Both Uses of
appalling
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- It's perfectly appalling to think of being twenty, Marilla.†
Chpt 30 *
- But that night, when Marilla went to bed, acutely and miserably conscious that the little gable room at the end of the hall was untenanted by any vivid young life and unstirred by any soft breathing, she buried her face in her pillow, and wept for her girl in a passion of sobs that appalled her when she grew calm enough to reflect how very wicked it must be to take on so about a sinful fellow creature.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(appalling) shockingly terrible or horrible