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shockingly terrible or horrible
- But I was so horribly alone, and even to clamber down into the darkness of the well appalled me.Chapter 6 (13% in)
- The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurts one's lungs: all contributed to an appalling effect.Chapter 11 (59% in)
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