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  • When I sent him my schedule, he was aghast.†   (source)
  • Peter stared at the man aghast.†   (source)
  • Part of me was aghast when I decided that the answer was no. I'd only waded into street life in the Bronx; I never got into its deepest, darkest waters.†   (source)
  • From the fear in her touch Langdon sensed someone must be approaching, but when he turned to her, she was staring aghast at the top of the black marble sarcophagus.†   (source)
  • People were aghast.†   (source)
  • They seemed aghast at the notion that Owen Meany was cast as the Prince of Peace.†   (source)
  • Ned was aghast.†   (source)
  • With faces aghast, the four children gaped at the man, and then at one another, for they saw at once that Mr. Curtain was Mr. Benedict himself.†   (source)
  • Kathy was aghast.†   (source)
  • Kit stared, too aghast to realize her own tactlessness.†   (source)
  • I was aghast.†   (source)
  • Ford stared at him, aghast.†   (source)
  • Holly could only stand there, aghast.†   (source)
  • They look back—aghast.†   (source)
  • He was beyond sorry, he was aghast.†   (source)
  • "Why?" asked Eragon, aghast.†   (source)
  • The Bocalites were aghast.†   (source)
  • Bast said, aghast.†   (source)
  • I didn't feel I could ask such a thing of Mameha, but Pumpkin and I had been girls together; and though I won't call her crude, as Auntie had called her, Pumpkin did have a certain coarseness in her personality and would be less aghast at what I was planning.†   (source)
  • I was aghast.†   (source)
  • Then she draws back, aghast at herself, with a gesture of nymph-like coyness, and bends away from him in an attitude of flight; but by this time he is no longer bored.†   (source)
  • And when I was aghast at this, he went into peals of laughter.†   (source)
  • Thor looked aghast.†   (source)
  • "There is more Chinese food here than in China!" she said, aghast.†   (source)
  • We were too aghast to make any noise at all.†   (source)
  • The surgeon was aghast and told Morgan he could not possibly have such an operation without anaesthesia.†   (source)
  • Defeated, he at last lost his temper at lunch on Monday, and while he choked back insults and blasphemies and was about to explode, she put the meat knife to her throat, without dramatics but with a steady hand and eyes so aghast that he did not dare to challenge her.†   (source)
  • Armansky was aghast.†   (source)
  • I was aghast.†   (source)
  • Ruth was aghast.†   (source)
  • Jordan was aghast.†   (source)
  • He stood up, aghast at Miss Riley's forwardness, brushing imaginary debris from his vest.†   (source)
  • I watched Babette stare into her cupped hands, aghast.†   (source)
  • She looked down and stared, aghast.†   (source)
  • Aghast, he rushed her inside, nursed her, and saved her life.†   (source)
  • I say, aghast.†   (source)
  • "Well, not exactly," I said, which only made them look more aghast.†   (source)
  • "My lord," Pea said, aghast at what Gus had suggested.†   (source)
  • Also, although I was pressing for a female expressiveness, it eluded me for the most part, and I had to content myself with female personae because I was not able to secure throughout the work the feminine subtext that is present in the opening sentence (the women gossiping, eager and aghast in "Quiet as it's kept").†   (source)
  • "Ain't they nothin' to put on the baby?" asked Mavity Bence, aghast.†   (source)
  • Aghast, the ladies would ask, "Die?†   (source)
  • Colonel Cargill was aghast.†   (source)
  • Cecily looks aghast.†   (source)
  • Max was aghast.†   (source)
  • I saw young women who had been running wild in poverty most of their lives rail against authority, and middle-aged, middle-class women who were aghast to find themselves living among people they thought were beneath them.†   (source)
  • Federalists everywhere were aghast, disbelieving, or seething with anger.†   (source)
  • They watched him, aghast.†   (source)
  • Belle was aghast.†   (source)
  • He glared at Vlad, then looked aghast at the rest of the group.†   (source)
  • Five thousand, maybe ten thousand diseased men, women, and children stood back from the water's edge, staring aghast or swaying back and forth, moaning.†   (source)
  • Sana sounds aghast.†   (source)
  • That just left Phaedrus aghast.†   (source)
  • Which is why people were aghast when late on the afternoon of August 29 they saw Roger Baldwin in his fine black suit and shiny boots, running madly down the middle of York Street.†   (source)
  • "I will not bore you or disturb you with the trivial details of my flight from Mother Russia, other than to say I'm aghast at the high price of corruption and will neither forget nor forgive the filthy accommodations I was "Just tell us what happened," said Marie.†   (source)
  • Brother Jacques looked aghast.†   (source)
  • ' cried Frodo aghast.†   (source)
  • He laughed; she wondered, aghast, what had made her say it.†   (source)
  • I should have been excited, but like everyone else in the room I was aghast.†   (source)
  • But then, a weak demon can help you only so much— We can't summon a demon," said Jocelyn, aghast.†   (source)
  • Longstreet swung to stare at him, aghast.†   (source)
  • From the hints he dropped ("We've investigated you pretty thoroughly"), I was aghast—he knew things about the trip, the names of people I had stayed with—many things I had tried to hide in order to protect the people involved.†   (source)
  • Utterly aghast even as I write, I can only say that this may be the worst novel ever penned by woman or beast.†   (source)
  • But with this, Catherine was dissolved, and Rufus sat aghast, less at her crying, which made him angry and jealous, than at his sudden solitude.†   (source)
  • Many of his closest friends in the Senate were aghast at this conduct.†   (source)
  • Even Reich was aghast, transfixed by the pointing finger and the fierce scowl.†   (source)
  • "Hagrid, what is it?" said Hermione, aghast.†   (source)
  • Harry asked, aghast, us Kreacher thrashed around at his feet.†   (source)
  • Macri was still aghast from the images she had just recorded.†   (source)
  • Aghast, Roran could only avert his face, hating himself for his cowardice.†   (source)
  • They explained what had happened; when they had finished, Lupin looked aghast.†   (source)
  • 'Dementors?' repeated Mundungus, aghast.†   (source)
  • "I may not know when the Cenozoic Era was —" Sticky was aghast.†   (source)
  • Ambrose's expression was perfectly aghast.†   (source)
  • "But surely they would have needed your consent," she said, aghast.†   (source)
  • I knew what it might mean, but I was aghast.†   (source)
  • I should offer her a pay raise.... "But —" Harry looked at him, aghast.†   (source)
  • 'Extra lessons with Snape?' said Ron, sounding aghast.†   (source)
  • "What?" said Ron and Hermione together, looking aghast.†   (source)
  • Aghast at the loss of her California color, she tried makeup; but this turned her skin to clay.†   (source)
  • "Your Excellency," exclaimed Yaroslav, aghast.†   (source)
  • I was aghast at such moments; her mind was unpredictable, unknowable.†   (source)
  • 'No, no, no!' said Hermione, looking aghast.†   (source)
  • "Make me a vampire now!" he said as the vampire stared aghast.†   (source)
  • Crying out, he threw it down and stared aghast, blood flowing from his open mouth.†   (source)
  • Mother had told her the same thing just last night Chelise spun to him, aghast.†   (source)
  • Grand Maester Pycelle gaped at him, aghast.†   (source)
  • "And you never thought to share this with me?" she wondered, aghast.†   (source)
  • It's terrible!' she said, sounding truly aghast.†   (source)
  • The servants looked aghast, but when Littlefinger saw what she'd done he laughed.†   (source)
  • When he'd first heard the news about Bjurman's murder, he was aghast.†   (source)
  • Sandy did a stand-up collapse, aghast at the man's cheek.†   (source)
  • Her family was aghast that she now could communicate unsupervised with men.†   (source)
  • She stopped, aghast, struck by the question: What is it, then-faith versus truth?†   (source)
  • The entire household was aghast at the bride's attitude toward her old husband.†   (source)
  • But it's just a brooch," said Max, aghast.†   (source)
  • She stopped, aghast, as at the cry of a stranger.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly, clasping the Ring in one clenched fist, he stood aghast.†   (source)
  • Instead, her mouth hung open, aghast.†   (source)
  • Still aghast.†   (source)
  • "Robb is only a boy," Ned said, aghast.†   (source)
  • exclaimed Eragon, aghast.†   (source)
  • He stared at it, aghast, unable to take in what he was seeing...the wand that had survived so much..."Harry."†   (source)
  • The cardinals' accusing miens evaporated into aghast stares, as if every soul in the room were praying the camerlegno was wrong.†   (source)
  • "What?" cried Slartibartfast, aghast.†   (source)
  • The Count was aghast.†   (source)
  • Ser Barristan repeated, aghast.†   (source)
  • "Minerva!" he said, aghast.†   (source)
  • The Cealdish man was aghast.†   (source)
  • The whole time you're sure you know there's nothing between you and dying except your own — your own brain or guts or whatever —like you can think straight when you know you're about a nanosecond from being murdered, or tortured, or watching your friends die — they've never taught us that in their classes, what it's like to deal with things like that — and you two sit there acting like I'm a clever little boy to be standing here, alive, like Diggory was stupid, like he messed up — you just don't get it, that could just as easily have been me, it would have been if Voldemort hadn't needed me —' 'We weren't saying anything like that, mate,' said Ron, looking aghast.†   (source)
  • Lupin looked aghast.†   (source)
  • "You didn't," I said, aghast.†   (source)
  • Denna said, aghast.†   (source)
  • Simmon was aghast.†   (source)
  • Cersei stared at her, aghast.†   (source)
  • Groleo was aghast.†   (source)
  • Melanie was just as aghast.†   (source)
  • Not a speck of light is showing, So the danger must be growing, For the rowers keep on rowing, And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing ....' 'He's gone off his rocker!' shouted one of the fathers, aghast, and the other parents joined in the chorus of frightened shouting.†   (source)
  • "What?" he asked again, aghast.†   (source)
  • I am aghast, and deeply satisfied.†   (source)
  • On the back of the seat, Gabby felt herself shrink, just as she had in his office, aghast that she'd said those words aloud.†   (source)
  • Smith was aghast.†   (source)
  • I say, aghast.†   (source)
  • Hearth looked aghast.†   (source)
  • He is aghast at the shovels.†   (source)
  • Alan was aghast.†   (source)
  • The Dornish garb was comfortable, but his father would have been aghast had he lived to see his son so dressed.†   (source)
  • Cecily is aghast.†   (source)
  • Nately was aghast.†   (source)
  • Zahra looked aghast.†   (source)
  • Melanie was just as aghast.†   (source)
  • "No," Sansa blurted out, aghast.†   (source)
  • His grandfather would have been aghast.†   (source)
  • Woref stood aghast.†   (source)
  • Sansa was aghast.†   (source)
  • Chamberlain was aghast.†   (source)
  • From the way Chloe kept glancing at her, her mouth dropping open, aghast, I knew she was getting the full story about my mother and Don.†   (source)
  • I say, aghast.†   (source)
  • Cersei stared at him, aghast.†   (source)
  • Theon was aghast.†   (source)
  • Thabang was the only member of the family who didn't have AIDS, and Gertrude was aghast at the possibility that Thabang would contract the virus as well.†   (source)
  • Yossarian was aghast.†   (source)
  • And so it came to pass that, while everybody in the boarding-house looked on amazed, almost aghast, Gideon Himes withdrew from the bank such money as was necessary, and had a chimney built at the side of the fore room and a broad hearth laid.†   (source)
  • Sam was aghast.†   (source)
  • His mother looked at him, aghast.†   (source)
  • The riverlanders were aghast.†   (source)
  • Jon was aghast.†   (source)
  • He thought of it, aghast.†   (source)
  • She listened, aghast.†   (source)
  • 'So passes Denethor, son of Ecthelion,' said Gandalf: Then he turned to Beregond and the Lord's servants that stood there aghast.†   (source)
  • Crabbe was aghast.†   (source)
  • In that dreadful light Sam stood aghast, for now, looking to his left, he could see the Tower of Cirith Ungol in all its strength.†   (source)
  • It stopped short aghast.†   (source)
  • Poor Mr Meagles looked aghast with astonishment.†   (source)
  • Aghast, "But what is it, John?" she whispered.†   (source)
  • "Where then?" asked Wang Lung, too much aghast to make sense in his words.†   (source)
  • She thought, aghast, that he said it as if he were actually happy.†   (source)
  • Scarlett was aghast at such words coming from Melly of all people.†   (source)
  • Conway was somewhat aghast at the problem, but by no means wholly displeased with it.†   (source)
  • While his wife looked on aghast, his long fingers scooped the hat from the child's head.†   (source)
  • Well, but a man's family—" said Wang Lung, aghast.†   (source)
  • Aghast, he flees to a rock in the sea, and there does penance for his very life.†   (source)
  • Pick cotton?" cried Scarlett aghast, as if Grandma had been suggesting some repulsive crime.†   (source)
  • He thought this quietly, in aghast despair, regret.†   (source)
  • I ought to fire Alvah, he thought—and then laughed at himself, aghast: fire Alvah Scarret?†   (source)
  • Stretched away in the swirling dark like the faces of a multitude aghast and frozen) "Unh!"†   (source)
  • He sank back against the seat aghast, indignation struggling with bewilderment.†   (source)
  • He let her body fall back against the seat, and he stared at her, aghast.†   (source)
  • He was quickly awake, and he listened further, aghast at the sharpness of this woman's eyes.†   (source)
  • "Saints preserve us!" cried Scarlet, aghast.†   (source)
  • But when he paused for breath and drink and beheld his features in a clear pool, he reared back aghast.†   (source)
  • Like a little boy in the dark to flail his courage and suddenly aghast into silence by his own noise.†   (source)
  • The women watch him, aghast.†   (source)
  • —as I lay in that dark hour, I was aghast to realize that something within me, long sickening, had quietly died, and felt as a husband might feel, who, in the fourth year of his marriage, suddenly knew that he had no longer any desire, or tenderness, or esteem, for a once-beloved wife; no pleasure in her company, no wish to please, no curiosity about anything she might ever do or say or think; no hope of setting things right, no self-reproach for the disaster.†   (source)
  • It can be told; I could take that many sentences, repeat the bold blank naked and outrageous words just as he spoke them, and bequeath you only that same aghast and outraged unbelief I knew when I comprehended what be meant; or take three thousand sentences and leave you only that Why?†   (source)
  • Mama was confounded, aghast at the thing, and not even she was so simple-minded as to believe that Grandma, so many years bound to us, would have thought it up herself, as she now apparently claimed.†   (source)
  • The manager looked aghast.†   (source)
  • We were aghast.†   (source)
  • When he approached it, in the reflected glare of the headlights two young faces seemed to float like two softcolored and aghast balloons, the nearer one, the girl's, backshrunk in a soft, wide horror.†   (source)
  • While working in Memphis I had stood aghast as Shorty had offered himself to be kicked by the white men; but now, while working in Chicago, I was learning that perhaps even a kick was better than uncertainty ....I had elected, in my fevered search for honorable adjustment to the American scene, not to submit and in doing so I had embraced the daily horror of anxiety, of tension, of eternal disquiet†   (source)
  • just as she would quit the kitchen from time to time and search the rooms downstairs until she found that little strange lonely boy sitting quietly on a straight hard chair in the dim and shadowy library or parlor, with his four names and his sixteenth-part black blood and his expensive esoteric Fauntleroy clothing who regarded with an aghast fatalistic terror the grim coffee-colored woman who would come on bare feet to the door and look in at him, who gave him not teacakes but the coarsest cornbread spread with as coarse molasses (this surreptitiously, not that the mother or the duenna might object, but because the household did not have food for eating between meals), gave it to him†   (source)
  • And then one afternoon—oh there was a fate in it afternoon and afternoon and afternoon; do you see the death of hope and love, the death of pride and principle, and then the death of everything save the old outraged and aghast unbelieving which has lasted for forty-three years—he returned to the house and called me, shouting from the back gallery until I came down; oh I told you he had not thought of it until that moment, that prolonged moment which contained the distance between the house and wherever it was he had been standing when he thought of it and this to†   (source)
  • Aghast at the sight, Izanagi fled back.†   (source)
  • "No!" said Hopton Stoddard, aghast.†   (source)
  • It hasn't stopped of course; I don't mean that I mean, there has never been any more of it, that there was that one fusillade four years ago which sounded once and then was arrested, mesmerised raised muzzle by raised muzzle, in the frozen attitude of its own aghast amazement and never repeated and it now only the loud aghast echo jarred by the dropped musket of a weary sentry or by the fall of the spent body itself out of the air which lies over the land where that fusillade first sounded and where it must remain yet because no other space under heaven will receive it So that means that it is dawn again and that I must stop.†   (source)
  • Keating sat aghast for an instant; and then he found himself laughing easily in answer, as if at home with a very old friend.†   (source)
  • "Mrs. Meade, do you know what you are saying?" cried the doctor, aghast at the unsuspected realism of his wife.†   (source)
  • And none ever to know what incredible tale lay behind that year's absence which he never referred to and which the woman who, even a year later and after their son was born, still existed in the aghast and automaton-like state in which she had arrived, did not, possibly could not, recount but which she seemed to exude gradually and by a process of terrific and incredulous excretion like the sweat of fear or anguish: how he had found her, dragged her out of whatever two dimensional backwater (the very name of which, town or village, she eithe†   (source)
  • Inside the gate what was once a park now spread, unkempt, in shaggy desolation, with an air dreamy remote and aghast like the unshaven face of a man just waking from ether, up to a huge house where a young girl waited in a wedding dress made from stolen scraps, the house partaking too of that air of scaling desolation, not having suffered from invasion but a shell marooned and forgotten in a backwater of catastrophe—a skeleton giving of itself in slow driblets of furniture and carpet, linen and silver, to help to die torn and anguished men who knew, even while dying, that for months now the sacrifice and the anguish were in vain.†   (source)
  • And suddenly a thought came to him, and he realized, aghast, that he could not prove it had never occurred to him before; yet he knew, in complete honesty, even though it did astonish him, that he had never thought of this before.†   (source)
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