All 3 Uses of
appalling
in
I Heard the Owl Call My Name
- Mark read it twice and had a sudden and appalling vision of hundreds of boards, kegs of nails, bolts and shingles, perhaps even a bathtub, all heavy, stubborn and totally inanimate, piled high on the float, waiting to be carried up the river by canoe.†
Chpt 1.4appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- Sometimes Mark was appalled at how much was gone, how little they remembered from their long past, and he encouraged Keetah to write down the small treasures that floated up in the old minds.†
Chpt 3.12appalled = shocked by how terrible or horrible something is
- The young bush pilot was properly appalled by the imminent prospect of birth.
Chpt 3.12 *appalled = terrified (dismayed)