All 7 Uses
appalling
in
The Thundering Herd
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- The volume of sound had swelled from rhythmic pound and beat to a mighty and appalling roar.†
Chpt 1 *appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- To be warned of such a thing was nothing, but the fact itself stood out in appalling vividness.†
Chpt 10
- Naked eyes of white men could only see the appalling beauty of the place and enable the mind to grasp the deceiving nature of its distance, size and color.†
Chpt 12
- The appalling fixidity of her attention broke with a shock and she looked for Catlee.†
Chpt 14
- An appalling sound seemed to take the place of motion.†
Chpt 15
- It was the terror of the plains, more appalling than the prairie fire.†
Chpt 18
- How magnificent and appalling!†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(appalling) shockingly terrible or horrible
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)