Only a very few days more -
appallingly few to the hearts which had set themselves bravely to hope against hope - three weeks, a month later, perhaps, the name of ships under the blight of the "Overdue" heading shall appear again in the column of "Shipping Intelligence," but under the final declaration of "Missing."
At length there came a flash so
appallingly bright that in its glare Nature seemed to be standing still.
I lowered Ajor at the end of my rifle and then slid over myself, and I am free to admit that my hair stood on end during the process, for the drop was considerable and the ledge
appallingly narrow, with a frightful drop sheer below down to the rocks at the base of the cliff; but with Ajor there to catch and steady me, I made it all right, and then we set off down the trail toward the valley.
But how to get that
appallingly absurd notion into the heads of the middle classes so that there should be no mistake?
He was
appallingly dressed: his clothes torn and dirty, soaked with a night's rain.
His talk was an odd mixture of almost boyish garrulity and of the reserve and discretion of the man of the world, and he seemed to Newman, as afterwards young members of the Latin races often seemed to him, now amusingly juvenile and now
appallingly mature.
I looked in my mind for something
appallingly stupid to say, with the object of distressing and teasing Mrs.
The meek man was quite willing to concede that, but perhaps it rendered the matter even worse, as showing that there must be something
appallingly wrong somewhere.
She's either very ugly,
appallingly uncomfortable, or absolutely terrifying.
But one worker said: "They are treating the staff
appallingly after their loyalty."
PRIVATE Shirley Lumley has been treated
appallingly by the Army.
It is nothing more than an exhibition of
appallingly bad judgment.