1 They drew back before me, and laughed their low horrid laugh.
2 I fear to think of her, off on the wolds near that horrid place.
3 The coming night might see my own body a banquet in a similar way to those horrid three.
4 I suppose it is some of that horrid poison which has got into her veins beginning to work.
5 It is all dark and horrid to me, for I can remember nothing; but I am full of vague fear, and I feel so weak and worn out.
6 I could not have endured the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam.
7 Then I braced myself again to my horrid task, and found by wrenching away tomb-tops one other of the sisters, the other dark one.
8 At the first coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the whirling mist and snow; the wreaths of transparent gloom moved away towards the castle, and were lost.
9 The shovel fell from my hand across the box, and as I pulled it away the flange of the blade caught the edge of the lid which fell over again, and hid the horrid thing from my sight.
10 Again I felt that horrid sense of the reality of things, in which any effort of imagination seemed out of place; and I realised distinctly the perils of the law which we were incurring in our unhallowed work.
11 There is some fascination, surely, when I am moved by the mere presence of such an one, even lying as she lay in a tomb fretted with age and heavy with the dust of centuries, though there be that horrid odour such as the lairs of the Count have had.
12 He disgusted me much while with him, for when a horrid blow-fly, bloated with some carrion food, buzzed into the room, he caught it, held it exultantly for a few moments between his finger and thumb, and, before I knew what he was going to do, put it in his mouth and ate it.