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I had not gone more than 150 yards, however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me to run back again.
In fact, in the whole of that floor there was no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, it seems, made his home there.
His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which is familiar to every man who goes much to the City.
Making our way among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness.
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The beast had hideous fangs.
He had a hideous scar running from his forehead to his jaw.