'Which I call horridly mean of him,' protested Horatio, who had come across the fields expressly to announce this fact to Ida. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf] Reference
To use her own expression, it was "horridly" dirty work. From Wordnik.com. [A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods] Reference
He is quite ill-tempered now, and so horridly idle. From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
The problem in reverse is more horridly interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Time Enough For Love]
They were all in development only horridly expensive. From Wordnik.com. [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Did AT&T predict the future back in 93?] Reference
Her face was the colour of lard and she smiled horridly. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Ended up watching 'Brokeback' and getting horridly depressed. From Wordnik.com. [eros-archer Diary Entry] Reference
The recumbent figure, still recognizable, was horridly mutilated. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
What a devil have we below, quoth Jupiter, that howls so horridly?. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
And horridly glared their hazy eyes, their tails wagged to and fro. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
The presence of his horridly lethal pet kept the curious well away. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
Palms are very numerous, but they are generally small and horridly spiny. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
'A cheerful glass, then, 'said Sir Sedley,' you think horridly intolerable? '. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
White-pelted phantoms, growling horridly, fought over some undefinable object. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
"Get them!" this horridly ridiculous thing shouted, and brushed aside a napkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Tower]
When he dances or is on horseback he looks very well, but he walks horridly ill. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
Suppose that some horridly sharp boy should 'stump' me with 'Davies' Arithmetic? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The dog was covered with sacking, but its tail, horridly dead, stuck out at one end. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Suddenly I was bare-chested -- horridly exposed for what I was, and suddenly shamed. From Wordnik.com. [kuniklos Diary Entry] Reference
But the person who had gained most by this affair is Dantin, who is horridly avaricious. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
It raced in pursuit of him, moving with horridly fluid loping movements of its lower limbs. From Wordnik.com. [Nor Crystal Tears]
It was horridly improper; and Tom ought to have told you so, if you did n't know any better. From Wordnik.com. [An Old-Fashioned Girl] Reference
It was one of those shouts that are horridly distinct even when we cannot hear what is shouted. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
I did about -- although this man was guilty, and horridly guilty, and did the most heinous things. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 3, 2007] Reference
In refusing to comb his hair like a prig, he did not go to the extreme of making himself horridly uncomely. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
To learn that this 12-member family named the Ragunda (ph) family had actually been killed horridly like this. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 29, 2008] Reference
Besides the seditions of the Jews, made horridly bloody with their mutual slaughter, and other storms of war in the. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
It was formerly the custom to swear horridly on all occasions; the King detested this practice, and soon abolished it. From Wordnik.com. [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]
Ernie looked at Alleyn, blinked and opened his mouth: but whether to speak or horridly to laugh again would never be known. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Although outbound file-sharing is horridly slow, sharing within the network is boss -- I can grab me an album every 2 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference
If this be the case, the watchmen in the moon must be horridly over-worked, and daily labourers must be fatigued in proportion. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference
The evidence is piling up, yet almost four billion tax dollars have hemorrhaged from our budget to prop up a horridly flawed system. From Wordnik.com. [A Glance Backward as We Gaze Forward: Review of] Reference
Our own very excellent gardening writer Adrian Higgins says that the hardy, dependable azalea is horridly overused as a foundation plant. From Wordnik.com. [The bad flowers] Reference
His brain felt horridly mechanical and rusted, yet as he sat in this airless room, something moved under the impact of Bendall's obscenity. From Wordnik.com. [Whispers Of Betrayal]
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