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Sentences starting with hideous

Hideous sounds tortured the air--crackling, snapping, spitting sounds like the laughter of animals with steel throats. [11]

Sentences ending with hideous

Have you not yourself seen, even in your short life, that what is highest and greatest can in its excess, be all that is most hideous? [10]
It is coarse and hideous. [10]
It's hideous. [5]

Short sentences using hideous

A hideous picture! [10]

Sentences containing hideous two or more times

The hideous stuffy bed curtains and the more hideous imitation marble mantel were the two objects that held her glance. [9]

More example sentences with the word hideous in them

Then defend yourself, you hideous toad, or I will tread you down, if my foot does not fear to be soiled with your poison. [10]
As for the yellowness like a garment, that is too familiar to the eyes of all who have ever looked on the hideous mask of confluent variola. [3]
Gabinius followed him with a hideous smirk. [10]
How much more wholesome a picture of humanity than such stuff as the author of the "Night Thoughts" has left us: "Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart. [6]
Her feeble health, which was very evident, became her particularly ill when, as at this moment, the harsh acrimony of her embittered soul came to light with hideous plainness. [10]
The curse with which the patriarch had threatened him recurred to his mind; he could have fancied that the hot, stuffy, incense-laden air of the church was full of flapping daws and hideous bats. [10]
How hideous they were, how revolting they sounded! [10]
A stream of water trickled ceaselessly over the hideous face. [5]
Ameni, who too, was close behind the heart, started too and looked round on the author of this hideous laugh. [10]
Presently when he was asleep she came softly in with a hammer and drove a hideous tent-pen down through his brain! [5]
The dwarf was very much exasperated, and wanting somebody to wreak his ill-humour upon, determined to dart out suddenly, and favour Mrs Quilp with a gentle acknowledgment of her attention in making that hideous uproar. [12]
His body crashed upon the keys of the piano, producing a hideous discord. [11]
The call of tubas and bugles rang without ceasing through the great building, to the frequent accompaniment of the most horrible sound of all in this hideous spectacle--the heavy fall of a dead man dropping from above into the gulf. [10]
He had been told that it was to-morrow, and not to-day, that the hideous act would be accomplished; and it was a consolation to her to know that he was spared the agony of following her in fancy in her fearful progress. [10]
The Pequots used to come swarming up the hill, with hideous war-whoops, attacking the fort on all sides with great noise and a shower of balls. [4]
As it came to a halt directly opposite to where he stood, the dwarf pulled off his hat, and saluted the party with a hideous and grotesque politeness. [12]
They were going to a foreign land to fight, many of them to die, not in one of those adventurous campaigns of times gone by, but in the wet trenches or the hideous No Man's Land between. [9]
From time to time their hideous yell, or the whining laugh of the hyena, broke the stillness of the night. [10]
For the first time she had been brought face to face with life in hideous earnest, and when the singer went to look for her in her room, at dusk, he was startled to find her bright face clouded and her eyes dim with tears. [10]
Were these hideous thoughts to haunt him even by day? [10]
Not this hatred, this thirst for revenge, this blood, this persecution, and, as their hideous fruit, this terror, these horrible, cruel fears--" Here she was interrupted by the clatter of arms and rapping of hammers which came up from below. [10]
The idea that this great artist, whose sharp eye could so surely distinguish the hideous from the beautiful, should regard him as ill-favored, was odious to him. [10]
Only now and then did the thought of Caesar trouble for a moment the rapture of that hour, like a hideous form appearing out of distant clouds. [10]
A slight indisposition, then an hour of fever, then the hideous delirium, then--the Yellow Death! [5]
And there sat the young creature, whom she knew to be soft-hearted and gentle, smiling and with beaming eyes--though those eyes must have rested on the most hideous spectacle--looking as though the roll in her lap were the first enchanting raptures of a lover. [10]
It was like the table of some hideous orgy left uncleared, and one turned away disgusted from its broken fragments and muddy heeltaps. [6]
They were at the same time the first which were to show what he believed to be the true mission of art--a hideous hawker, hide in hand, praising his wares with open mouth, and the struggling Maenads. [10]
The baron allowed the hideous landlord to kiss his hand at parting, but Nicolas would not suffer him to touch his. [10]
Hope budded in the hearts of the old ministers, their pulses began to beat quicker, the scepter began to rise slowly, when: There was a hideous interruption! [5]
Then he dropped the hand that held the horoscope, saying with a shudder: "A hideous destiny. [10]
The genius of the great portrait-painter may to some extent overcome the disadvantages of contemporary costume, but if the costume of his period is hideous and lacks the essential lines of beauty, his work is liable to need the apology of quaintness. [4]
As it was, the dwarf remained upon his back in perfect safety, taunting the dog with hideous faces, and triumphing over him in his inability to advance another inch, though there were not a couple of feet between them. [12]
Discipline, indeed, required that they should submit; and many a man who would have flown to meet death on the field as a bride, quailed before the terrible adventurer who would not shrink from the most hideous deeds. [10]
Despite the fact that the memories she had cherished were now become hideous things, she sought to drag them forth and compare them, ruthlessly, with what must have been the treasures of Lise. [9]
The maudlin scene that met my eyes on deck defies description; some were fighting, others grinning with a hideous laughter, and still others shouting tavern jokes unspeakable. [9]
How is it that Man should have dedicated this hideous land--in which even the human heart seems to be hardened against all pity--to the merciful Hathor? [10]
The history of that hideous pilgrimage across a state has never been written. [9]
In less time than it takes me to write these words he had dragged a hideous, naked warrior out of the brambles, and with an avalanche of crumbling earth they slid into the waters of the creek. [9]
If for this task, a hideous one at best, they chose to pay themselves out of the treasures of the citizens, nobody would blame them. [10]
For sheer hatred--as sure as man is the standard for all things--merely carried away by a hideous impulse to spite their neighbor for not thinking as they do--nay, simply for not being themselves--to hurt him, insult him, work him woe. [10]
She was pale, still outwardly composed,--but I had a strange, hideous feeling that she was weeping inwardly. [9]
But the first step he made wrung such a hideous creak from the crazy floor that he sank down almost dead with fright. [5]
They were entombed, so to speak, in a hideous big house over on the South Side, which fortunately burned down, and then they bought in Park Street, and took a pew in St. John's. [9]
Two "for rent" signs had fallen successively from the overgrown hedge: some fifty feet back from the road, hidden by undergrowth and in the tenebrous shades of huge larches and cedars, stood a hideous, two-storied house with a mansard roof, once painted dark red. [9]
But as it shone upon the ruins of the mill, when Jean Jacques went out into the working world again, it made so gaunt and hideous a picture that, in spite of himself, a cry of misery came from his lips. [11]
In her terror she dared not open her eyes for fear of seeing on all hands the hideous images on the walls and ceiling. [10]
But now a shadow appeared before the opening of the cave, and he breathed a deep sigh as he felt himself released from the hideous vision, for he had recognized Paulus, who came up and knelt down beside him. [10]
The war-whoop, the scalp halloo in the dead of the morning, with the hideous winding notes of them that reached the bluff beyond and echoed back, were enough to frighten a man from his senses. [9]
The hideous weapon sang through the air, and true to its course as was the fragment of a rock discharged at Hector by bully Ajax, encountered the head of the gigantic Swede with matchless violence. [4]
I have just said that there was nothing but death and desolation in these hideous places, but I forgot. [5]
We flew by row after row of ginger-bread, suburban houses built on "villa plots," and I read in large letters on a hideous sign-board, "Woodbine Park. [9]
But Arsinoe only remembered these things to-day as a butterfly sporting in the sun may remember the hideous pupa-case that it has burst and left behind it. [10]
And, fearful to relate, the batrachian features humanized themselves as the monster grew, and, shaping themselves more and more into a remembered similitude, Myrtle saw in them a hideous likeness of--No! [6]
All this was quite beyond her comprehension, and struck her as, disgusting; and how haggard and hideous were the limbs of these people who thus sinned against their own bodies--the noble temples of the Divine Spirit! [10]
These are public places; for the city government has a queer notion that trees are not hideous, and that a part of the use of living is the enjoyment of the beautiful. [4]
Even that gentle philosopher on the throne, Marcus Aurelius, was disgusted at your fellow-believers' hideous mania for death. [10]
Was Parson Young's own heart such a hideous spectacle to himself? [6]
He cackled it out with hideous energy after 'Home again, home again from a foreign shore,' and said he 'wouldn't give a damn for a tug-load of such rot. [5]
And in both our minds rose red images of hideous foes skulking behind his brave form as he trod the forest floor. [9]
It is not only in my dreams; the hideous gray threads which proceed from this greedy spider are continually floating before me and dim the light. [10]
The hideous suggestion of Zminis seemed to him worthy of his greatness by its mere enormity. [10]
Could the whole of this hideous structure, tier resting upon tier, have been reared without something of a foundation? [9]
Oh, the intrusion of this hideous disease is an unspeakable disaster. [5]
The dreadful face of the murderer was not hideous now, but engaging--the face of a youth enduring torments of soul or of body. [10]
The hideous imperturbability of the man's hatred sickened her. [9]
I know enough of the hideous terror which this awful being creates around him; and before I would consent to let it torture me to death by day and by night-morning, noon, and evening--far rather would I die this very day. [10]
Finally, the figure of the apple-dealer--a hideous pygmy form, with the head of an old man, like enough to his own--roused his curiosity. [10]
The hideous image of that strife was reflected amongst our own people. [9]
Then a bandage of soiled rags was put on in a cleverly careless way which would allow the hideous ulcer to be seen, and move the compassion of the passer-by. [5]
The hideous stillness of Fillmore Street was driving Janet mad. [9]
A hideous hubbub of coarse, loud voices pierced her unaccustomed ears; she could have sunk on the earth and cried; but she kept up her courage and collected all her energies, for she saw in the distance a large gilt cross over a lofty doorway. [10]
The superficial foreign observer finds sameness in our different States, tiresome family likeness in our cities, hideous monotony in our villages, and a certain common atmosphere of life, which increasing facility of communication tends to increase. [4]
On damp, murky nights, these scattered skeletons gave forth a soft, hideous glow, like very faint spots of moonlight starring the vague desert. [5]
Her father had never allowed her to go out after dark, unaccompanied, even in the neighbourhood, and the terrors of night show their most hideous faces to those who are burdened by anxious cares. [10]
Not even old Nathaniel himself would have recognized his home when Nancy finished what she termed furnishing: out went the horsehair, the hideous chandeliers, the stuffy books, the Recamier statuary, and an army of upholsterers, wood-workers, etc., from Boston and New York invaded the place. [9]
I appeared to myself as repulsive as a hideous ape when at the great baths by the Gate of the Sun I saw the youths and men with beautifully arranged and scented hair and smooth limbs that shone with cleanliness and purification. [10]
These pictures caused much laughter and often occasional harmless scuffles between Ulrich and Sanchez, for the latter liked to lay hands on these portraits and turn them into hideous caricatures. [10]
You must not misunderstand me; but it would be horrible to me to believe that you, who are so beautiful, and as white as a lily, have any part in the hideous curse. [10]
Ah, watch by me, Sandy --stay by me every moment--_don't_ let me go out of my mind again; death is nothing, let it come, but not with those dreams, not with the torture of those hideous dreams--I cannot endure _that_ again.... [5]
Terrible, hideous to me seems such an existence with no rest in it! [10]
Fancy being in love in such heat as this; what a hideous thought! [10]
Alexander's artistic eye knew the difference well between the beautiful and the ugly--and the exhausted man lying on the divan, was no hideous dwarf. [10]
Shouts of hideous joy went up. [11]
But with all its injustice, with all its surrender of personal liberty, it seeks to call the attention of the world to certain hideous wrongs, to which the world is likely to continue selfishly indifferent unless rudely shaken out of its sense of security. [4]
Do you know it affected me as one is affected when he wakes out of a hideous dream and finds that it was only a dream. [5]
Yet my future is threatened by a prophecy--such a hideous prophecy. [10]
Then, going out into the hall, from a table on which lay a contour map of the battle region, the major picked up a hideous mask that seemed to have been made for some barbaric revelries. [9]
It was lying in wait for him, With hideous patience, in the coming watches of the night. [9]
In the Circus, in the theatre, or sailing about the Bosphorus--they were to be seen everywhere together; and through the hideous, bloody struggle for the throne they lived in a Paradise of their own. [10]
Mono Lake lies in a lifeless, treeless, hideous desert, eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, and is guarded by mountains two thousand feet higher, whose summits are always clothed in clouds. [5]
To this day I recall my terror as I dangled in mid-air, staring into a hideous face. [9]
Serapion must have hit straight, for his foe fell at his feet with a hideous roar, rolled over and over in the sand, groaning and panting, and then with one shrill shriek lay silent and motionless. [10]
Gaze upon him--ponder him well--and then say if you can give your honest votes to a creature who has earned this dismal array of titles by his hideous crimes, and dares not open his mouth in denial of any one of them! [5]
He also made him aware that he feared some evil from her, and that, in an alarming vision, she had appeared to him as a hideous spider. [10]
It was too hideous, too terrible! [10]
The head was hideous, horrible, and yet it was hers. [10]
Dick had a hideous, gnawing suspicion that somewhere in these deep shades the schoolmaster might meet Elsie, whose evening wanderings he knew so well. [6]
Treason came up, hideous, fit only to be huddled into its dishonorable grave. [6]
It was a hideous thing, and yet there was a fascination about it some where. [5]
A dread, a hideous suspicion, froze her blood; the lamp trembled in her hand as she leaned over the chest which ought to have contained every thing she possessed. [10]

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