CHAPTER XII AT THE PRIORY She was not to be pardoned: the offence was too monstrous, daring, and final.
She was conscious of two things: a vehement curiosity, and the existence somewhere in the precincts of a dead body, unsightly, monstrous, calm, silent, careless—the insensible origin of all this simmering ferment which disgusted her even while she shared in it.
The great, wavy river, churned by thousands of keels; the monstrous steamer—the 'Mona's Isle'—whose side rose like solid wall out of the water; the vistas of its decks; its vast saloons, story under story, solid and palatial (could all this float?
Anna continued reading the list, which seemed endless: long before she had reached the last item her brain was a menagerie of monstrous figures.
Poverty was fed and clothed, and sheltered, to bind it by obligation to "the Church;" orphanage was reared and educated that it might grow up in the fold of "the Church;" sickness was tended that it might die after the formula and in the ordinance of "the Church;" and men were overwrought, and women most murderously sacrificed, and all laid down a world God made pleasant for his creatures' good, and took up a cross, monstrous in its galling weight, that they might serve Rome, prove her sanctity,
Having found herself impotent either to charm or sting him, hatred was her only resource; and this hatred she expressed in terms so unmeasured and proportion so monstrous, that, after listening for a while with assumed stoicism, my outraged sense of justice at last and suddenly caught fire.
" The shape of some monstrous villainy, half seen, half guessed, loomed through the darkness which had girt me so long.
In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.
At times it almost seemed as if an under-current raised these monstrous billows which thundered against the wall of Granite House.
One might have said that the water escaped by a monstrous gargoyle, shaped with all the imagination of an artist of the Renaissance.
Its strange form caught the eye, and when Gideon Spilett, on the engineer's advice, had drawn the outline, they found that it resembled some fantastic animal, a monstrous leviathan, which lay sleeping on the surface of the Pacific.
" argued Inclination, "it would be too monstrous for him to hinder me from going out to a pretty country church on a spring morning.
Some things which had seemed monstrous to her were gathering intelligibility and even a natural meaning: but all this was apparently a branch of knowledge in which Mr.
" "Then, isn't it monstrous to leave her in this fashion, after seventeen years of married life, without a fault to find with her?
They were but four in all, but to the panic-stricken weasels the hall seemed full of monstrous animals, grey, black, brown and yellow, whooping and flourishing enormous cudgels; and they broke and fled with squeals of terror and dismay, this way and that, through the windows, up the chimney, anywhere to get out of reach of those terrible sticks.
"Peter Mink caught a monstrous eel in the duck pond on Monday," Mr.
A monstrous deal of good nature, and it is not only good nature, but you have so much, so much of everything; and then you have such—upon my soul, I do not know anybody like you.
Apart from propriety, it was monstrous that Mrs.
A monstrous horror of it suddenly possessed her.
A house without a spare-room was monstrous to her.
