army 2011-08-19T02:00:11.243Z
Well may you shrink from your own hideousness Since the foul plague has withered up your face And seared it till you die.... Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z
Japan is rapidly becoming the rival in vulgarity and hideousness of Chicago. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z
No clear-sighted observer can draw near and not perceive that in all his native hideousness the man of the club and the dog-cart is among us. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z
May you be born a worm and crawl in slime, A serpent thro ten score of lives, and slough Your skin in hideousness and hate and horror! The Immortal Lure 2011-07-06T02:00:50.730Z
Had there been another human creature present, Gideon would have cried aloud a confession of his sin, but he stood alone with the hideousness of his own transgression. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z
Their reputation for hideousness, like their poisoned arrows and cannibalism, has long been a fallacy, which, although widely popular, should now be exploded. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z
The girl glanced at the smouldering fire in the grate, where to her excited fancy in all their hideousness rose before her the headlines she had read in the evening papers: "Challoner Caught In Chicago!" The Red Mouse 2011-05-30T02:00:14.700Z
It was, as well, the symbol of all hideousness, which had swallowed up happiness. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z
At the sting of it, a tremor ran through him, while cowardice, his besetting quality, long covered by growl and egotism in his strength and hideousness to terrify, alone shone from his unprepossessing yellow features. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z
The bourgeoisie, on the contrary, had displayed all its hideousness. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z
His savage aspect, heightened to hideousness by the crimson streaks of blood on his hands, arms, and face, was sufficient to inspire both fear and aversion. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z
"Use my eyes," said a famous painter, when an acquaintance complained of the hideousness of his model; "use my eyes, sir, and you will see he is sublime!" Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z
Daniel Mylrea," said the Bishop, "it is not for us to know if any hidden circumstance lessens the hideousness of your crime. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z
The hideousness of it all was too terrible. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z
The screen had, as it were, been withdrawn from before the idol they had worshipped, and they had had a glimpse of the moral hideousness which may lie under the veil of outward beauty. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z
Their essential hideousness comes, I take it, from their essential and most abominable hypocrisy. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z
In all its bare hideousness, the thing confronted her. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z
Its hideousness has shocked the sensibilities of dreamers and humanitarians. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z
Madame, I congratulate you upon the hideousness of your son. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z
It was all so ugly, she thought, and her mind revolted against her husband, as she remembered that he could have changed all this, and yet had left it in its bald hideousness. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z
Two china pugs, the size of life, looking like degenerate chimeras, gnash their teeth at all intruders in life-like hideousness. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z
To counteract this movement the "convict lease system" appeared in all its hideousness. Your Negro Neighbor 2011-02-14T03:00:35.203Z
Africa, as if to make up for the hideousness of the rhinoceros and hippopotamus, can lay claim to being the birthplace of the beautifully striped zebras. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z
In a sort of drunken stupor I gazed at the wide-open eyes, and the grimacing face fixed in its hideousness by the convulsion of death. The Blind Mother and The Last Confession 2011-02-03T03:00:11.867Z
Never, no, never until now had she understood the utter hideousness and horror of her life. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z
It mingled in her ear with the other awful sounds—the oaths and blasphemies which filled the air with their hideousness. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z
Its sprawling hideousness, indeed, has always seemed a direct result of the private-minded policy that distinguished Chicago’s big little men. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z
They shrugged their shoulders; they knew they had not that disadvantage of hideousness. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z
You cannot even realize the hideousness of death! The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z
The hideousness of the field of action had also increased. The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' 2011-01-12T03:00:32.843Z
She never got nearer the trenches than Paris; but there the trenches came to her, with all their horror, their sordid hideousness, their sheer, soul-stirring grandeur. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z
The men were arrayed in the gaudy hideousness of war-paint, and to all appearances hugely delighted with the oratory that greeted their ears. The Frontier Angel A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life 2010-12-20T17:12:29.603Z
The disgrace could be no blacker and death would at least have brought to its period the hideousness of the nightmare which must now stretch endlessly into the future. The Law of Hemlock Mountain
The hideousness of the situation, which, in listening to the boy's pretty talk, he had almost forgotten, broke on him afresh. The Undying Past
They saw with a vividness hitherto unapproached the hideousness of the war, the unequivocal brutality of the German method, and the naked, insatiable greed in the German purpose. Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 1 The First Twelve Months of War
Having rivalled a hyena in the hideousness of his grin, he closed the jaws and hid his molars. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846
But God was looking after him, and, one day, when he was sitting alone, the thought of what he had done came before him in all its hideousness. Brother Francis Less than the least
When the golden moon rose above the towering mountain, dispelling the hideousness of a lonesome, dark night, he was still sitting in the same spot, dangling his heels against the solid embankment. The Nightrider's Feud
But for the hideousness of his features and the fierce glance of his eyes, always restless and suspicious, this fellow might have been taken, by his quiet and steady step, for an honest citizen. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6
Till I have lit a candle, how can I remember that I do not believe in ghosts, and in nameless hideousnesses infinitely more frightful than ghosts? The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen
The blood had since dried on her skin and added to the hideousness of her appearance. The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter
A merciful darkness covered the hideousness of ten thousand faces. H. R.
And as they chugged about the Lake in the little Fretta, Sophy grew more and more impressed with the hideousness of the houses that man had thrust upon this lovely nature. Shadows of Flames A Novel
And this hideousness many women also show in their ear lobes, so that it is not possible for them to wear ear drops or pendants. History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII.
Its harsh obtrusiveness makes it forcibly visible to us, overcoming our senses,—and we bring to its altar sacrifices, as does a savage to the fetish which appears powerful because of its hideousness. The Spirit of Japan
Such an idol as that of the grim Huitzilopochtli was as horrible a thing as human ingenuity ever invented, and the same grotesque hideousness runs through all the long list of Mexican idols. The Spanish Pioneers
A deep murmur of amazement and delight arose from all; for this was a fair and goodly sight, and all welcomed it as a relief from the grim hideousness of the witch doctors. The Induna's Wife
It made me feel as though I were looking into a dark and terrible pit, with some monster of unimaginable hideousness and cruelty lurking at the bottom. The King's Assegai A Matabili Story
Here she sees the terrible Hun for the first time, but she was not frightened by the hideousness of the man; proudly erect she looked in his face firmly, defiantly, menacingly. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10)
The African Obeah, the worship of serpents and trees and stones, after smouldering in all the West Indies in the form of witchcraft and poisoning, had broken out in Hayti in all its old hideousness. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses
For those "monstrous" beings are a highly intelligent and extremely sensitive race, and our—to us—trim and graceful human forms seem to them the very quintessence of malformation and hideousness. Triplanetary
Asiatic monsters, which Hellenic poetry had deodorized, landed there straight from the Orient, their native hideousness unchanged. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern
And when they have thus distorted my face, then will they blot out its hideousness with quick-lime like one would rub an ugly picture off a slate. Seeds of Pine
Pictures like those, which show the horrors of a campaign in all their hideousness, may serve a good purpose in creating 315 a detestation of war in all who see them. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things
Picture a freight yard in all its heat and hideousness, and a collection of wooden barracks, no trees, and you will see the place. A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall
Bristol expressed himself aghast at the depravity of women, and told Mrs. Winslow that it seemed to him that the nearer the grave they got the more terrible their greed and hideousness became. The Spiritualists and the Detectives
Ugly and bestial gods caked thick with gold— Their hideousness Blaspheming Christ—'mid shattered altars rolled To rottenness, Their slaves abolished and their priests of old Trodden to nothingness. Blooms of the Berry
They appeared sometimes as serpents gliding noiselessly upon their victims; as birds, horrid of mien, flying resistlessly to destroy or afflict; as beings in human form, grotesque, malformed, awe-inspiring through their hideousness. The Christian View of the Old Testament
Their leader, a tall, athletic young Indian, surpassed them all in the hideousness of his appearance. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion
The hideousness of the face was enhanced by a beard like white cotton, which had grown about the mouth and chin. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I.
Yet people lived here, existed, spent their lives in this crude, poor hideousness, this mean newness; the Leroys lived here! The House of Fulfilment
One of his essential functions, temptation, is destroyed by his hideousness. Devil Stories An Anthology
They noted neither rain nor wind, neither the hideousness of the fields nor the muddy ways. Pierre and Luce
In her ears was the hideousness of a threat that had fastened on her abruptly like a cheetah in the dark. Mary Magdalen
So, then, this that he had done—and prayed that he might never have to do again—was, underneath all its outward hideousness, a more than right, a generous, deed. John March, Southerner
There are horrors beyond horrors, and this was one of those nuclei of all dreamable hideousness which the cosmos saves to blast an accursed and unhappy few. The Shunned House
The stolid hammermen went to work, and the iron nightmare was set up in all its Babylonian hideousness. Old and New London Volume I
According to his usual custom, Marat wore a soiled handkerchief bound round his head, increasing his natural hideousness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850.
He too peered up at it, and for the first time its hideousness and the cold-blooded cruelty of its design struck him. Astounding Stories, July, 1931
Would any one trouble to look for them in the midst of such hideousness? Jena or Sedan?
But I will change her smiles To tears; her weeping to the bitter laugh Of hideousness, that we at last may rest, And be secure from all her woman's wiles! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature
For frank hideousness, commend me to the noble dowager. Miss Cayley's Adventures
Nicko grinned, thus baring his tusks and adding new hideousness to his face. Before Egypt
Whenever, by fatigue and weakness, my terror yielded to drowsiness, the least noise roused me to a sense of the hideousness of my condition. Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871
The nain is a figure fearsomely Celtic in its hideousness, resembling the gargoyles which peer down upon the traveller from the carven ‘top-hamper’ of so many Breton churches. Legends & Romances of Brittany
So long as she believed in her hostels and her mission that might be endured, but forced back upon her more personal life its hideousness stood unclothed. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman
It is just as hateful in the Vosges as in Flanders, only in the Vosges it masks its hideousness with what is beautiful. With the French in France and Salonika
He has often come as an angel of light, concealing his hideousness under a borrowed cloak. Sowing and Reaping
His two years of foreign rambling had educated him into a prideful sense of American vulgarity and hideousness of detail. Clark's Field
The huge animal, fully nine feet in height beneath his antlers, bounded into the air at the reports, with a wild, hoarse cry, which I can compare to nothing I have ever heard for hideousness. Happy Days for Boys and Girls
"Even thou art pale to the lips from the hideousness of the thing." The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts
Nor did she return until the deepest recesses of the human mind had revealed to her their abysmal hideousness, their ghastly emptiness of reality, and their woeful mesmeric deception. Carmen Ariza
For the hideousness of the disgrace to which he had brought her. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country
Notwithstanding the hideousness of sacrilege and murder, which, certainly, in magnitude of atrocity, was scarcely ever equalled, there are many living, even in the immediate neighbourhood, who are ignorant of the cause of the act. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, January 1876 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad
One instant it was empty; the next, in uncanny silence, it was filled with huge hideousness—an enormous, crouching beast. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930
It means that I'm sick of the hideousness of life, of the excruciating lower middle-class arrangement of this room. Audrey Craven
It was to have them look upon their murdered victim and have the crime recalled in all its hideousness. The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan or: the Headless Horror.
Some clever hand had been at work upon the photograph, retouching it, changing its lovely expression, until the portrait, instead of being a thing of beauty, grinned up at him in frightful hideousness. The Film of Fear
He was always angry, chiefly because she had to suffer so, after the hideousness of her undeserved destiny, and yet he saw no way to help that might not make a greater hardship for her. The Prisoner
Jung Sin jerked forward, driven by the madness that twisted his face into gargoyle hideousness. When the Sleepers Woke
Slowly—ah! so very slowly—the hideousness and mockery of her marriage was being forced upon her. The White Lie
But his shoulders were so broad and his arms so long and huge that the man had the seeming of gorilla hideousness and gorilla power. The Roof Tree
Only a still place and perhaps some outer horror some hideousness to stamp beauty, a mark—no changing it now— on our hearts. Sea Garden
He could find no words to lessen the hideousness of this discovery for the man through whose fault the tragedy had come. Heart of the Blue Ridge
He would also disclose to our view the hideousness and awfulness of sin, and the uneasiness, discontentments, trouble and fear attending the wicked as they journey onward to the eternal region of woe. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
The haunting past came back to her in all its evil hideousness—the past which she had put behind her for ever now arose in all its cruel reality and naked bitterness. The White Lie
A sense of the futility of all things, a knowledge that life has lost its taste, the hideousness of finally baffled desire. A Modern Mercenary
Not with words can I express the suggestive hideousness of this thought. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness
The hideousness of it oppressed her like a nightmare; yet her voice did not falter. The New Tenant
When we consider the source of Ham's sin, its hideousness first appears in its true light. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood
What mask could exceed in hideousness the countenance of the Dead Man? City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston
Then, he says, the 'Demon of Chicane appeared to me in all his hideousness. The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
He despised himself; his offence, stripped by her of all extenuation, appeared to him in its own naked hideousness; and it appalled him. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories
Such a tragedy as this which had just occurred was possessed of a peculiar hideousness of its own. The New Tenant
The Romish Church, which next invaded India, unfortunately despised the Syrian community, sought no instruction from its history, made a friend of the caste system and adopted it in all its hideousness. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ
By and by you shall learn how I acquired the hideousness of face which procured for me the title of the Dead Man. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston
I'm sick of this prudery which throws its own hideousness over all it sees. The Hero
The sun streamed brightly into the dining-room of the Jack-o’-Lantern and changed its hideousness into cheer. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern
Famed for hideousness, but kind-hearted and a great insect lover. Terribly Intimate Portraits
Under smiling features and fair garlands, he hides at first that hideousness which in due time is revealed to his victims. Humanity in the City
All the other invaders of Italy were of Teutonic origin, but the Huns were Mongols—of such perfect hideousness that Jornandes regarded them as the offspring of witches and demons. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
It was an old woman of the uttermost hideousness, which struck the eye the more from her being grotesquely clad in a scarlet bodice embroidered with gold. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck
The narrow prison-house, the gloomy pomp, the hideousness of decay, are known to the living and the living alone. The Map of Life Conduct and Character
To Punishment: that the unpenalized crimes of which it is the chronicle may appear in such hideousness to the world as forever to disgrace their perpetrators. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated
For the first time, however, he saw his clothing in all its hideousness. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West
I cannot be more particular; the whole bad business was hideous in the extreme, with all the hideousness that could come from a mind like Jensen’s—a mind begotten of the Bottomless Pit. Marjorie
I discovered my mistake—not the whole of it, but enough to give me a dreadful foreboding of its hideousness, not two hours after the nuptial ceremony. The Light of Scarthey
And between the green woollen bell-ropes on each side of the fireplace and above the cold hideousness of the marble mantelpiece hung a portrait by Romney of a lady as beautiful as a flower. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir
Ah, then! there was the hideousness of the plot. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
The ugliness of that death's head which by this means was suddenly exposed to daylight, the hideousness of that grinning skull so abruptly revealed, may be imagined by poets. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
And under its transforming touch even the torn bodies lying before the bright face of the rock lost their hideousness, becoming remote, and unsubstantial and visionary. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life
The beauty of works of art and the infinite charm of nature prevented this moral degradation from sinking entirely into hideousness and vulgarity. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03
Cagliostro surveyed the dying tribune with emotion, for in the very hideousness of his countenance there was a subtle and indefinable fascination. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
Irritation of body, produced by utter filth and exposure, incited her to the horrid process of tearing off her skin by inches; her neck and person were thus disfigured to hideousness.... Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies
Some tribes had painted skins—beauty, in their view, consisting, apparently, in hideousness. Xerxes Makers of History
Then, too, I desired to avoid all the hamlets strewed here and there on the sea-beach, for I was unwilling to make a display of my hideousness. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
They even trim bathing-dresses: one would think that nothing could redeem them from their hideousness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
The hideousness of the world tormented them, and, in order to make it beautiful, they endured everything. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
The hideousness of it all!—those people, that band! The Arbiter A Novel
There, too, are figures of Shiva himself in all his hideousness, with his three eyes, covered with ashes, and his eyes inflamed with intoxicating herbs. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877
It was one of the largest of its species; and its great flat head, protruding sockets, and sparkling eyes, added to the hideousness of its appearance. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness
“Yes—I—” She faltered, staring fascinated at the distorted face, marred by a85 sabre to the hideousness of doom itself. Special Messenger
His hare-lip, his hideousness, and the gibberish he talked made people avoid him. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
Then we get to the male characters, and there it is comparatively plain sailing; and would be pleasant sailing enough but for the hideousness of certain portions of the modern male attire. The History of "Punch"
Life was showing itself to her in this experience, as seen through the lens of a quickened imagination, in all its hideousness. Flamsted quarries
They bathe not, neither do they swim; and Cerberus in all his hideousness was not arrayed like some of these. Nights in London
Comparisons were made between the old and the new, in which the hideousness of the new was etched in biting phrase. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
Each prim beast, beautiful because of his crude hideousness differing from his fellows; each with a different story to tell if he would. The Car of Destiny
But though we are well assured that his appearance was repulsive, he redeemed his hideousness by his ready tongue and witty mind. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III
They pierced through the dull, vulgar, contaminated hideousness of low and vicious life, and sent streaming in upon it the light of a higher world and a better law. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
There was one exception, however, to the general hideousness of their faces. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Let me confess that this hideousness, or more properly its cause, rested in the moral, rather than the physical expression; perhaps, too, little of it might have been found in my own heart. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
I have always felt that, even in its last hideousness of cannibalism, only God Himself can judge starvation. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
The same scowl added hideousness to the painted face, and it was easy to understand that his meditations were of any thing but a pleasant nature. The Hunters of the Ozark
A shining spirit, gentle and brave in affliction might have transformed even these, robbing them of their hideousness. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
Girl of sixteen, a "wildwood Cleopatra," an exception to the general hideousness. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
Sin was permitted to do its worst that its real hideousness might be apparent. The Books of the New Testament
She strikes a certain horror to the spectator by the very hideousness of her terror displayed. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
"The sight burst upon him in all its hideousness,—where had been the stately mansion of his lord." Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain
For, in truth, they derived an unfair advantage from the intense hideousness of their countenances. Bulgaria
Girl of sixteen, a "wildwood Cleopatra," an exception to the general hideousness. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
The story is told in all its hideousness, without palliation or reserve, without comment or heightening, in that stern judicial fashion so characteristic of the Bible records of its greatest characters. The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms
Mr. Douglass's forte was in oratory; in exposing the hideousness of slavery and the wrongs of his race. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
He was looking close at sin's utmost hideousness; He was sickened with its contact; He was crushed with its brutality—crushed to death. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion
Beauty is known to us as a relative victory over hideousness. The Complex Vision
Their minds have not been sensitized to outdoor beauty and hideousness. Society Its Origin and Development
“A very unpleasant character,” I observed, though its hideousness did not strike me so forcibly in those days as it does now. Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
Almost, but certainly not quite; for she was hideous, and her hideousness had its charm and its beauty, no doubt; that something by which a woman can attract a man. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories
His horns projected out, adding to the hideousness of his appearance; and at intervals his forked tongue shot forth, glancing in the sun like a purple diamond. The Rifle Rangers
The only beauty we can possibly have to deal with is a beauty which is for ever overcoming hideousness. The Complex Vision
But 'the goodness of God leads to repentance' as the prodigal is conquered and sees the true hideousness of the swine's trough, when he bethinks himself of the father's love. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
The hideousness of the Christian church in the ninth and tenth centuries was passed lightly over by men who had only eyes for the moral obliquity of the church of the Encyclopædia. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle
For those "monstrous" beings are a highly intelligent and extremely sensitive race, and our--to us--trim and graceful human forms seems to them the very quintessence of malformation and hideousness. Triplanetary
The mountains, in that softening light, lost their hideousness and were really beautiful to look upon. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers
And each of these attributes implies this fundamental duality; being resolvable into a choice between hideousness, falsehood, evil, malice, and the opposites of these. The Complex Vision
In a week he awoke to the hideousness of the condition. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
Wasn't it going to be fun—if the play went over "big"—to vanquish this much of the hideousness of the world? Jane Journeys On
Some of the other pictures are wonderful, too—wonderful in their hideousness. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs
It was when he least endeavoured to conceal his character that its hideousness least appeared. The Young Duke
He could hardly help laughing himself at his own hideousness, now that the first disagreeable sense of being the sport of his friends had passed. The Drummer Boy
They soil and mar the mind; and as the record of each day of life is photographed upon the books in Heaven, they each appear in bold relief, in all their innate hideousness. Plain Facts for Old and Young
It came back to her with all the hideousness of a momentarily forgotten nightmare, made newly hideous by the sanities of ordered design and open daylight in which it intruded. Phantom Wires A Novel
They literally dug themselves forward for the rest of the way, the hideousness of their situation relieved only by the bank before their eyes and the hope of high ground held out by it. The Plunderer
There had been moments when the hideousness of his weak brother's fall had driven him to the verge of madness. The Forfeit
The very disproportion and hideousness of the penalty inflamed men's minds to the commission of wrong. The Empire of Love
She not only shows what the liar is like outside, but reveals his inner hideousness, and actual shape, for all to see. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
The hideousness of the discovery had been made the night before. The Emigrant Trail
We have been familiar from childhood with two of him, seated in unspeakable but complacent hideousness at the opposite ends of the chimney-piece. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
There is neither originality of conception nor intelligence of execution to redeem their hideousness: their horror is of the simplest bugaboo kind. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.
They would then have heard a strange tale which might have deterred them from finding in Molnár's hideousness encouragement to pursue his wife with gallantries. How Women Love (Soul Analysis)
Breaking here and there, the billows of mist disclose forlorn tracts of jet-black desolation, wicked, unutterable, hateful in their hideousness, with patches of smutty snow above, and downward-rolling volumes of murky smoke. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
But with the perfection of hideousness—one might safely write Hellishness—of war's latest devices the work of destruction, and almost annihilation became short and sharp. The Mark of the Beast
It is an Influence for Good, because it mirrors our own world in all its naked, all its over-draped hideousness. Post-Prandial Philosophy
If a stone-breaker's face corrupts in purple spots at a certain period after death, we would prefer him painted before corruption, and consequently hideousness, had begun. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
For curiosity is a hungering appetite, virtue is often protected with a very thin veil, and vice can be made to lose its hideousness and assume charms, to untried virtue, irresistible. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
What more repellent than the sweeping robes of lustreless crape, and the purposed hideousness of the heavy cap in which the widow laments the "deliverance" of her husband "from the burden of the flesh"? Death—and After?
The rudest art can achieve such grotesque hideousness long before it can depict beauty. Among Famous Books
The splendour of the execution only adds to their hideousness; we at once seek for nature, and tremble to find it. The Diary of an Ennuyée
It was then that my past life burst upon me in all its hideousness. Scenes of Clerical Life
The result is often as appalling in its hideousness as it is startling in its costliness. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin
Only when out of the line, when the mockery and the hideousness of the whole thing demanded his mind's solution, would the mood of despondency return. The Parts Men Play
Yet I find myself touched by its very hideousness, when I think that it probably looked even so, smelt even so stale and sweet, in the days of my dear father’s boyhood. The Wings of Icarus Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher
So we compromised by strolling the city streets with our military hats and boots, with the army greatcoats seeking to hide the blue hideousness of our dungarees. "Over There" with the Australians
They had ever increased in reality, in intensity and in hideousness. The House of the Vampire
At that Dante awakes from his dream more than ever convinced of the evil of sin and its hideousness. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
Towards ugliness, hideousness, rawness, whether manifested in life or in letters, he was always implacable; and this sentiment no doubt accounts for much of his hostility to Dissent. Matthew Arnold
It imposed itself on Rainham, for the savage strength which it displayed, and for an element in its hideousness which suggested beauty. A Comedy of Masks A Novel
No one recognized this grotesque hideousness more than Doctor Gys himself. Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
I have got a picture of the very woman, Louisa of Savoy, queen-mother of France, and, short of absolute hideousness, I will make myself as like her as I can.... Records of a Girlhood
Not only by such terrible monsters, but by the environment of the condemned sinner, does our poet reveal the hideousness of sin. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
It can scarcely be doubted that he had an innate love of perfect form, an innate "sentiment against hideousness and rawness," and so he was a classicist by temperament. Matthew Arnold
The entrance of the tea-things created a diversion, but the discontented girl sat apart, while the hideousness of her surroundings came upon her as a new revelation. Bluebell A Novel
They think their hideousness charming, and, when the darkness is thickest about them, most firmly believe themselves in Heaven. Idolatry A Romance
The evil is presented in all its native hideousness. English Satires
It was then that the clothes-dealer took his revenge in all its hideousness. His Excellency the Minister
It was a soulagement of our æsthetic discomfort that so long as we remained hidden within it we never realized our own hideousness. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885
The sorceress draws us within her charmed circle by lying words and illusory charms, and when she has so secured the captives, her mask is thrown off and her native hideousness displayed. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII
He sits in supreme hideousness frozen to the end of a wet log, with his desirable hind legs spread in view, and smiles his bronze smile of confidence in his own charm and my friendship. Joy in the Morning
Nor, going on thus from step to step, did she have a sense of the hideousness of the wrong she contemplated. Bressant
No sooner did one grow so familiar to me, that I ceased to tremble at its hideousness, than another, still more terrible, came to overwhelm me in fresh misery. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424 Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852
However repugnant this plan might be, and Edmund felt all its hideousness, he felt every moment more and more convinced that it was the only safe way. Heiress of Haddon
Certainly not," he went on, "if you're right about her, and I fancy you are, that her taste isn't negative, but bad, and that it's the very hideousness of the things she likes. The Real Adventure
But I have promised to spare the reader the detailed hideousness of this Inferno, and this section must close without a word said about that miserable triad, famine, eviction, and emigration. The Open Secret of Ireland
The historians of that day seem to find no language sufficiently forcible to describe the hideousness and the ferocity of these savages. The Empire of Russia
Grisly as was the device, its hideousness might well have been increased had it been able to demonstrate the connection between certain of these accidents and the complete moral disaster which overtook their victims. A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil
And yet even for this country, I think it with a kind of dull surprise as I look out over the naked hideousness of the land, men can be found to fight. With Rimington
In this cabin lived alone the old and shriveled hag whose hideousness gave her a reputation for almost supernatural knowledge. The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana
The Wilsons make a great to-do about the house having been entered, and tell you how he must have been frightened away,—frightened away by the hideousness of their things! The Burglar and the Blizzard A Christmas Story
His dream of the perfect joint-life, what was it but a sham tribute to decency, a threadbare garment for the hideousness of naked passion? Father Stafford
And "we" found good in Italian wines and "we" found nothing but hideousness in Murano glass. Jaffery
China somehow has understood this deep connexion between man and Nature; and that it is human thought molds the beauty and richness, or hideousness and sterility of the world. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
But only along the inundation was there that curious combination of beauty and hideousness, of rippling water with the moonlight across it in a silver path, and in that water things that had been men. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front
Surely nothing could equal the hideousness of that seminary, which exhales the rancid, frozen odour of a hospital. Là-bas
In fact this tomb of Ariosto shocks with its hideousness and levity. Italian Journeys
Oliver Haddo was attracted by all that was unusual, deformed, and monstrous, by the pictures that represented the hideousness of man or that reminded you of his mortality. The Magician
An absolute moral monstrosity, an anomaly in the history of types of female hideousness, had succeeded in showing itself in the light of magnanimity.  Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time
But this crockery piece was new, and, upon Chas's admonition, its shiny hideousness caught and riveted her attention. V. V.'s Eyes
Great crimes were committed there, crimes so dark that their very hideousness protects them from exposure. African and European Addresses
But no, Storm could see nothing but the moral hideousness of the man, lectured him severely, and would have sent him away unrewarded, if I had not temporarily suspended my principles. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories
Here her heart grew sick, and her courage sank under the noise and the haste, before the blackness and the hideousness. Bebee
Mention his name, and the huge blot by which his memory is besmirched starts up before the mind in all its hideousness. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters
Through the long nights that followed, out there in the primitive, Paul thought of the hideousness of life as he saw it now, with a loathing that time seemed only to increase. One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks'
Yonder lies our ... village—Art and Grace are less and less: Science grows and Beauty dwindles—roofs of slated hideousness! Evesham
Herd ye, to keep in countenance; or are afraid of your own hideousness, that ye dread to go alone? Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II
The very stumps that appeared so odious, through long custom, seem to lose some of their hideousness; the eye becomes familiarized even with objects the most displeasing till they cease to be observed. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
And he proceeded to describe his life, and lay before me all the hideousness of a solitary bachelor existence. The Schoolmaster
Would that I could paint thee, in all thy accursed hideousness, in letters of unfading fire, and write them in the vaulted firmament to flame forth to all generations to come their eternal warning. Fifteen Years in Hell
He must save her from herself; he must somehow reach the submerged personality and awaken it to the hideousness of that other, the soulless, heartless automaton that schemed and executed crimes with mechanical exactitude. Out of the Ashes
It had been in its day a respectable, unpretentious square structure of three stories, entirely without architectural beauty, but also entirely without the ornate hideousness of the modern villas along the route de Clamart. Jason
His remorse after he saw in its bald hideousness what he had done was psychologically inevitable. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
At high tide this enormous waste of dreariness and filth was covered by the water, but at present it lay before her in all its naked hideousness, the very type of dullness and desolation. The Firm of Girdlestone
Harrie's failure to appreciate the hideousness of certain recent experiences has made them all the more keenly felt by his brother. People Like That
In this tale of thankless daughters and their piteous old father, all the hideousness possible to the ties of kin is uncovered to our frightened yet fascinated eye. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities
The other was a bent and broken woman in black, whose veil concealed the dreadful hideousness of her face. A Spinner in the Sun
He angrily resents the imputation upon that Puritan type of life, by which the life of our serious middle class has been formed, that it was doomed to hideousness, to immense ennui. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold
What more horrible portrait exists in poetry than that of "la belle Heaulmière" grown old, as she contemplates her beauty turned to hideousness—her once fair limbs become "speckled like sausages"? Old and New Masters
A hundred years of hideousness, Constricted brows, and strain, and stress! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890
As the man took up the lamp and trimmed it, the light fell strongly upon his features, and revealed all their hideousness. The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance
Then the truth in all its hideousness dawned upon me. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890
There was just grace enough left in me for the hideousness of the terror to wake me. Paul Faber, Surgeon
There can be no advantage to humanity in exhibiting the hideousness of disease or the monstrosities of certain natural phenomena! Delsarte System of Oratory
Accordingly there developed everywhere—in schools, in places of public accommodation, in the facilities of city life—the idea of inferior service for Negroes; and an unenlightened prison system flourished in all its hideousness. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia
As for Yu-lang, the tedium of beholding the hideousness of all the guests was curiously diminished by the pleasure of seeing Prudence's delectable face. Eastern Shame Girl
The rather pretty girl who had mustered the nerve to come as a bearded lady trembled with excitement, hoping to be rewarded for an evening's hideousness. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
The hideousness of the animal, and the mingled terror and bravery of Jack, gave us subject of conversation for some time. The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island
How could a man glide into the lower walks of life, whose mission it was to set forth the types of moral beauty by opposing them, to use his phrase, "to the hideousnesses of vice?" Delsarte System of Oratory
Thus in all its hideousness developed the convict lease system. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia
Yet how painful to picture those golden marbles, in all their immortal fairness, confronted with the hideousness of those fanatic ill-smelling multitudes. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
I entered, and there, over the body, hung a form gigantic, but uncouth and distorted, and with a face of appalling hideousness. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
How there was no good in the world, no use for me there, no one loved me or ever could on account of my hideousness. My Brilliant Career
It may be possible to cure a vice by showing its hideousness. Delsarte System of Oratory
At last she could bear it no longer; she put her hands to her ears to shut out the hideousness of it. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
The new belfry is fortunately a thing of the past, and its insolent hideousness no longer defaces Christ Church, but while it lasted it was no doubt an excellent target for Lewis Carroll's sarcasm. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
Now she shudderingly saw it stripped of its mask and revealed for the first time in all its hideousness, a place of murders and spying and secret machinations. The Apartment Next Door
"I wouldn't mind the thought of poverty so much—not hunger, nor thirst, nor cold—but dirt and hideousness—they are too terrible." Bambi
It lacks the hideousness of exposure, so far as you see. For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store
But it goes on its way immovable, grinding the poor, enslaving the slave, admiring hideousness, adulating vulgarity for its wealth and insignificance for its pedigree. Essays in Rebellion
Of course his disappointment had a great deal to do with his remorse; most people do not perceive the hideousness of sin until they begin to reap its consequences. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays
In all the drab hideousness of modern warfare there is nothing so airy, so piquant, so pretty as this. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them
The murderous-headed statues of the wicked Emperors of the Soldiery, whom sculptors had not been able to flatter out of their villainous hideousness, might have come off their pedestals to run away with the Bride. Little Dorrit
But Professor Maxon did not reply-he had returned to view his grim operations, and the hideousness of them had closed his ears to the sweet tones of the girl's voice. The Monster Men
The day was clear and hot, and I saw the island, not smiling with beauty, but staring with naked hideousness. The Voyage of the Beagle
There was her womanly sensitiveness to enhance the innate hideousness of the thing that had been done here before their eyes. Within the Law
And then from hating "Hanson" he came to look upon himself with hate and loathing—to see himself and his perfidious act in all their contemptible hideousness. Son of Tarzan
The days and nights of torture that the young woman suffered were so merged into one long, unbroken nightmare of hideousness that she soon lost all track of time. Beasts of Tarzan
The filed and blackened teeth behind the loose lips added the last touch of hideousness to this terrible countenance. The Monster Men
I imagine this repulsive aspect originates from the features being placed in positions, with respect to each other, somewhat proportional to those of the human face; and thus we obtain a scale of hideousness. The Voyage of the Beagle
Never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome yet appalling hideousness. Frankenstein
Straggling upon the outskirts were the thatched huts of natives, picturesque in their primeval savagery, harmonizing with the background of tropical jungle and accentuating the squalid hideousness of the white man's pioneer architecture. Son of Tarzan
Remained Balatta, who, from the time she found him and poked his blue eyes open to recrudescence of her grotesque female hideousness, had continued his adorer.  The Red One
Sometimes it is alleged that valuable jewels are found in a toad's head, and on this account the hideousness even of the far-famed horned toad of the West becomes less repulsive. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
The hideousness of vice is greatly reprobated in books, so that he who loves to commune with books is led to detest all manner of vice. The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
I had sagacity enough to discover that the unnatural hideousness of my person was the chief object of horror with those who had formerly beheld me. Frankenstein
That another contemplated no worse a deed than he had contemplated in no way palliated the hideousness of the other's offense. Son of Tarzan
Not even the water she brought him in a forest-leaf, and the ancient and half-putrid chunk of roast pig, could redeem in the slightest the grotesque hideousness of her.  The Red One
In church, in state, in society— he tore the painted mask from the face of hypocrisy and exposed it, in all its festering hideousness, to the world's ridicule. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12
She cast aside her soiled and ragged robe and stood revealed in all her hideousness—a thing of horror. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01
"My daughters tell me it doesn't matter at my age—as if hideousness didn't matter all the more the harder it gets to conceal!" The Age of Innocence
A house this size and of this poverty in an American village," was Betty's thought, "would be a bare and straggling hideousness, with old tomato cans in the front yard. The Shuttle
Indeed, except for its hideousness and brutality, his face was without expression. Tracks of a Rolling Stone
All the hideousness of her profession disappeared under the gorgeous draperies of the imagination. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
But, after all, is not this simply the writhing of the age translated into black,—the triumph of the Lie which today, with its false culture, faces the hideousness of the anarchist assassin? The Souls of Black Folk
Of all I have seen here nothing has impressed me so as the hideousness of the women, girls, children, widows, grandmothers. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis
You know all the hideousness and barbarity of what is being done. The Lost Prince
There were too many people, provincials with foolish faces, foreigners poring over guide-books; their hideousness besmirched the everlasting masterpieces, their restlessness troubled the god's immortal repose. Of Human Bondage
Just as one cannot translate a horrible odour, or a ghastly pain, or a fearful sound, into words, so I cannot describe this new form of awful hideousness. Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women
Then George went at it, and knocked it into a shape, so strange, so weird, so unearthly in its wild hideousness, that he got frightened and threw away the mast.  Three Men in a Boat
As long as you thought me handsome, you could have come back, I know you would have come back ... but, now that you know my hideousness, you would run away for good... The Phantom of the Opera
The bayonets plunged into the bellies of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably never been seen anywhere else. Les Misérables
How could one compare his beautiful coat with the smooth and naked hideousness of Tarzan's bare hide? Jungle Tales of Tarzan
They are all heads and tails, and then, not the toss of a copper to choose between the two ends, as regards hideousness. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870
It was hideous indeed—but hideousness refined into sublimity, filling the soul with a sentiment of grandeur. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
But, on the other hand, he was never for a moment insensible to the moral hideousness and the tragic folly of Moor's conduct. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, let him look at Machiavelli. Les Misérables
But he unveils vice and folly, so that men may fly from their utter hideousness, in such burning words as it has fallen to few poets to utter. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
But do not imagine that he relies on his own powers of scream and hideousness alone,—not he! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
The yelling, chattering, screeching, howling, all unite to form a chorus almost unearthly in its hideousness. Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
But it requires neither much knowledge nor much insight to stand up against its hideousness; it needs but love that will not be denied, and courage to question the phantom. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II.
In that country the vices of Roman slavery were displayed in all their naked hideousness, and the Apulian shepherds and herdsmen had a reputation for lawlessness that has never been surpassed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
I fell into conversation with two nuns belonging to the Order of St. Charles, and I wish I could delineate the hideousness of their costumes, and the unmitigated ugliness of their general appearance. Holidays in Eastern France
Oh, hideousness of self-complacent, unbending, cheaply bought virtue; thou art almost more revolting than the frank hideousness of vice! Dream Tales and Prose Poems
But such is the perversity of this unfortunate man's talent that he has erected a structure on the limestone crag, of almost miraculous hideousness. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
It was as though the wild beast, till then only growling and faintly stirring within us, had suddenly broken from its chains and reared up, ruffled and fierce in all its hideousness. The Jew and Other Stories
As his chair rolled into the light, the hideousness, not the grace and serenity of old age, was revealed. The Story of Kennett
And now we entered upon one of that species of deserts whose concentrated hideousness shames the diffused and diluted horrors of Sahara—an "alkali" desert. Roughing It, Part 2.
I sat down on a chair beside him, and involuntarily dropping my eyes before the horror and hideousness of it, I too held out my hand. Dream Tales and Prose Poems
The brute side of human nature revealed itself with a hideousness more horrible than the terror of the night and the sea. The Philistines
Then will be the time for her to blush for her disorders, her hideousness, her misery, her crime and to throw herself at last with energy and perseverance into the pursuit of justice. Amiel's Journal
Although none ever bit me or attempted any attack on me yet the hideousness of such apes and their vile odor always made me timid in dealing with them. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
Professing himself the special apostle of the beautiful in art, he nevertheless forces upon us continually the most loathsome hideousness and the most debasing and unbeautiful horror. A Study of Hawthorne
We all drew near to examine the carvings, the hideousness of the image precluding admiration; and Mrs Brandon was gratified, as she told me, to find her protégé distinguish himself by his address. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
The pretty town, which in prospect had worn to Olive Halleck's imagination the blended hideousness of Sodom and Gomorrah, was certainly very much more like a New England village in fact. A Modern Instance
Thus to the end Christ seeks to keep him from ruin, and with meek patience resents not indignity, but with majestic calmness sets before the miserable man the hideousness of his act. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke
The djinns and devils in the garden might present themselves in all their hideousness if it so pleased them but tonight she was heedless of them. The Shadow of the East
Vice, without her mask, is a spectacle too appalling for humanity; it exhibits the hideousness, and breathes of the corruption of hell. Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
We have two sets of names for vices: one set which rather mitigates and excuses them, and another set which puts them in their real hideousness. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
As for the superlative hideousness attributed by Mr. Steevens to New York, I can only inquire, in the local idiom: "What is the matter with Glasgow?" America To-day, Observations and Reflections
Charlotte beheld a feeble man of a repulsive hideousness, and was full satisfied, for in this outward loathsomeness she imagined a confirmation of the vileness of the mind she was come to blot out. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
The simple child's interrogation which in the well-known ballad ripped the tinsel off the skeleton, and showed war in its hideousness, strips many of your lives of all pretence to be reasonable. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
The full hideousness of my bargain for her dropped its veil and stood naked before me. The Deluge
Where do we learn the hideousness of sin, the endless antagonism between God and it, and the fatal consequences of it, as we learn them in the sacrifice of our Lord and Saviour? Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
But simply to the outward eye the slums of New York have not the monotonous hideousness of our English "warrens of the poor." America To-day, Observations and Reflections
Melusina, who was years afterwards to be created Duchess of Kendal, had not yet attained to that completeness of lank, bony hideousness that was later to distinguish her in England. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series
We need to get the New Testament conception of the hideousness and sinfulness of all divisions among God's people. To Infidelity and Back
A mass of frightful hideousness, of inconceivable menace. Darkness and Dawn
Really it is wonderful the degree of square and dull hideousness to which, in the process of time and tailoring, and by severe conformity, the human creature’s outward appearance has arrived.  Friends in Council — First Series
But we must leave the house of mourning for the present, and follow the Widow Rooney, who, as she tramped her way homeward, was increasing in hideousness of visage every hour. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life
But, though I understood its hideousness intellectually, it aroused in mo no corresponding emotion; my sensitiveness to right arid wrong seemed stupefied or inoperative. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales
Sectarianism is still present in all of its hideousness, but the people are beginning to see the desolation and sinfulness of divisions and are groping in the dark in various efforts at solution. To Infidelity and Back
Stern exclaimed, shuddering at sight of the unspeakable hideousness of the Things, at glimpses of gnawed bones, grisly bits of flesh, dried gouts of blood upon the woodland carpet. Darkness and Dawn
One would not have thought that the great calm evening under its stooping sky, the peaceful, omniscient trees, the grave, contented colours, could have tolerated such hideousness. Gone to Earth
She had fled from one hideousness to another which would be ten times more horrible. The Sheik
For as soon as we have yielded to the infernal temptation, the lying prism vanishes, the halo disappears, and there only remains vice in all its hideousness and repulsive nudity. The Grip of Desire
Better wear them in all their present hideousness.' Phantom Fortune, a Novel
Though he had been expecting to see something disgusting, something grotesque and horrible, his mind was wholly unprepared for the real hideousness of these creatures, now seen by the ever-strengthening light of day. Darkness and Dawn
Disproportionate outline, sharp conjunctures of affluence and squalor, accented the disheartening hideousness of the scene. The Iron Game A Tale of the War
Draw near to God if you would see sin's awful hideousness. How to Live a Holy Life
The latter seemed to be selected for age, hideousness, and strength: all day they bore their babes smothered in hides upon their backs, and they carried heavy burdens apparently without fatigue. First Footsteps in East Africa
Imagine all this savage hideousness rushing upon you—on a yellow horse with a mane of waving red! Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
Indeed, in the unearthly light she looked like a spirit, the spirit of beauty triumphing over the hideousness of hell, the angel of light trampling the Devil and his works. The People of the Mist
Merry railed at these evidences of commercial invasion, wondering who had come to the village to transform it into city hideousness. The Iron Game A Tale of the War
At first he could not collect his wits to remember how he had come hither, but a sharp pain in his breast brought back the truth in its naked hideousness. The Four Canadian Highwaymen or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp
This points to that terrible way of teaching Art, by accustoming its students to hideousness and vulgarity, till Art itself might become an unknown quantity. Mrs. Shelley
How you must feel, you who have done so much to set this accursed slavery in the glare of the world, convicting it of hideousness! Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe
The rather pretty girl who had mustered the nerve to come as a bearded lady trembled with excitement, thinking to be rewarded for an evening's hideousness. Tales of the Jazz Age
Give the Free Churches time, and let us see whether they have not something better to give us in return than "hideousness" and "immense ennui." Lectures and Essays
Blair, plainly bored, said, "Well, I don't like hideousness and dirt." The Iron Woman
In any western town you may chance on a brave and his wife and a baby, resplendent in gay blankets and trappings, sliding gravely through the hideousness of the new order that has supplanted them. Letters from America
Even the hideousness of sin can be cloaked with such words until its outlines look like a thing of beauty. How to Speak and Write Correctly
"I don't think it fair that one face and form should be perverted into hideousness, and mother left with something of the first perfection." From Jest to Earnest
Shew it in broad daylight, hold it up before the world and make its hideousness manifest to all - then, and not till then, will the hours of unbelief be numbered.  The Fair Haven
The simple hideousness of the painted features served no impressive purpose, but as contrast to the exquisite decorations of the room. The Perils of Pauline
The whole truth, in all its hideousness, burst upon him. Maximilian in Mexico A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867
Without such palliation the vileness, the horror, the hideousness of a play like "Tosca" is more unpardonable in an operatic form than in the original. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
The great Delaware idol was there in all its hideousness, life size, in the form of a woman, and carved from one solid block of wood, then painted and stained the Indian copper color. The Shagganappi
What is there to choose between a face distorted to hideousness by anger, and one distorted to silliness by self-complacency? A Double Story
Henceforth, these ideal groups must visit my imagination mixed with the bulging eyes of greed and the contortions of hate masking their hideousness under false smiles or hiding them behind the motions of riotous jollity. Dark Hollow
Children—­ save the mark!—­with pallid, precocious little faces, pinched with the ravages of starvation, gazing with dim, filmy eyes on this world of rapacity and hideousness. I Will Repay
The Desert-Born surveys him gravely and in civil compassion, sometimes with a muttered prayer against the hideousness of him, but on the whole with patience and equanimity,—influenced by considerations of "backsheesh." Ziska
I've studied you, careful, as man and boy, for a matter of thirty years, but I never seen you in all your hideousness till this trip. The Winds of Chance
No torture that I ever heard of or could ever have conceived—no punishment, no agony, no Calvary ever has matched the hellish hideousness of the endless execution of this young man.... The Hidden Children
But the dawn would not stay back in order to hide Benton's hideousness. The U. P. Trail
Her oath, her life, her final denunciation appeared before her in all their hideousness. I Will Repay
But a lover of peace, confronted by the hideousness of war, does best to try, if he can, to make plain what he means by peace and why he desires it. Escape, and Other Essays
I drank, gambled, and my midnight carousals would sicken your soul were I to paint all their hideousness. St. Elmo
It is impossible to exaggerate the hideousness of the regime of Mahdism. The Expansion of Europe The Culmination of Modern History
A change of trains, and half an hour's delay, at Manchester, then on through Lancashire civilization, through fumes and evil smells and expanses of grey-built hideousness, as far as the station called Bartles. The Emancipated
Yet to my mind, spoilt by pottering among old pictures, that bit of wall was so monstrous in its hideousness that I stood moon-stricken, and even yet I haven't got over it. Our Friend the Charlatan
Journey on the top of a tram-car from King's Cross to Holloway, and civilisation has taught you its ultimate achievement in ignoble hideousness. Thyrza
Even if it escaped the hideousness of sin, the hideousness of age was in store for it. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jimmy had expected the usual hideousness, but here everything from the wall-paper to the smallest ornaments was wonderfully well selected. The Intrusion of Jimmy
There's so much hideousness in this war—I've got to go and help wipe it out of the world. Rilla of Ingleside
If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also revolting hideousness and demoniac woe. Napoleon Bonaparte
I suppose 'tis early days in the revival of the arts to express one's disgust at the daily increasing hideousness of the posters with which all our towns are daubed. Hopes and Fears for Art
Lord Marney had all the petty social vices, and none of those petty social weaknesses which soften their harshness or their hideousness. Sybil, or the Two Nations
His theme was the story of the leprous man who dared to come to the Great Healer in all the hideousness of his disease and who was straightway cleansed. The Prospector
To her God made the world beautiful: man was responsible for its hideousness. Peg O' My Heart
Notwithstanding the disregard they have invariably shewn for all the finery we could deck them with, they are fond of adorning themselves with scars, which increase their natural hideousness. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
She was absorbed in the one catastrophe whose hideousness seemed to eat her very life away, even while her nerve, and her brain, and her courage remained at their keenest and strongest. Under Two Flags
Not so much on account of his natural hideousness, increased a thousand-fold by the tattered and filthy rags which barely covered him. For the Term of His Natural Life
And then there leapt in my mind a glimmer of returning consciousness: a glimmer that grew rapidly to be a blazing light in which I saw revealed the hideousness of the thing I did. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
Here is order with its charm, there disorder with its hideousness; on the one hand a dainty mosaic of shells, on the other a clumsy heap of sticks. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
He realized to the full the hideousness of his selfishness, and yet, as before, he was not strong enough to conquer it. The Sea-Hawk
No lessons inculcating the beauty and sure reward of goodness or the hideousness and certain punishment of vice are ever wasted on him. The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West
So my father, seeing all this, sat down in the twilight one night beside me, and told me the story of my own hideousness. The Midnight Queen
If the optimism of Leibnitz is a foolish though pleasant dream, the pessimism of Schopenhauer is a nightmare, the more foolish because of its hideousness. Evolution and Ethics
The friar had thrown hack his cowl, and disclosed features of appalling hideousness, lighted up by a diabolical grin. Windsor Castle
He has the hideousness of the prehistoric monsters whose reduced descendant he is, but he is gentler than the dove. Sixes and Sevens
I am sorry to say, however, that, on the score of gallantry, Poinsinet was never quite convinced of the hideousness of his appearance. The Paris Sketch Book
I know thus much, that you are beneath my care if it be necessary to warn you against him; his own lips show the hideousness of his heart. Zanoni
Some of them but skins drawn over skulls, living Death's-heads, grotesque in their hideousness. Robert Falconer
It was above the ordinary stature, and was enveloped in a long black cloak, while a tall, conical black cap, which added to its height, and increased the hideousness of its features, covered its head. Windsor Castle
And the hideousness, the filthiness of all your surroundings, doesn't that affect you? Crime and Punishment
What a fate for a man—to be tied for life to a woman who will, with sure gradation, pass from at least outward beauty to utter hideousness! A Face Illumined
To give you an idea of Mr. Harris's superstitions, he told me that he saw the devil, in all his hideousness, on the road, just before dark, near his farm, a little north of Palmyra. The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901
I confess, the hideousness of it paralysed me.  The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
It makes hideousness beautiful and stupidity clever, old age young and wickedness good, moroseness amiable, and low-mindedness magnanimous, perversity pretty and vulgarity piquant. Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance
She no longer asked questions; she no longer addressed him; oath followed oath from her thin lips, and the hideousness of this woman's blasphemy made me shudder. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...
It was as though Nature, for an artistic freak, had set herself the task of fashioning hideousness and beauty from precisely the same materials.  Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green
I cannot give you any idea of the hideousness of their aspect, and was much inclined to sympathise with the more innocent-looking fiends whom they were maltreating. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Alert and of a vivid and investigating mind, it did not take him long to discover the hideousness of that black monster, the Catholic Church. Anarchism and Other Essays
Fight ensued; fight in the streets; which, in hideousness of noises, if in nothing else, was beyond parallel. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19
He had become so repulsive, that passing his hand over his face, he felt his own hideousness. Thais
But his very hideousness made him "beautiful" to a lover of dogs. Dick Hamilton's Airship, or, a Young Millionaire in the Clouds
Oh, the wild hideousness of that face, even in sleep! The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American
One has but to inspect our parks and thoroughfares to realize the hideousness and vulgarity of the art manufacture. Anarchism and Other Essays
Dismiss the spectre, for it blasts my sight, And sears my brain with its dark hideousness! Mazelli, and Other Poems
Yet if he remained, it would simply mean that his own and Hagthorpe's crews would join in the saturnalia and increase the hideousness of events now inevitable. Captain Blood
Those ghastly intangible shapes must have taken full form and color, peopling the old ruin with their ageless hideousness. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English
You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. The Schoolmistress, and other stories
I say, old fellow," said Anscombe earnestly, "you don't really mean to go off and leave me in this hideousness? Finished
Horror of an inconceivable monstrosity began to assail me: was I following through the dark an unheard of hideousness? Lilith, a romance
As she looked at the pathos of his face she repudiated the hideousness of his body. The Crock of Gold
Perhaps in no country are there seen so many hags as in Italy—in no country does beauty so awfully change, in age, to hideousness the most appalling and revolting. Last Days of Pompeii
War now showed itself to Desnoyers with all its cruel hideousness. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Remember that his predominant and most harassing apprehension arises from a consciousness of the hideousness of his appearance. The Black Dwarf
Yes, altogether," thought Darya Alexandrovna, looking back over her whole existence during those fifteen years of her married life, "pregnancy, sickness, mental incapacity, indifference to everything, and most of all—hideousness. Anna Karenina
The house, larger than its fellows, built when the street was still a country lane, edging the marshes, strikes a strange note of individuality amid the surrounding harmony of hideousness. Paul Kelver, a Novel
A toad, plump and bloated, lay unmoving before his path; the rays of the lamp fell upon its unshaped hideousness and red upward eye. Last Days of Pompeii
And the Beast in all its hideousness was attempting to govern the world and make mankind render him homage! The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
But, as sometimes happens, the husband began to drink, love grew colder, the necessities of the family hourly grew greater, poverty in all its hideousness came to curse the home once so happy. The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries
"These new institutions, these justices of the peace, rural councils, what hideousness it all is!" Anna Karenina
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