All 7 Uses of
hideous
in
The Border Legion
- In that other cabin, from which she was mercifully shut out, there were different sounds, hideous by contrast.†
Chpt 9 *
- He had removed the bandage, and with a raw, red blotch where his right ear had been shot away, he was hideous.†
Chpt 11
- Then came the hideous image of the giant Gulden, the utter absence of soul in him, and she shuddered.†
Chpt 12
- These trees hid any view of the slopes or floor of the gulch, and it was not till several more miles had been passed that the bandit rode out into what Joan first thought was a hideous slash in the forest made by fire.†
Chpt 13
- To Kells it must have been so, but to Joan it was even more hideous than the slash in the forest.†
Chpt 13
- Morning when it came seemed an age removed from that hideous night.†
Chpt 18
- Behind was something hideous and incomprehensible and terrible; before beckoned something beginning to seem bright.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening