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shocking, as from disturbing details of a horrible story, or a color more vivid (bright or deep) than would be expected
- Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing's monstrous ideas, but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on common sense.Chapter 15 (74% in)
- The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell fire blazed behind them.Chapter 3 (93% in)
- It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realize all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all.Chapter 9 (94% in)
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