Word: aghast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foxhunters, that there must be no smoking while "in the pink" (dressed in the scarlet hunt coat). Last week, Prince Henry, the King's third son, absentmindedly pulled out his pipe and lit it while waiting for the hounds to pick up the scent. Members of the hunt looked aghast, but their amazement quickly changed to delight; and in five minutes some 20 pipes were going. Thus was another precedent created...
...that night, to kill the last of her love for Ernley. In the morning, she would wake up empty of love, a wanton again. Daniel Shearer sat by the window, wrestled all night with his soul. He was, he realized at last, the kind of man whom women sacrificed. Aghast at her angry love, he sent her back to Ernley. Things like love were for the Crown; marriage was enough for the George...
Approach these honest bones, nor stare aghast...
Alexander P. Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Spain: "I was reported to have breakfasted in company with Douglas and Mary Fairbanks at the famed Armenonville restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. When we had finished, we three looked at each other aghast: No money! We explained to the head waiter, telling who we were. He was unimpressed, skeptical, obdurate. We needed 180 francs (at par, $34; now $9.50) for our breakfast bill. Finally, I dug a $20 note from among papers in my wallet...
Spinning high in the air in the first play of the third quarter the ball sailed neatly between the goal posts after leaving the foot of Klevenov and made the first Middlebury score. While Middlebury rooters cheered, the Crimson stands looked on aghast or good humoredly applauded, but he visitors had not yet finished. A little later Klevenev failed to kick a goal from the University's 48 yard line. Unfortunately, Howe fumbled the ball a few plays later and Klevenev again had his chance. Standing on the Crimson's 29 yard line, he sent the ball over the cross...