All 9 Uses of
hideous
in
The Mill on the Floss
- It was not without a leaping of the heart that she caught sight of a small pair of bare legs sticking up, feet uppermost, by the side of a hillock; they seemed something hideously preternatural,—a diabolical kind of fungus; for she was too much agitated at the first glance to see the ragged clothes and the dark shaggy head attached to them.†
Chpt 1.11
- But Mr. Stelling took no note of these things; he only observed that Tom's faculties failed him before the abstractions hideously symbolized to him in the pages of the Eton Grammar, and that he was in a state bordering on idiocy with regard to the demonstration that two given triangles must be equal, though he could discern with great promptitude and certainty the fact that they were equal.†
Chpt 2.1
- He might look at me through an eye-glass stuck in his eye, making a hideous face, as young Torry does.†
Chpt 5.4 *
- But under this torpor there was a fierce battle of emotions, such as Maggie in all her life of struggle had never known or foreboded; it seemed to her as if all the worst evil in her had lain in ambush till now, and had suddenly started up full-armed, with hideous, overpowering strength!†
Chpt 6.13
- Philip went home soon after in a state of hideous doubt mingled with wretched certainty.†
Chpt 6.13
- If we—if I had been better, nobler, those claims would have been so strongly present with me,—I should have felt them pressing on my heart so continually, just as they do now in the moments when my conscience is awake,—that the opposite feeling would never have grown in me, as it has done; it would have been quenched at once, I should have prayed for help so earnestly, I should have rushed away as we rush from hideous danger.†
Chpt 6.14
- Life stretched before her as one act of penitence; and all she craved, as she dwelt on her future lot, was something to guarantee her from more falling; her own weakness haunted her like a vision of hideous possibilities, that made no peace conceivable except such as lay in the sense of a sure refuge.†
Chpt 7.2
- My body has been dragged about somewhere; but I have never travelled from the hideous place where you left me; where I started up from the stupor of helpless rage to find you gone.†
Chpt 7.5
- The next instant the boat was no longer seen upon the water, and the huge mass was hurrying on in hideous triumph.†
Chpt 7.5
Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening