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Definition of Horrors
1. horror [n] - See also: horror
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horrors
Literary usage of Horrors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1876)
"Bulgarian horrors and the Question of the East. By the Right Hon. ... The attention
which has been drawn by the recital of these horrors to deeds of equal ..."
2. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"The present one was full of horrors. Ballard was first executed, and snatched
alive from the ... But I stop my pen amidst these circumstantial horrors. ..."
3. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"But in this picture we hear little of slaughter, little of the mere general
horrors of captivity and bonds. The subject on which the Chronicler is most ..."
4. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester (1816)
"horrors OF WAR AT LEIPZIG, 1813. THE nearer you approached to the Ranstadt gate,
... Here all kinds of horrors are united; here death reaps his ..."
5. The Irish in America by John Francis Maguire, William Joseph Hardee (1868)
"The Irish Exodus—Tho Quarantine at Grouse Isle—The Fever Sheds — horrors of the
Plague—The 'Unknown' — The Irish Orphans—The good Canadians—Resistless ..."
6. History of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield (1883)
"... horrors. CORTÉS was exultant. During the last brief hour how completely had
his fortunes changed I Again was his star ascendant, filling the whole ..."
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