Sentence examples for horrid figure from inspiring English sources
In 1790 The Times reported instances of children "...begging for money for Guy Faux", and a report of 4 November 1802 described how "a set of idle fellows ... with some horrid figure dressed up as a Guy Faux" were convicted of begging and receiving money, and committed to prison as "idle and disorderly persons".
A skeletal monster that resembles a dinosaur skeleton (did he see fossilised giants in a cabinet of curiosities or embedded in a hillside?) rears up, animated, over horrid figures: a naked witch mixing vile soup, a knight with a flaming brand, a ghastly shrouded figure, a skeleton being made to sign a document, a hanged man.
Last June, Wachovia was the first to come clean by announcing some horrid bad-loan figures.
I felt like a spy, rushing into that horrid restroom with that broad linear stick figure, making sure that no one saw me enter and no one saw me leave.
But the horrid and appalling truth is that it did put a household name, quasi-public figure on record that the issue has enough merit to become a campaign issue.
Horrid boys become horrid men.
