"Horrify" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... real facts of human experience is of the highest value to the world. It is one of God's witnesses to truth, that truth will out. Sooner or later, selfishness and sin will appear in their naked deformity, to horrify those who behold them; and in the end, justice and truth and love are certain to be made manifest in their natural beauty, to convince and to charm and to ...
— Our Master • Bramwell Booth
... you didn't forget the whole of it. I would if I were you, and quickly, lest you horrify some one else with it. You are too big to pose ...
— A Pessimist - In Theory and Practice • Robert Timsol
... With a horse like that too. He's pretending to be a great deal worse than he is, just to horrify you." ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... Pelides, only in the heel. The fellow's self invites assault; his crimes Will each bear killing twenty thousand times! Anon Creed Haymond—but the list is long Of names to point the moral of my song. Rogues, fools, impostors, sycophants, they rise, They foul the earth and horrify the skies— With Mr. Huntington (sole honest man In all the reek of that rapscallion clan) Denouncing Theft as hard as ...
— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce
... he will spout the last editorial of his favorite newspaper in favor of free trade and Mr. Cleveland. History? The Wall Street man rarely knows in what year Columbus discovered America, and would be in straits wild enough to horrify that talented arch-prig, Mr. Andrew Lang, if you mentioned either Cortes or Pizarro. Fiction? He admired Robinson Crusoe when a boy, and since then he has read a few translated volumes of Dumas the elder. Poetry? He doesn't like it ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various
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