Word: horror
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...religious paper in the West throws up its hands in horror at the ungodliness of Eastern students. "Nineteen hundred panes of glass," says one of them, "have been broken by Yale students in the two years the Woolsey was president...
...following are some of the prices paid for "applause" by French actors and actresses : Ordinary applause, it appears, stands at 5f; prolonged applause, 10f; prolonged and noisy applause, 20f; three rounds of applause, 25f; simple recall, 25f; unlimited recalls, 50f; for appearing horror-struck, 5f; murmurs of affright, as if the power to applaud were lost, 15f; a moan, followed by applause at the end of a scene of murder, 12 1/2f; ordinary laughter, 5f; bursts of laughter, 10f; exclamations - "Oh, how droll!" etc., 15f; superlative exclamations - "It is simply magnificent!" "It is unequalled!" 20f. The sifflet a succes...
...Desist, I pray thee! If thou lov'st me, cease," cried the Lamprey, as he leaped terror-stricken from his chair. "Me frozen marrow creeps backwards in me veins! Oh! awfullest agony of horror, now I know thee!" and, leaving him there crouched in delirious frenzy behind a Tabular View, the Ibex gracefully poised his wings and circled towards Carl...
...tried to blot out from my remembrance the vision of his face as I had seen it four months previous, - the face of Stephen Maymore's murderer. I could not: that unseen presence of guilt was with me night and day. Enough of this: I live over again the horror of that time...
...whole world was whirling away from me, and I was standing alone in space; I thought - if my startled brain did not in that first moment of incredulous and tragic bewilderment refuse to think at all - that I was certainly, must surely be, absolutely mad. A sickening sense of horror engulfed me, as I stood, looking dumbly at this man, - her brother. Oh! could not forget that! I pressed my hands to my temples, and so stood, looking - looking...