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  • Oh, horror! (10)
  • The horror of it! (12)
  • Emilia faltered in horror. (10)
  • Jane heard them with horror. (4)
  • Lavender half rose in horror. (8)
  • A terrible horror clutched him. (13)
  • For him, a horror cramped his limbs. (10)
  • Horror had reached its supreme point. (12)
  • Then, in sudden horror, he stood still. (8)
  • Her mother had a horror of that curtain. (10)
  • He took the vacant place, in horror of it. (10)
  • He took the vacant place, in horror of it. (22)
  • Robert burst out in horror of the prospect. (10)
  • The innkeeper fell back in admiring horror. (10)
  • A cold horror had struck her, and she had gone. (12)
  • The horror of the moment to all who stood around! (4)
  • The horror seemed to spread over his whole face. (12)
  • Salvolo started from her in a horror of amazement. (10)
  • The absurd horror of the situation overwhelmed him. (9)
  • The stark horror simply caused his lower jaw to drop. (12)
  • Fear and horror brought her to the brink of the grave. (12)
  • Catherine, for a few moments, was motionless with horror. (4)
  • To the greater number it was a moment of absolute horror. (4)
  • A dark astonishment and horror were revealed in his face. (12)
  • Astonishment, apprehension, and even horror, oppressed her. (4)
  • Drawn again to that horror, they saw it strangely augmented. (1)
  • Think of the horror of a loveless marriage, however gilded! (10)
  • You are full of horror and will not confess it to yourself. (12)
  • He saw himself with horror, all bristly, and in soiled linen. (8)
  • And such horror seized on her that she could hardly walk away. (8)
  • They were sick with horror, while he examined; but he was not hopeless. (4)
  • Thus Joy clapped hands a second time, and Horror deepened its shadows. (10)
  • No reluctance, no horror, no feminine, shall I say, no modest loathings? (4)
  • Rhoda dressed the question for him in the terror of contemptuous horror. (22)
  • And he felt with a sort of horror that he must begin his struggle over again. (8)
  • A lifetime of repression served him in the half-realised horror of that moment. (8)
  • But the architect still stood there in the alley, rooted in horror, stupefied. (13)
  • He had a natural horror of any sort of scandal, and he was very fond of Hilary. (8)
  • Mrs. Leighton tried to look unspeakable horror; but she broke down and laughed. (9)
  • All look at her first with surprise, then with offence, then almost with horror. (8)
  • He looked at her with a sort of horror, and, without a word, went out of the room. (8)
  • The horror of those minutes revived as he went over the story, and he paused wearily. (13)
  • I sprung over to the dressing-glass, which had been replaced, and oh: horror of horrors! (6)
  • Their legal status was, as it were, a goad, spurring them on to show their horror of it. (8)
  • Her nervous horror calmed as the feeling came to her of the palpable weakness of the hand. (10)
  • She, who had made a love-match which had been successful, had a horror of unhappy marriages. (8)
  • He forced her to witness the cold-blooded murder of her men, so that she swooned with horror. (19)
  • The Viceroy, veteran soldier as he was, and used to deeds of violence, shuddered with horror. (19)
  • La Corne, the French commandant, was filled {187} with shame and horror at this treacherous murder. (19)
  • Horror shrouds it, and shame reddens through the folds to tell of innermost horror. (10)
  • She passed only from feelings of sickness to shudderings of horror; and from hot fits of fever to cold. (4)
  • I jumped hastily from my bed, and looked out, and there, to my horror, perceived the regiment under arms. (6)
  • In brief, they must try to arouse his horror, or indignation, or pity, or simply his lust for slaughter. (16)
  • She answered to all, No, he had made her realize the horror of it so much that she was glad to give it up. (9)
  • Her game was for one hundred thousand pounds, the happiness of her brother, and the concealment of a horror. (10)
  • Horror shook him so that a gurgling sound which arose in his throat was throttled before it reached his lips. (12)
  • His fleshly horror of pain and ugliness was now disciplined, his spiritual dislike of them forced into a philosophy. (8)
  • With the slip of that last inch he felt he would have passed at once into oblivion, without the long horror of a fall. (8)
  • Sir Meeson Corby wrings his frilled hands to depict the horror of the hands of that tramp the young lord had her from. (10)
  • What he does may arouse the horror of the morally immature; I, too, I confess, find the motivation obscure and difficult. (12)
  • It doubled her horror, that she should echo the man: but it proved that she was no better than be: only some years younger. (10)
  • It smote him with horror and anger; but he was much too manly to betray these actual sentiments, and continued to dissemble. (22)
  • I see him torn between it, and his cold north-country horror of his feelings; his life with her is an unconscious torture to him. (8)
  • She was in the power of a ruffian who maltreated her and beat her; whenever she thinks of him she shakes with terror and horror. (12)
  • Devotion; truth, too, and beauty, rare and moving, in its setting of darkness and horror, in that nest of vice and of disorder!… (8)
  • She nodded, and horror stirred within old Jolyon, the horror of one who has never known a struggle with desperation. (8)
  • Now these Jesuits, although professing Christianity and brotherly love, held in horror anybody who did not think exactly as they did. (19)
  • They were full of reason, conscience, horror, full of impatience, contempt, revolt; but they did not love the masses of their fellow-men. (8)
  • He began to mount forthwith, but amazed by a sudden ringing of shot, he stopped, asking himself in horror whether it could be an execution. (10)
  • With screams for the lamp, and cries that he was suffering slow murder, he underwent a paroxysm in the effort to conceal his abject horror. (10)
  • The gracious young wife was overwhelmed with horror, which had doubtless prevented her return, unless her absence was due to departure from the city. (5)
  • Not Lydia only, but all were concerned in it; and after the first exclamations of surprise and horror, Mr. Gardiner promised every assistance in his power. (4)

Also see sentences for: abhorrence, consternation, dread.

Definition of horror:

  • horror, hor’ur, n. a shuddering: excessive fear: that which excites horror. | adjs. horr’or-strick’en, -struck, struck with horror. | the horrors, extreme depression: delirium tremens. (0)

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