All 6 Uses of
appalling
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Marguerite remembered it all: what her brother must have suffered in his manhood and his pride must have been appalling; what she suffered through him and with him she never attempted even to analyse.†
Chpt 8 *appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and overmastered by Fate, had been borne in upon her with appalling force.†
Chpt 16
- Surely Fate could not deal a blow like that: Nature itself would rise in revolt: her hand, when it held that tiny scrap of paper last night, would have surely have been struck numb ere it committed a deed so appalling and so terrible.†
Chpt 19
- He would not allow so appalling a crime to be committed, as the death of a brave man, through the hand of a woman who loved him, and worshipped him, and who would gladly have died for his sake.†
Chpt 20
- As Marguerite, sick with horror, listened to Chauvelin's directions to his underling, the whole of the plan for the capture of the Scarlet Pimpernel became appallingly clear to her.†
Chpt 24appallingly = in a manner that shocks with its terribleness or horribleness
- Numbed with physical pain, she yet had sufficient mental vitality in her to realize the full horror of this terrible "either—or" he was once more putting before her; "either—or" ten thousand times more appalling and horrible, that the one he had suggested to her that fatal night at the ball.†
Chpt 29appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible