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Definition of Appalls
1. appall [v] - See also: appall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appalls
Literary usage of Appalls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Women of the Debatable Land by Alexander Hunter (1912)
"NEITHER DEATH NOR DANGER appalls. No woman is aware of her own capabilities until
she is tested, and there are some who will meet an emergency on the spur ..."
2. M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem by John Trumbull (1856)
"... as if you'd gain'd supplies, From Beelzebub's whole host of flies, No bug
these warlike hearts appalls; They better know the sound of balls. ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"FROM the ancient abbey walls, now that knell my soul appalls, As it rings in ...
Bat within those abbey walls is a sight far more appalls; For dim phantom ..."
4. Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne by Paul Hamilton Hayne (1882)
"How it rages, wilder, higher, Like a hot heart's fierce desire, Thrilled with
passion that appalls us, Half appalls, and yet enthralls us, ..."
5. Martin's History of France. The Decline of the French Monarchy: The Decline by Henri Martin (1866)
"This idea of a nation working as a single man fascinates the imagination, but
appalls the reason. Suppose that individual liberty, the principle of all ..."
6. The Decline of the French Monarchy by Henri Martin (1866)
"This idea of a nation working as a single man fascinates the imagination, but
appalls the reason. Suppose that individual liberty, the principle of all ..."
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