All 3 Uses of
appalling
in
The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
- Then she made a dash for the cabin door and got in and shut out for a moment the appalling sight of the speed with which they were rushing into the dark, but not of course the horrible confusion of creakings, groanings, snappings, clatterings, roarings and boomings which only sounded more alarming below than they had done on the poop.†
Chpt 5
- An appalling loneliness came over him.
Chpt 6 *appalling = horrible
- Suddenly, only about the length of a cricket pitch from their port side, an appalling head reared itself out of the sea.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(appalling) shockingly terrible or horrible