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The Golden Apples
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- Yet things divined and endured, spectacular moments, hideous things like the black nigger jumping out of the hedge at nine o'clock, all seemed to Cassie to be by their own nature rising—and so alike—and crossing the sky and setting, the way the planets did.†
Story 2
- The Spaniard, when Eugene looked to him, was making a hideous face over the lighting of another cigarette.†
Story 6 *
- The muscles of his face grouped themselves in hideous luxuriousness, rippled once, then all cleared.†
Story 6
- Then he made a hideous face at Virgie, like a silent yell.†
Story 7
- She smiled once, seeing before her, screenlike, the hideous and delectable face Mr. King MacLain had made at the funeral, and when they all knew he was next—even he.†
Story 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(hideous) extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)