She, too, cannot fathom that Mr. Mangelsdorf, whom she describes above all else as gentle-natured, could have been involved in a deed so horrid.

I questioned whether it was not proper to admit, at a lonely spot, in a sacred hour, this man of tremendous and inscrutable attributes, this performer of horrid deeds, and whose presence was predicted to call down unheard-of and unutterable horrors.

Would that I might get my hands upon the foul devil who has done this horrid deed.

It lacks the grandeur of Macbeth's earlier apocalyptic image of pity, Yet it is no less the response to what Macbeth knows to be his 'horrid deed'.

She drank, and the horrid deed was accomplished.

Lulie is guilty of a thousand horrid deeds, with never so much as a wince of remorse, much less an apology.

"Perhaps I committed some horrid deed which I could not bear to contemplate, thus inducing amnesia, and some person - my friend rather than my enemy - sent me away from Marune so that I might escape the penalty for my acts."

On the night of the murders, he "was tempted to this horrid deed by the spirit".

The gendarmes, who had really been called out to protect the retreat of the garrison, seemed to imagine they were there to witness a judicial execution, and stood immovable and impassive while these horrid deeds went on before their eyes.

He must have known, even as we spoke, that the Shaddill were chasing us... and if he knew that, he must have guessed the Shaddill would commit horrid deeds on my person once they caught us.