| 单词 | luridly |
| 例句 | What had seemed to be very surreal now has become vividly, luridly real. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was night, and the white faces and the scarlet banners were luridly floodlit. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In the corner, a neat stack of American magazines features page after page of luridly sculpted men in contorted poses. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides her many cuts and bruises, though — some of them luridly three-dimensional — Helen had a concussion. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the figures dancing luridly, the lights flashing, the band going. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The man swore luridly, as if she’d hit his hand with a hammer. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sentences in these stories stretch past the limits of the ordinary to the luridly extraordinary, and some moments feel as if they are breaking through to the sublime,” Justin Torres writes in his review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The sentences in these stories stretch past the limits of the ordinary to the luridly extraordinary, and some moments feel as if they are breaking through to the sublime. Stories of Our Perverse Present and Our Haunted Futures 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Herron is grateful for his loyal readers, though he is slightly alarmed by how much some embrace the misanthropic Lamb and his repertoire of luridly offensive put-downs. Writer Mick Herron’s ‘Slow Horses’ are spies for our times 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Kidman has some truly outrageous scenes, sending up her own image and getting stuck into every luridly horrible moment. Nicole Kidman’s top 10 films - ranked! 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Written, directed and produced by Fuller, “Underworld U.S.A.” initiated the luridly stylized, expertly crafted B-movies — blunt and punchy as a tabloid front page — that make up Fuller’s trilogy of despair. Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z His breakthrough came with freshly coloured and luridly lit genre paintings with one or more half-length figures of imposing scale. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z Apparently, luridly melodramatic limited series constitute a universal language. Review: ‘Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned,’ an Infidelity Drama From Lifetime 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z And the battle scenes are lazily put together: drums, a luridly lit sunset with silhouettes at the back of the stage and someone running across waving a flag and roaring. This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:50Z The lonely, lustful Jud wears a beard, stares at Laurey and collects dirty French postcards, the subjects of which come luridly to life onstage in Laurey's dream struggle between two potential sexual initiations. 'Oklahoma!' sweeps audience back to prairie in lush show 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z This one — which opens with a luridly dressed, recently catapulted corpse being found in a treetop — is notably grislier than Pearson’s “Polar” or “True Cross.” Two things we love this week 2013-02-13T20:52:24Z The examples here are six of the most luridly extreme films from the 60s and 70s, with some of the grooviest soundtracks. This week's new film events 2013-03-02T06:00:11Z Scandal, riches, penury — the Dublin-born Boucicault knew each of those states from the inside, and was brilliant at weaving them into luridly entertaining melodramas. Review: ‘The Streets of New York’ Is a Good Old Melodrama 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Outsiders could do worse for a patron saint, and comedy audiences will find few more luridly intimate accounts of the hedonistic lifestyle. Margaret Cho ? review 2011-08-08T17:30:02Z The result is what he calls a "conservative" restoration; it's hard to see how anyone could accuse them of luridly jazzing up Leonardo's painting, although that won't stop diehard enemies of restoration from finding fault. The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded 2010-07-13T20:31:00Z Sometimes the shocks were luridly comical, like the adventure that ended with Elektra entombing a dead man in the closet. "Pose" kicks off its final fabulous walk by ratcheting up the nonsense as well as its optimism 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The natural inclination in dramatizing Nilsen’s story would be to show him in action, however luridly or soberly you chose to play it. ‘Des’ Review: Depravity, Brought to You by David Tennant 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z In 1959 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship, allowing him to spend nearly two years in New York, where he was awash in luridly colored advertising displays and technicolor magazines. Richard Smith, British Painter Who Turned Toward Pure Color, Dies at 84 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The old gussied-up portrait was on the cover, but set on a black ground and surround by pattern of luridly colored leaves, a noirish design of a kind I associated with murder mysteries. My Hero, Emily Dickinson, Outlaw of Amherst 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z Another fantastic image of the Far East is rendered in miniature and in luridly colorful glazes on a distinctly Germanic tankard. Art Review: A Jewel Box for Translucent Treasures 2011-12-15T22:59:09Z Serialised, short, printed on flimsy paper, cheap and luridly illustrated, penny dreadfuls were issued weekly to a large eager audience. Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Terminus is a luridly compelling waking nightmare of Dublin as an eighth circle of hell. Terminus ? review 2011-04-05T17:31:17Z The animal's luridly ruddy hue heightens the painting's drama and enigma, while the title — inserted along a dotted line that transects the buck's neck — nicely sabotages the piece's potential grandeur. Creatures with a purpose: the heightened 'naturalism' of Skagit Valley painter Robert McCauley 2010-12-30T20:48:04Z But enough of that … not that it doesn't interrupt even my most luridly charming fantasies. These days, authors are also judged by their covers 2010-06-29T12:23:00Z Tears leak from the corner of his eyes, and the muscles in his forearm pop luridly. Disappearing ink 2012-12-26T01:00:00Z Yet while “The Mess” is undeniably a mess it is also luridly gorgeous. Influenced by Her Children, Laurie Simmons Exits Her Comfort Zone 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Those seeking resonant growth should look elsewhere, but in terms of soapy outrageousness, “Toxic” is luridly fascinating. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Then there is the imposing, luridly colorful mural that stretches nine full stories down the side of a building in the Plateau-Mont-Royal neighborhood. Is Leonard Cohen the New Secular Saint of Montreal? 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The zoo comes with 49 species of wild animals, a staff of luridly colorful characters and, for the grieving father and troubled son, ready-made girlfriends. Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo is Pure Cornography 2011-12-22T16:00:34Z But I bet you’ve never seen the ensuing disasters illustrated as lavishly and luridly as they are here. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z The newspapers luridly called her a “priestess of a strange love cult” who supposedly bragged that she controlled a thousand men. Does L.A. have an 'addiction to cults and cultists'? Sure seems like it 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The what of Project Gucciberg is luridly straightforward, but the why is harder to answer. Project Gucciberg offers classic audiobooks read by an AI deepfake of Gucci Mane 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The sample was lifted from an episode of the US reality series Dance Moms, which luridly documented the tantrums and triumphs of a group of pre-teen dancers in Pennsylvania. Can Kenzie Ziegler go from child star to pop star? 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Nixon spoke luridly about the state of the country, with its “cities enveloped in smoke and flame”. Riots helped elect Nixon in 1968. Can Trump benefit from fear and loathing too? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The artist will release, hourly from 10am on Instagram, nine luridly orange and pink coloured images of the Earth with a dot in the middle. Artist Olafur Eliasson releases interactive works for Earth Day 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z When I first saw luridly ugly memes like this, in 2014 and 2015, I wasn’t sure how seriously to take them. Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z It turned women’s bodies into luridly compelling content, and in doing so turned underwear into a political battleground. Many Spanx: how did shapewear become a political battleground? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z We’re definitely in Florida, with its carefree vibes and luridly seductive warmth; but we’re also burrowed deep into a prefrontal cortex that hasn’t yet mastered impulse control or executive function. Review | ‘Waves’ is an epic family drama, bursting with life in all its contradictions 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The sky of her psyche had gone Technicolor with hormonal discharge; it was full of huge, luridly burning stars. “Acceptance Journey” 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Put luridly, that might be a secret society of influential men and women who put tape on their ears, thud into each other with unpadded glee and drink unusual concoctions from boots. 'It's in my blood': how rugby managed to unite America's elite 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z She has embraced the man-repelling style of Vetements with oversized puffa coats and high-necked, luridly floral dresses, and helped turn Princess Diana into a hipster millennial crush by wearing her face on a T-shirt. Rihanna: the pop star who became a fashion powerhouse 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z One newspaper headline luridly speculated: "Inventor thrown into the sea to stop sale of patents to British government." How Rudolf Diesel's engine changed the world - BBC News 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Innocent or insidious, these tweaks are not as luridly discriminatory as the blatant, often bloody shenanigans of the past. The fire next time 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z If the story, inspired by Anne-Sophie Brasme’s novel, borders on the luridly pulpy, its central performances are quiet tours de force. Mélanie Laurent’s ‘Breathe’ dissects a sick relationship 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Put less luridly, more famous Americans than you think have played and loved the game. 'It's in my blood': how rugby managed to unite America's elite 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z For example, one of its most remarked-upon installations is a wreck of Cinderella’s carriage: Her body dangles luridly from the window, lit by the flashes of a paparazzi scrum. Banksy and the Problem With Sarcastic Art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Indians were “objects of racial repulsion who represented the base instincts of humans and the devolution of humanity” and were thus luridly appealing. Pride or Prejudice? 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z At the same she begins trying to sell luridly sentimental pictures of big-eyed urchins, in the midst of abstract expressionism at its most macho and heroic. ‘Big Eyes’ movie review: Tim Burton’s portrait of artist Margaret Keane 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Rivers also ruthlessly sent up – or celebrated – her own self-absorption, avarice and superficiality, and by association, the world she lived in and seemed most luridly to represent. Decorum, decay and impending death – Joan Rivers' standup 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Looming on the horizon appear some enormous and luridly yellow structures, with strangely staggered walls. Up to our necks in a diabolical element 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z In the current football culture, in which tabloid television, crime news and 24/7 sports channels luridly intersect, such humility counts for little. Omission of Bengals’ Riley From Hall of Fame a Striking Oversight 2013-08-03T15:46:05Z These anxieties may sound luridly overdramatic today, but they suffused the mental atmosphere of the government of the United States as President Bush made the fateful decision to launch the Iraq War. David Frum on the Rhetoric of Iraq 2013-03-19T08:45:00Z It did so, and with its flares, its swaying placard, its running riff-raff, now luridly thrown up by the lights, now lost in shadow, formed the most picturesque scene that the election had witnessed. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z His attention was speedily attracted to what seemed a huge fire blazing luridly behind the hills, and lighting up the haze above with its gleams. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Johnny jammed his sombrero on his head with reckless strength and swore luridly as he wheeled to go back into the herd. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z For several minutes Jim Bainbridge ceased from his meditations and coloured the air luridly with the variety and force of his expressions; then he cooled down again, and fell once more into thought. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z There were other things in the letter that had hurt; but that sentence stood out luridly with no whit of the bitterness gone from it after all the years... Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z It was some curious blending of crimson and black silks, that made her look sombrely clad in one attitude and luridly clad in the next. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Then he stood up in the stern and delivered himself luridly on missionaries in general, and on this new kind, as represented by Blair and Cathie, in particular. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z Dan Morgan started to shout to his foreman and then swore luridly instead, for Lanky was pleased to drill him at five hundred yards, the bullet tearing a disconcerting hole in Dan's thigh. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z When the conversation again languished I produced some luridly coloured Japanese prints of the capture of Pekin by the Allied Troops, which I had bought in Tokio after the Boxer War. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z The shameless interference with the judicial system of Illinois about 1840 luridly illustrates the enslaving partisanship of that time. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z Instead of soap now we have a gigantic selection of luridly colored products augmented with every variety of additional germ killer imaginable. Essay: Small Fixes: The Simplest Health Solutions? It?s Complicated 2011-09-26T22:14:50Z Neutral ships being luridly decorated with painted colours and their names in enormous white letters, are easily recorded. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Morning broke at last, and the wind went down, the sun rose and shone luridly over the heaving waters, and they stood together on the sea-beach—alone! Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures 2011-08-31T02:01:32.837Z A city official of Spokane who had fished at Jim's canyon sometime in the nineties characterized him to me as the most luridly picturesque liar in the North-west. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z The objects of our recent ardent longings reveal themselves, most luridly sometimes, as dangers, deadlocks, fetters, hopeless labyrinths, from which we have barely escaped. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z It was an article of luridly intemperate style, dissolute grammar, and gaudy rhetoric. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Everything was thickly peppered with ashes and the sun shone luridly through the smoke. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z "Good to come back to, isn't it?" he said, glancing at the sea, athwart which the track of the sunset beat luridly. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z It ran along the wires, limning each stay luridly. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z Within, the firelight glowed luridly on the burnished barrels of the weapons, hardly penetrating the gloomy corners of the hut. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z “This is a land of surprises,” Haslam had said, and indeed if ever words had been vividly, literally and luridly borne out, here was an instance. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z The question he had to wrestle with was, should he stop it, knowing the “Hell fer Sartin” the Democratic orators in the United States would at once luridly describe as “broke loose” in the Philippines? The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z His face was a fiery red, and the freckles shone luridly through the glow. The Turn of the Tide The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem 2011-06-14T02:00:18.357Z She put out her hands as if to ward off the picture that rose luridly to her eyes. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z A blurred, half-naked, grisly monster sprawled on its loathsome haunches before them,—a thing topped with a blood-mottled, hideous head, made frightful by two luridly igneous, horrible eyes. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z We're reminded of the 2005 Alaska Airlines incident, when an amateur blogger's luridly overblown account of a decompression landed him in the New York Times and on "Good Morning America." Southwest feels the pressure 2011-04-04T15:01:00Z Mr. Darcy was but a phantom, far back in the mists—his own dark efforts had utterly extinguished every ray of romance, in the false light of which he had luridly shone. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:19.937Z The latter was now swearing luridly but feebly. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The room now dark, the night luridly visible outside, the window so desperately pulled open took on new outlines.... Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z The strange horns and luridly coloured throat-pouches of tropical lizards are familiar to all visitors in equatorial climates, and they are confined exclusively to the male sex. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z It was dark when he reached London, and in the close August night the street-lamps seemed to have lost all their sparkle, seemed to glow luridly like the sinister lamps of a dream. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Listen to this," he added, unfolding a newspaper and reading: "'A luridly ludicrous exhibition of maudlin mush,' Ach Gott, what you think of that? A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life Her hair was luridly red, but many persons would have called it beautiful. The Crimson Sweater Both narratives are colored by piracy, bloodshed and mystery, that of Cocos Island perhaps the more luridly romantic of the two by reason of an earlier association with the English buccaneers of Dampier's crew. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day Tex swore luridly, too tense to realize what a fool the sheriff was making of him. The Orphan All that was left of Maurice was the fire he had kindled, the fire of passion that, lying dormant since his desertion, was now burning luridly in Jenny's heart. Carnival He stopped in the work once to look out over the roofs, glowing luridly under a half moon. Ewing\\'s Lady The thunder of the wild war-dance floated across the intervening miles of space, and the misty glare of many fires luridly outlined the distant mountain slopes. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War He yelled at the top of his voice; yelled and swore bitterly: "QUIT IT!" being the expurgated gist of his luridly profane protests. Triplanetary As he listened to the sheriff’s story he paced back and forth in the small room and swore luridly, kicking at everything in sight, except the sheriff. The Orphan “You would not do murder, surely, Adrian?” she said, the narrative she had heard only that morning rising luridly before her mind. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion The yellow light flared luridly on the white snow-flakes, and yet it dazzled her and Tommy as it flashed on them from the reflectors. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories The glare shone luridly on his sightless eyeballs, and as I noticed his unwinking lids I realized as never before what it was to be blind in the midst of sunshine. The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock The first thing Wyatt saw when he entered was the foot glowing luridly in the green light of the panel. The Book A small spiral stairway led downward some two levels, opening into a great, luridly lighted room. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 We hurried along on foot, and a minute or two later we entered the Jewish quarter and were in the midst of a hellish scene, lighted luridly by the glare of the burning houses. The Red Symbol Below them at an immense depth lay the raging sea--luridly illuminated by the moon which looked out from the storm-rent clouds. Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. The air was thick with death-dealing missiles, and the whole atmosphere lit up luridly from the firing of cannon, the bursting of shell and the flash of the rifle. Lee's Last Campaign And in the middle of it all Janet came in, and curled herself up in a corner, and forecast luridly and inconsolably the possible fate of her friends, the nurses in the "Flandria." A Journal of Impressions in Belgium Yes, uncle, but only psychological incident—they want luridly exciting episodes for a real thriller. I'll Leave It To You A Light Comedy In Three Acts As he looked at the fire, luridly reflected in the snow, Marie approached him and fell upon her knees. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 12, 1890 W—— kept the chair in his studio, and my informant half laughingly, half seriously remarked that no doubt the chair was thoroughly saturated with the wave-thoughts from W——'s luridly fertile brain. Byways of Ghost-Land I leave him, therefore, burning luridly and unsubdued, and pass on to Allison. A Modern Symposium The thin sunlight darkened; and with its lowering, the red spot of Jupiter glared more luridly ahead of them. The Red Hell of Jupiter The guards made gestures which were all too clear, all too luridly descriptive of the manner of death which awaited him. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 Northrup drew a chair to the window and the red flashes lighted his face luridly. At the Crossroads "Have you been eavesdropping?" cried Iris, springing to her feet, her black eyes flashing luridly. Pretty Madcap Dorothy Or, How She Won a Lover It gleamed luridly, almost red, in its depth of yellow. The Hound From The North Nor had he any choice but to listen to the luridly narrated facts. The Twins of Suffering Creek Behind it, and in a direct line with the winking flame in the Great Spot, another space denizen glowed luridly, startlingly, out of the blackness beyond, whirled, and shot down the long invisible path. Pirates of the Gorm From this comes the hard cruelty that flares forth luridly at times. Rosinante to the Road Again In the vault beneath, Captain Brand struck a light and set fire to a torch, which blazed out luridly, and illumined the dark excavation and passages like day. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life My imagination saw too clearly Quarriar himself dictating its luridly romantic phraseology. Ghetto Comedies Here and there, luridly illuminating the wild scene, blazed a smoking torch of a member of the Blake Marching Club. Counsel for the Defense Then he clipped a luridly illustrated advertisement of a nerve-medicine out of his newspaper and pinned it on my bedroom door, after I had ignored his tentative knock thereon the night before. The Prairie Child At times these gleams would mantle the sky with all the soft beauty of moonlight, and at others they would dart angrily and luridly athwart the horizon. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge The mate's impatience flared luridly as he ordered the gang-plank replaced. A Man of Two Countries The desperate perils presented by the conjectural and largely non-existent mine were thenceforth to loom largely and luridly in the telegrams that went up to Pretoria. The Dop Doctor A perfectly cut dinner jacket proved that the strange visitor was no unclean dweller in the Paris slums: no apache such as the Princess had read terrifying descriptions of in luridly illustrated newspapers. Fantômas A voice from the far end of the room luridly requested that the conversation should cease. The Rough Road "Do what you please," was in effect Winter's luridly adjectived answer. The Motor Pirate What if there was champagne in it after all, so Miss Mapp luridly conjectured! Miss Mapp Then, in the middle of one awful night, the darkness of his mental state had been luridly illuminated by the conviction that she had joined Slabberts. The Dop Doctor For not one of the stories that luridly portrayed him in the r�le of a ruthless killer and outlaw was true. 'Drag' Harlan This time he had reason on his side; for angry clouds were heaped about the setting sun; and the orb itself was peering luridly between parted curtains of crimson rain. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest The hands of the fourth mate gripped the skylight ledge convulsively, and his black eyes shone luridly with passion. Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 The pantaloon is one of the most luridly tragic figures in art or in life. The Green Carnation The deeds of the Western sheriff have for the most part gone unchronicled, or have luridly been set forth in fiction as incidents of blood, interesting only because of their bloodiness. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Beyond the circle that the firelight brought luridly to life, the buttes in the moonlight had their own still magic. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Before him, the lightning luridly showed up the trees on the shore, writhing horridly; and the wet mast and the guy ropes were often wreathed in faint, bluish flames. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest As the light spread luridly over the dismal room it exposed to our hero's gaze the unmistakable signs that the place was to be used for the administration of tortures. Under the Rebel's Reign There was the most luridly bright of all possible flashes. Scrimshaw The ill-trimmed lamp smoked luridly, and the light that filtered through its blackened chimney illumined dimly the interior of the little room. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest In another a little twelve-year-old girl was nursing two tinies, and had a cluster of others at her feet while she read "Jack and the Beanstalk" from a luridly illustrated rag-book. Nights in London He mounted the steps, and, assisted by the young officer and Johnson, descended to the boat; but before Johnson went down, he peered over the rail at the two mates, grinning luridly. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea By the fitful illumination, I rode tremulously to the old head-quarters at Black Creek, and as I conjectured, the depot and train were luridly consuming. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War The deafening roar of an explosion resounded in the corridor as a brilliant light was luridly reflected from somewhere behind him. This World Must Die! It is Gianni; to his flashing eyes A fierce deep hatred leaps up from his heart, As lightning, which forebodes the nearing storm, Leaps luridly above the midnight hills. Stories in Verse He painted quite luridly the purgation he anticipated as likely for such as would dare to wreck a child's education, and possibly her life for a color-scruple. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales In front of the Conciergerie, whose portal was lit luridly by two torches, a delighted audience of Sans-culottes received his approach with clapping. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette THE flare of the Flagg camp fires painted the mists luridly; the vapor rolled sluggishly through the tree tops and faded into the blackness of the night. Joan of Arc of the North Woods All the plain was smoky or luridly lit; a vast Shield of Mars, with War in action. The Long Roll Oh he saw it now all lucidly—if not rather luridly—and thereby the more tragically. The Outcry Its effect had been not in what it simply stated, but in what, under his secretly disintegrating criticism, it almost luridly symbolised. The Finer Grain Then again the half-sane interval darkened luridly into hallucination, but now it was a new hallucination. The Tyranny of Weakness Far to left and right yet burned the forest fires set by the shells, flaring luridly in the intense blackness that characterized those nights. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond Each reflector apparently focussed upon an object in the center, a helix which seemed to writhe luridly in that flaming focus, glowing with a nacreous, opalescent green light. Skylark Three But he told luridly of the thing that had come ashore, and of its destructiveness. Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43 Then into the sky leaped another ray, narrow, luridly green. Wandl the Invader Unquestionably, he could express his limited thoughts in words luridly strange. Trail's End When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary watch, he turns his eyes toward the southern cross, burning luridly above the tempest-vexed ocean. The Debs Decision The fleeting sanity was vanishing—"The hearthstone—her—down at Trouble——" The candle flickered up luridly. A Son of the Hills This, then, is what the dark canopy meant, hanging so luridly over the fire-lit forest. The Drummer Boy Boyle explained luridly that the American was doing a balancing act on the rail eight feet above his head. The Captain of the Kansas This is the moment when the storm-clouds are gathering over the face of the sun, causing its light to gleam luridly through the thick covering. Van Dyck A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation The elements now came to the aid of the Christians, a furious storm arising whose thunders reverberated among the rocks, while lightnings flashed luridly in the eyes of the terrified troops. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII In his dreams the scene Billy Falstar had so luridly described was enacted again and again, until he felt as if he, Jude, had been the onlooker. Joyce of the North Woods It seemed to him that he had either been fighting fire or riding at high speed through luridly lighted forest glades for years and years, and that it would never stop. The Boy With the U. S. Foresters Two of the eight little missiles flashed luridly, almost together, where the radar-pips showed the rocket to be. Space Tug At long last only the topmost peaks of the Apennines blazed luridly against a background of stars whose light seemed feeble by comparison. Operation: Outer Space These were stated baldly, briefly, but for that very quality they rang luridly dramatic. The Shield of Silence A few added words of luridly picturesque intent gave force and colour to this declaration. Joyce of the North Woods Away in the distance two villages were in flames, luridly lighting up some corners of the scene. In the Field (1914-1915) The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry It was then you could see the skies of Southern Manitoba luridly aflame at night with wheat stacks it didn't pay to thresh. The Canadian Commonwealth It swam among all the myriads of myriads of suns, burning luridly and in a terrible silence, with visibly writhing prominences rising from the edge of its disk. Operation: Outer Space The rays fall now here, now there, upon the stage; are luridly red or vividly green; but neither mix nor pervade. Adventures in Criticism The others—that crowd of rough, tough men—clapped me respectfully upon the back, felt gingerly of my biceps, and swore loudly and luridly I was the best man in the port. The Blood Ship The terror inspired in the rude English mind by the mark and the woodland, the home of wild beasts and of hostile ghosts, of deadly spirits and of fierce enemies, gleams luridly through every line. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain If he was glaring luridly at the irrepressible Freddie, he was not alone in his gloom. The Husbands of Edith The great glare, though it shed its light luridly upon all outside, was not enough to find things by within. The Other Girls They constitute luridly powerful pictures of a debased and shamelessly corrupt condition of society. English Satires But in April the ladders striped her house-front, and soon her windows and doors began to start luridly out of their surroundings of mellowed tiles and brick. Joanna Godden It was a long, pale, thin face, cold and rigid as death, and only luridly lighted up by two dark, deep-set eyes, fixed, burning, and of a terrible intensity. The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Finally he laid violent hands upon his truck and retreated into the hall, swearing, as became his age, more luridly than the bellboys. New Faces As for the Bishops, they will talk daggers as luridly as the rest, but they will not even threaten to use any. The Open Secret of Ireland She did not look quite at Lady Knollys, but straight before her, rather downward, and very luridly. Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh The darkness was lit up luridly by the shooting flames of the burning house. Mavericks "Well, you shall have it now, daughter," he said luridly, pressing his lips to the little blushing cheek. Holidays at Roselands They foregathered in the streets, and with arms fixed resolutely akimbo denounced the contemplated outrage as a monstrous tyranny—enough to make them "turn Boer," indeed, as one lady luridly put it. The Siege of Kimberley The mania which had haunted earlier generations of her family looked out luridly from her eyes. Hillsboro People Yet the glare of the conflagration, below, was luridly shuddering through the fog, painting it all a dull and awful red. The Air Trust His brain was a smouldering furnace in which anxiety and anger strove luridly for the mastery. The Knave of Diamonds The major, peering down through the trap, swore luridly. The Flying Legion A moment more, and the vivid glare of the fires flared luridly through the wild tangle of the undergrowth. Round Anvil Rock A Romance On the eighth day I noticed, stretched right across the south-eastern horizon, a region of purple vapour which luridly obscured the face of the sun: and day after day I saw it steadily brooding there. The Purple Cloud She stopped, aware that the life of the man beside her was one of the unpaid debts so luridly present to her mind. The Bent Twig There was little definite information upon which to base the daily stories that were luridly hurled into type. Midnight Brady, recovered from the first shock, swore loud and luridly. Out of Time's Abyss The background of nearly all was the sky by night, the dark night of the soul, with wild clouds swept by strange winds of hell and lit luridly by an uneasy moon. Of Human Bondage The rocky promontory, the weird, giant chestnut tree, the open plateau, and beyond, the stormy heavens, were all luridly clear in the flash of lightning. The Last Trail The heartsick excitement of a man on the crest of some moral crisis looked out luridly from his eyes. The Bent Twig No yelling, drunken Hooligan could have been more fluent, more luridly diffuse. The Crimson Blind No one mentioned the fact that he had been hurt; it was not spoken of, though they wished mightily he would tell them the story they had read luridly in the public prints. The Gentleman from Indiana The street-lamps gleamed luridly from their stands, serving only to make the dreary darkness visible. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 The sun had broken through the clouds, but shone luridly, giving the sea a leaden tint. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 The lightnings play luridly, fiercely above her, Illuming with horror the wind-cloven waves! Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Thus luridly began, I may say, a scandal that was to be far-reaching in its dreadful effects. Ruggles of Red Gap After we had advanced about two hundred steps, we saw the glaring eyes of the wounded beast, which gleamed forth like two fiery balls, reflecting most luridly the light of our torches. Sanders' Union Fourth Reader In the blackness of that hour a disk of light shone out luridly against the tapestry of memory. The Brass Bowl "Warm work!" he panted, grinning luridly at the boy, and he brought up with a bang against the lugger. The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea It is the glare of the scarlet letter itself, and all that it luridly reveals and weirdly implies, which produced the tale. Literary and Social Essays He thought bitterly that no one knew better than himself how luridly wicked Boston was, and that there was probably not a soul in it more helplessly anxious to get out of it. The Minister's Charge These facts show luridly against the sky of woman's world, but perhaps few men know what purgatorial fires they light in many a woman's heart to-day. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman After a course of American "tough" fiction, of which "Susan Lenox" remains most luridly in the memory, I had a terror of all professional upholders of the law. Roving East and Roving West Now that the night had fallen, and the stars shone down upon him, and the red of the flame luridly illumined him, he showed more grand and venerable than ever. Venetian Life My room mates had been drinking and gambling overnight, and they swore luridly at the intruder for disturbing them. Children of the Bush The preamble to the bill set forth, luridly enough, the conclusions arrived at by the King and the vicar-general, and summed up the grounds for them. England under the Tudors At that moment a great expanse of plaster fell from the ceiling some thirty feet away and the flames glared luridly through the corridor, making everything for a brief moment as light as day. The New Boy at Hilltop Caricatures, luridly tragic or gaily comic, in which the misconceptions of the author blend with the preconceptions of the reader and achieve success, are, of course, common enough. A Modern Utopia For a few moments longer the fire burned on, and then the cloud with its torrents settled down upon it, and the luridly luminous point became opaque. A Day of Fate The criminologist was not left to wonder as to the identity of "Pinkie," for an older man, walking behind a red-headed girl in a luridly modern gown, approached the table with the absent guest. The Voice on the Wire This luridly extravagant picture, however, did not appal her. The Point of View Now as the light faded the wreaths of smoke which hung over the distant Fire-mountain began to glow luridly. Ayesha, the Return of She The page was luridly decorated with a swarm of entomological curiosities—winged bipeds supposedly representing her fatuous admirers. The Auction Block The jewelled scarab, set as a brooch on her bosom, flashed luridly in the moon, and in her black eyes there was a similar lurid gleam. Ziska Then suddenly, behind McNamara's men, the night glared luridly as though a great furnace-door had opened and then clanged shut, while with it came a hoarse thudding roar that silenced the rifle play. The Spoilers It contained a bright new rag carpet, a luridly painted wooden settee, a sewing-machine, and several uninviting wooden chairs. Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch He induced her to quit looking over her shoulder at the great torch that lighted luridly the heavens above the deserted town. When Egypt Went Broke Two blast-furnaces sent up their flare and lit luridly the devastated scene. Demos With night the roar of the tempest increased; the rain fell with a dull, uninterrupted patter, the gale swept furiously on, and the heaving, foaming waters of the bay gleamed luridly beneath the sheet-lightning. Beulah Soon the street-lamps glimmered luridly in the mist, and then it required a keen eyesight indeed to see even for a moderate distance. Monsieur Lecoq The English gunners stand with their portfires ready, which are seen glowing luridly in the daylight. The Dynasts From the first my presence in this luridly adventurous galley had been incongruous; I would get back with all despatch to the Ritz and the orderly world it typified. The Firefly of France In an instant the fighting platform on the prow was become a raging, seething hell of battle luridly illumined by the ruddy glow from the lights aboard the Silver Heron. The Sea-Hawk The glare shone luridly on his sightless eyeballs, and as she noticed his unwinking lids, she realized as never before what it was to be blind in the midst of sunshine. The Golden Slipper : and other problems for Violet Strange Then swiftly, somewhat luridly, there leaped into our comprehension and our interest that strange country long loosely held under our flag, the region of the Plains, the region which we now call the Old West. The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West "What are the luridly smoky lucubrations of that fellow to the clear grasp of my intellect?" he thought. Under Western Eyes While we were discussing the meeting of the night before which, I learned, had been luridly reported in the morning papers, Mr. Vedder suddenly turned to me and asked earnestly: "Are you really a Socialist?" The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment On the walls were various depressing maps with the name of a tourist agency luridly upon them, and there were also some pictures of hotels with their rates-in francs-printed beneath. Active Service Of days and nights it is demonstrative, That, like some aged star, gleam luridly. Poems — Volume 1 |
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