I might have asked Lofty John last year but this year I cant because Ive never spoken to him since he played that horrid joke on me about the apple.
Mostly he laughs in a horrid sarkastic way like Jolly Jim's uncle.
And oh, how she hated that unjust, horrid Miss Brownell!
80 "Oh, please, Aunt Elizabeth, don't make me wear that horrid thing.
"I didn't know it was such a dreadful thing to do—I didn't know you were going to say such horrid things about me.
"It is horrid!
'I don't know how you can smoke such horrid, nasty stuff,' said Beatrice, coughing.
She heaped up all the wickedness of a lifetime, hysterically augmented it, and found a horrid pleasure in the exaggeration.
Look at that horrid bunch of toadstools growing out of the floor there!
he would exultantly snatch the screen from poor shrinking wretches, passionately hurry them to the summit of the mount of exposure, and there show them all naked, all false—poor living lies—the spawn of that horrid Truth which cannot be looked on unveiled.
horrid: but I go out every Sunday, and care nothing about the maîtresses or the professeurs, or the élèves, and send lessons au diable (one daren't say that in English, you know, but it sounds quite right in French); and thus I get on charmingly….
" "Horrid thing!
And I think it's horrid to talk about people being dead anyhow.
I suspect it was a little horrid of me, but really I couldn't resist the temptation, and if you will forgive me for it I will forgive you for the things you said about the Governor, and we will all be good friends.
"It sounds so horrid the last night of the old year.
But that other horrid feeling was always there, spoiling it, back in my heart.
He let go, thundering one of his horrid curses, and I galloped home more than half out of my senses.
" He drank the spirits and impatiently bade us go; terminating his command with a sequel of horrid imprecations too bad to repeat or remember.
don't repeat that horrid noise: nothing could excuse it, unless you were having your throat cut!
A horrid presentiment flashed across Pencroft's mind.