Verb (used with object) : He was appalled by the damage from the fire. I am appalled at your mistakes. From Dictionary.com.
The murdrous cries the stag appal. From Wordnik.com. [Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine] Reference
The murderous cries the stag appal. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Garland from the Best Poets] Reference
From lips unblest -- strange sounds mine ear appal. From Wordnik.com. [Poems (1828)] Reference
Wherefore art thou here, if terrors can appal thee?. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal!. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
But I am not going to appal you with domestic details. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
And your shouts, would the souls of the heathen appal?. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
Or to appal anyone you might be giving a lift to in your car. From Wordnik.com. [In The Gloaming In The Post! « In The Gloaming Podcasts] Reference
But this withering fire did not appal these young Australians. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
The scenes presented were enough to appal the stoutest nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
Yet all these horrors powerless are those high hearts to appal!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
The object is not it seems to me to horrify, appal and disgust. From Wordnik.com. [How to shock your reader] Reference
I am blinded by futureless prospects which appal and terrify me. From Wordnik.com. [Futurelessness (rev)] Reference
Hoarse sounding like a demon's voice, which the stoutest hearts appal!. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Dark shadows there are, but they hide no mysteries to appal and unman. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
I have crackpot theories about football that would appal proper footie fans. From Wordnik.com. [Dead-Drop Gorgeous « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
Underneath, that woman is someone that would appal people if they only knew her. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Valor]
Was this all a horrid dream, a fearful jest of the summer's night to appal my soul? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Stephen Hardcastle is not an admirer, Hannah said, the very suggestion seeming to appal her. From Wordnik.com. [The House at Riverton] Reference
The great number and variety of such inquiries as are propounded by readers should not appal one. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
Can no longer, Death, appal us, is so well known, has given us one of the best modern versions of this. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody] Reference
No direful visions appal their happy souls, nor terrific ghosts of quondam hours stand arrayed before them. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Its behaviour is simply unacceptable and should appal everyone who wants the Met to be a representative force. From Wordnik.com. [It is time to stand up to those who want to stop minorities joining the Met] Reference
Sand calls "the sublime martyrdom of maternity" would appal the wife of the humblest pauper of a New England village. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
As if in sudden madness, she wildly stretches out her hands as if to push away the thronging phantoms which appal her. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The media organization has a website, and a name: Appalshop (appal = short for appalachian, has nothing to do with Apple Computers). From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: August 15, 2004 - August 21, 2004 Archives] Reference
The machine guns were certainly chronic, the shindy enough to appal. From Wordnik.com. [Rhymes of a Red Cross Man] Reference
What will go on here will appal those who are opposed to animal experiments. From Wordnik.com. [Primates in the News] Reference
Nothing could appal the mind so much as the contemplation of eternal solitude. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
And she's playing a character who's going to fascinate and intrigue and appal us. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The inability of cranks to understand the papers they so enthusiastically cite never ceases to amaze and appal me. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The moon o 'the dark by his neglect my spirit doth appal And to the watching of his stars hath made my eyelids thrall. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
Foreign secretary William Hague says the "medieval" planned stoning to death for adultery of a woman in Iran would "disgust and appal". From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to FTSE 100 may come to India; Nifty may go to UK] Reference
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