"horror" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- No chance again of finding that grisly horror under his fingernails.
- The great battle scenes are rendered with a power and grisly horror both increased and made oddly transparent by a freshness and innocence of diction.
- But he was utterly nauseated at the reactions of his fellow Romans: presumably civilized men and women, gloating over the grisly horror below.
- Or, as one put it: "Nothing can describe the confusion, the savage, blood-curdling yells, the murderous faces, the awful curses, and the grisly horror of the melee."
- Silverhair was battling her own compulsion to flee this grisly horror.
- And while that link, which involves a story of grisly horror, provides the author with a logical scheme of motivation, it is also problematic as a fictional device.
- The nocturnal noises started up again, and I lay back to sleep once more with a vague feeling that some grisly horror had passed me in the night.
- Indeed, maybe the grisliest horror in these books is their prose.
- How could he possibly put into words the sheer grisly horror of those gaping Lon Chaney nostrils, those stretched-back lips, that incinerated hair?
- We cannot tell what he might take it into his mind to do, what grisly horrors he might suddenly decide to perpetrate.
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