All 4 Uses
appalling
in
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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- From hence the low murmur of his pupils' voices, conning over their lessons, might be heard in a drowsy summer's day, like the hum of a beehive; interrupted now and then by the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or command, or, peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge.†
appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted specter, beset his very path!
*appalled = horrified (causing strong feelings of disapproval)
- Apparently there had been some appalling act of justice recently inflicted, for his scholars were all busily intent upon their books, or slyly whispering behind them with one eye kept upon the master; and a kind of buzzing stillness reigned throughout the schoolroom.†
appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- There was something in the moody and dogged silence of this pertinacious companion that was mysterious and appalling.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(appalling) shockingly terrible or horrible
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)