All 10 Uses of
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The Turn of the Screw
- In going on with the record of what was hideous at Bly, I not only challenge the most liberal faith—for which I little care; but—and this is another matter—I renew what I myself suffered, I again push my way through it to the end.†
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- I felt, in a fierce rigor of confidence, that if I stood my ground a minute I should cease—for the time, at least—to have him to reckon with; and during the minute, accordingly, the thing was as human and hideous as a real interview: hideous just because it WAS human, as human as to have met alone, in the small hours, in a sleeping house, some enemy, some adventurer, some criminal.†
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- I felt, in a fierce rigor of confidence, that if I stood my ground a minute I should cease—for the time, at least—to have him to reckon with; and during the minute, accordingly, the thing was as human and hideous as a real interview: hideous just because it WAS human, as human as to have met alone, in the small hours, in a sleeping house, some enemy, some adventurer, some criminal.†
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- He was quiet; he might be innocent; the risk was hideous; I turned away.†
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- The shock, in truth, had sunk into me still deeper than I knew on the night when, looking out to see either Quint or Miss Jessel under the stars, I had beheld the boy over whose rest I watched and who had immediately brought in with him—had straightway, there, turned it on me—the lovely upward look with which, from the battlements above me, the hideous apparition of Quint had played.†
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- I could only grasp her more quickly yet, for even while she spoke the hideous plain presence stood undimmed and undaunted.†
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- I've said it already—she was literally, she was hideously, hard; she had turned common and almost ugly.†
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- Hideous and obscure as it all was, it held Mrs. Grose briefly silent; then she granted my point with a frankness which, I made sure, had more behind it.†
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- How, on the other hand, could I make reference without a new plunge into the hideous obscure?†
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- For there again, against the glass ... was the hideous author of our woe—the white face of damnation.†
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Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening