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- Manson on Tropical Diseases mentions Sondelius's admirable method of killing rats with hydrocyanic acid gas, and The Sketch once mentioned his atrocious system in baccarat.†
Chpt 16 *
- Latham, my sweet, I quite agree that Martin is too aggressive, thoroughly unlicked, very selfish, rather a prig, absolutely a pedant, and his shirts are atrocious.†
Chpt 37
Definitions:
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(1)
(atrocious) exceptionally bad, cruel, or ugly
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)