Sentence examples for horrid sight from inspiring English sources
She described the character as 'a horrid sight, the blackest gnome' … He had thick lips, unruly black hair, and his hands and feet were paws".
In the first book, The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg, her creation is described as "a horrid sight, the blackest gnome" but quickly turns out to be a friendly character and is later attributed a "kind face".
In the story of toys coming to life, the Golliwogg, "the horrid sight", turns out to be loads of fun, a "jovial African" who leads the white children in a barn dance, while a magnate from Japan - "Poor harmless little man" - does an eastern thing, and "Sambo" sings a song.
The whole thing is a horrid mess.
Then he ran for President, and ran, like multi-headed Cerberus, " 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy".
We open in darkness, from which rises the voice of a tenor (Mark Padmore), singing of "horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy".
Then he ran for President, and ran, like multi-headed Cerberus, " 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy". (Milton again, same poem). The Donald who was my friend had only one head, and it was not a head of much consequence.
There had been a livestock market on the site for 800 years but by the mid 19th century it was described by one writer as "that disgusting place, West Smithfield Market, for cruelty, filth, effluvia, pestilence, impiety, horrid language, danger, disgusting and shuddering sights, and every obnoxious item that can be imagined".
The sight of alcoholic pie boys aged sixty was strange to me; and the fact that their horrid pies proved stone-cold on the munch.
