At first I could not make out what he meant --but soon a hideous thought flashed upon me.

He drew back from some hideous thought with evident difficulty and cleared his throat.

Her first, hideous thought was of fire.

What hideous thought was that I had even now?

Gron gasped at the hideous thought that followed remorselessly upon the heels of this recollection.

Wasn't that a hideous thought to have?

Now that had been a hideous thought, indeed.

By heaven, he echoes me, As if there were some monster in his thought Too hideous to be shown.

It was pitch black, the blackness of the pit, and a hideous thought suddenly came to me.

I was lost in these hideous thoughts, lost and wanting only some other sound except that of Merrick's soft tears.