Sentence examples for horrid manner from inspiring English sources
Then there was the gravestone at the cemetery at St Chad's, dating from 1832: "Here lie interred the dreadfully bruised and lacerated bodies of William Bradbury and Thomas his son both of Greenfield who were together savagely murdered in an unusually horrid manner".
But as she justly points out, black Americans (the term she prefers) have a long tradition of maintaining high standards of manners under horrid conditions.
In the hope of saving Miss Manners from excruciatingly incorrect interrogation, a lunch companion recently intercepted this horrid little note and rephrased the question: How does Miss Manners like to take her leisure?
Instead, they are a way to get around horrid service.
Luckily they met with no contrary wind, and the first ship making no haste upon so horrid an errand, while the second pressed on in the manner described, the first arrived so little before them, that Paches had only just had time to read the decree, and to prepare to execute the sentence, when the second put into port and prevented the massacre.
Horrid boys become horrid men.
