"I am a horrid creature, of no use in this world, Uncle Wiggily!
"Oh, Fred is horrid!
" "It would be horrid to marry a man with a smashed nose, all the same," went on Bobbie.
I can't think what made him so horrid.
" When Jim was carried in, dreadfully white and with set lips whose red had faded to a horrid bluey violet colour, Mother said:— "I am glad you brought him here.
Peter was so distressed by the obvious fact that something horrid had happened to Bobbie that he limited his speech to repeating, "More bread and butter, please," at startlingly short intervals.
"Take the horrid rake, then," was the best she could manage.
He'll think it's all US, and that we're trying to be grand or charitable or something horrid.
"It seems horrid that nobody keeps his birthday," said Bobbie.
"Only—if it's horrid, I don't want you to; and if it's nice, I'd rather you didn't.
It was horrid of him.
"What a horrid old woman!
" cried Roberta, putting down her egg-spoon; "don't let's be horrid to each other.
It's horrid, I think.
I knew from what I had heard that she was a woman of violent passions; and that injurious blow that she had given Dirk, the man who had loved her so devotedly, betrayed a sudden temper and a horrid cruelty.
Eating your grub, and drinking your drink, and making bad jokes about you, and singing vulgar songs, about—well, about prisons and magistrates, and policemen; horrid personal songs, with no humour in them.
A horrid, nasty, crawly Toad!
We really must get all the furniture and baggage and stores moved out of this before those horrid machines begin clicking round the fields; and then, you know, the best flats get picked up so quickly nowadays, and if you're late you have to put up with anything; and they want such a lot of doing up, too, before they're fit to move into.
You horrid, proud, ungrateful animal, when I'm sorry for you, and trying to help you!
" Then the brutal minions of the law fell upon the hapless Toad; loaded him with chains, and dragged him from the Court House, shrieking, praying, protesting; across the marketplace, where the playful populace, always as severe upon detected crime as they are sympathetic and helpful when one is merely "wanted," assailed him with jeers, carrots, and popular catch-words; past hooting school children, their innocent faces lit up with the pleasure they ever derive from the sight of a gentleman in
