There is a class of men in Bristol
monstrously prejudiced against Blandly.
It must seem
monstrously cruel of me, but I was now quite light-hearted again.
(Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is
monstrously ungrateful!
I sometimes thought that he hated even himself, so grotesquely had life dealt with him, and so
monstrously. At such moments a great sympathy welled up within me, and I felt shame that I had ever joyed in his discomfiture or pain.
Amy, has it never struck you that somebody is
monstrously polite to Mrs General?'
Skipper was unheeding of Jerry because of the fever that wrenched his flesh and chilled his bones, that made his head seem to swell
monstrously, that glazed the world to his swimming eyes and made him walk feebly and totteringly like a drunken man or a man very aged.
Many a private chair, too, inclosing some fine lady,
monstrously hooped and furbelowed, and preceded by running-footmen bearing flambeaux--for which extinguishers are yet suspended before the doors of a few houses of the better sort--made the way gay and light as it danced along, and darker and more dismal when it had passed.
He also acquainted them with the precise amount of the income guaranteed by the Duke of Thigsberry to Violetta Stetta of the Italian Opera, which it appeared was payable quarterly, and not half-yearly, as the public had been given to understand, and which was EXclusive, and not INclusive (as had been
monstrously stated,) of jewellery, perfumery, hair-powder for five footmen, and two daily changes of kid-gloves for a page.
It was really the hotel we were after,
monstrously magnified by the fog, but we took it for the face of a precipice, and decided not to try to claw up it.
They were twin whirlwinds of hatred, revolving about each other
monstrously. The time passed, and the two hostile gangs became very quiet.
"Five-and-twenty guineas was
monstrously dear for that little piano.
There could have been no such Revolution, if all laws, forms, and ceremonies, had not first been so
monstrously abused, that the suicidal vengeance of the Revolution was to scatter them all to the winds.