All 12 Uses of
hideous
in
Selected Tales by Poe
- The phantasmagoric effect was vastly heightened by the artificial introduction of a strong continual current of wind behind the draperies—giving a hideous and uneasy animation to the whole.†
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- Why shall I pause to relate how, time after time, until near the period of the gray dawn, this hideous drama of revivification was repeated; how each terrific relapse was only into a sterner and apparently more irredeemable death; how each agony wore the aspect of a struggle with some invisible foe; and how each struggle was succeeded by I know not what of wild change in the personal appearance of the corpse?†
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- It was now the representation of an object that I shudder to name—and for this, above all, I loathed, and dreaded, and would have rid myself of the monster _had I dared_—it was now, I say, the image of a hideous—of a ghastly thing—of the GALLOWS!†
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- This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith, and with entire deliberation, to the task of concealing the body.†
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- Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman.†
Scene 2
- I looked upon the scene before me—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium—the bitter lapse into everyday life—the hideous dropping off of the veil.†
Scene 3
- And travellers now within that valley, Through the red-litten windows, see Vast forms that move fantastically To a discordant melody; While, like a rapid ghastly river, Through the pale door, A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh—but smile no more.†
Scene 3
- Bending closely over him, I at length drank in the hideous import of his words.†
Scene 3
- Their roots (a hideous sight!†
Scene 4
- Now it was that those hideous shrieks arose upon the night, which had startled from slumber the inmates of the Rue Morgue.†
Scene 4
- I saw it with perfect distinctness—all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones; but I could see nothing else of the old man's face or person: for I had directed the ray as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot.†
Scene 5
- —It is the beating of his hideous heart!†
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Definition:
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(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening