Oh, why did you insult my mother, disgrace me, and horrifyall these people to-day!
Georgia bent her head in token of acquiescence, and taking up another piece of paper, began carelessly drawing a scaffold, with herself hanging, to horrify her companion.
This, no doubt, would horrify the acute, analytical minds of the Latin races.
The man's impudence and really handsome face gave Fred a wicked desire to accept, and horrify the Lieutenant and Tillie; but one glance at that little matron told her it would not do.
Strange words seemed to be effervescing in Horace North's breast, and he set his teeth hard, for he felt that if he spoke he should say something which would horrify the old housekeeper and startle himself.
Hartley, you horrify me," said Mary, after she had listened to her brother's account of his visit.
Something that wilt horrify you, just as it did me," replied Beresteyn, who spoke breathlessly as if under stress of grave excitement.
Was he true--a man who had acted in all simplicity and honour--and she a woman with a bad imagination which, had jumped at something enough to horrify a man?
Hence Valetta is very gay when night comes on; fancy Chinese lanterns hang in the streets, music is heard on every hand, and laughing, good-natured crowds jostle elbows in a way that would horrify a high caste Hindoo.
He has continued to advance in the interim, and is now quite close, though not moving out of the straight line in the center of the street--a repulsive looking object truly, and enough to horrify the bravest.
For that matter, I have under my inspection half the kitchens in the Quarter, and the things I witness in them might surprise or horrify more than one woman who imagines herself mistress in her own house.
What a strange present on the part of the Bishop to a young seminarist," he ventured to say as he turned over the leaves of the superb Tacitus, whose gilt edges seemed to horrify him.
I suppose I seemed to her like the mad women who were just then rising up to horrify the respectability of England--a phenomenon of Nature too portentous to be comprehended, or even to be contemplated, by a gentlewoman of the South!
Why, with their souls full of these ideas their faces would soon be as hard--oh, you horrify me!
I do understand you," said Damier, "but you horrify me none the less.
I horrify you because I am a creature thwarted, distorted; nothing is more ugly or repulsive--but if I had had a chance!
My poor child, it would but horrify you," said Uncle Edward.
It may be some mere trifle she's concealing: something that would horrify the Farlows, but that I shouldn't see any harm in.
Of course I shall say things now and then that will horrify your dear delightful parents--I shall shock them awfully, I warn you.
Don't I horrify you now when you see me in convulsions on the floor?
You think I shall horrify you when my face has turned blue," he said with a faint smile.
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