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Sentences starting with monstrous

Monstrous crimes are committed in its name by persons collectively which they would not dare to commit as individuals. [7]

Sentences ending with monstrous

Philometor and I would do it more than gladly, although you always want something monstrous. [10]
You'll agree with us, that to give him even the most distant chance of escape, if we could help it, would be monstrous. [12]
He ascribes the present dilapidated condition of Stonehenge to the operation of the general deluge; for, he adds, 'to suppose it to be the work of any people since the flood is entirely monstrous. [6]
I was everything monstrous. [5]
It was too monstrous. [11]
The Duc de Bercy to be harangued to his duty, scathed, measured, disapproved, and counselled, by a stripling Vaufontaine--it was monstrous. [11]
Recovering himself, he answered meaningly, bowing low: "The honour is memorable--and monstrous. [11]
This was monstrous! [9]
It'd be monstrous. [13]
Monstrous! [12]

More example sentences with the word monstrous in them

The words "murdered your mother" haunted her, and she remembered the law of the ancients which refused to prescribe a punishment for the killing of parents, because they considered such a monstrous deed impossible. [10]
What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]
He must consume with inward disgust while Olivier Delagarde shamelessly babbled his monstrous lies to all who would listen. [11]
How monstrous it was that such vile wickedness should be delivered against this woman before him, in whom beauty, goodness, power were commingled! [11]
The old arm-chair was solid yet, But saddled with such a monstrous debt! [6]
All around us was a ring, where the sky and the water come together; yes, a monstrous big ring it was, and we right in the dead center of it--plumb in the center. [5]
We were almost under the monstrous wall of water thundering down from above, and speech was in vain in the midst of such a pitiless crash of sound. [5]
To tell the truth, we saw at a glance that one would have to spend weeks--yea, even months--in that monstrous establishment to get an intelligible idea of it. [5]
Antinous had learnt to regard everything crippled or defective with aversion, as a monstrous failure of nature's plastic harmony, but to pity it tenderly; but now he felt quite differently. [10]
It is monstrous to me that the situation should be made on either side a political occasion for private ambition or for party ends. [4]
There was going to be trouble; but that monstrous Holmes rose up, wobbling his double chins, and says he, 'Order, gentlemen; the first man that draws, I'll lay down on him and smother him! [5]
The shapes of those who pass into the dimness are outlined in monstrous proportions. [4]
To the whites this was a monstrous thing. [5]
Then the storm thinned, and we see that monstrous wall go a-sailing off across the desert, awful to look at, I tell you. [5]
I repeat that there has never been so monstrous a doctrine uttered from the mouth of a respectable man. [7]
The gates of the Palace closed on the last of Pango Dooni's men, and with a wild cry they rode like a monstrous wave upon the rebel mob. [11]
Worse still are the monstrous doublets, reaching down to the middle of the thighs, so hard quilted, stuffed, bombasted, and sewed that the wearer can hardly stoop down in them. [4]
But among all the fossils which Cuvier found in the Parisian basin, nothing was more monstrous than the _poissardes_ of the old Revolution, or the _petroleuses_ of the recent Commune, and I fear that the breed is not extinct. [6]
The wretch knew that, and yet he suffered them to commit a monstrous, an incredible act--an act that a man's brain refuses to take in. [10]
He must think that I, too, am afraid of him--and in fact I am afraid of him," he thought, and again he felt something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul. [2]
Philip paid them, swollen as they were with a monstrous list of extras; but he seriously counted the diminishing bulk of his own hoard, which was all the money he had in the world. [5]
On the other side of the temple is a monstrous seven-ton rock, eleven feet long, seven feet wide and three feet thick. [5]
He was a short stout man, and the sweat streamed down his face as he stood under the blazing sun to sketch a fearful picture of the monstrous doom which was hanging over the city and its inhabitants. [10]
This craze about Roxana, of which Caracalla had just now spoken to him as a certain fact, he regarded as a monstrous illusion of this strange man's, which would, however, be a better safeguard for Melissa than pledges and oaths. [10]
Smiley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he might be, for fellers that had travelled and been everywheres all said he laid over any frog that ever they see. [5]
Smiley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he might be, for fellers that had traveled and been everywheres all said he laid over any frog that ever they see. [5]
From this monstrous pomposity even the artificial rusticity of a Petit Trianon is a relief. [4]
A monstrous tin pan would have yielded as much assonance. [11]
We got it out of the top of a monstrous tall tree. [5]
The veterans who opposed the treachery were hewn down by the wretch's orders, but the brave garrison of the city could not be won over to the monstrous crime. [10]
I should think one would hardly care to shine if its light wasted itself in the monstrous solitude of the sky. [6]
But all at once the man, the lover, and the husband spoke: my wife was in that beleaguered town under that monstrous shower! [11]
It is the most arrogant, the most monstrous example of special legislation of them all. [9]
Each of its monstrous sides was a wide stairway which rose upward, step above step, narrowing as it went, till it tapered to a point far aloft in the air. [5]
In passing, these monstrous rags of cloud hung low and swept along right over the spectator's head, swinging their tatters so nearly in his face that his impulse was to shrink when they came closet. [5]
This is a monstrous idea to us. [5]
It was a monstrous big river here, with the tallest and the thickest kind of timber on both banks; just a solid wall, as well as I could see by the stars. [5]
By this time monstrous big birds begun to come and settle on the dead animals. [5]
These houses, solid marble palaces though they be, are in many cases of a dull pinkish color, outside, and from pavement to eaves are pictured with Genoese battle scenes, with monstrous Jupiters and Cupids, and with familiar illustrations from Grecian mythology. [5]
His monstrous egotism made him like some infuriated bull in the arena, with the banderillos sticking in his hot hide. [11]
A monstrous big lumber-raft was about a mile up stream, coming along down, with a lantern in the middle of it. [5]
To right and left were reefs, behind was the shore, with a monstrous surf rolling in; before was a narrow passage. [11]
Nevertheless, quoth she, it was small marvel that such a heathen Turkish turmoil as we had been living in should beget monstrous fancies in a young maid's brain. [10]
Let them succeed in their monstrous scheme! [10]
All was silent in and about the sleeping-room, and the fearful words, "the deed," still rang in the ears of the man who had just committed the most monstrous of all atrocities. [10]
That he was huge, a lunker, a monstrous old varmint, Big Tom knew by the size of his tracks; that he was making the ascent that morning ahead of us, Big Tom knew by the freshness of the trail. [4]
What lay before her seemed so monstrous, so unexampled, that it was impossible that she ever could look forward to it firmly and calmly. [10]
He's stupid, but he has experience, a quick eye, and resolution.... And what role is your young monarch playing in that monstrous crowd? [2]
Very few people have a grip like Gabriel--the prints of his monstrous fingers, two inches deep, are to be seen in that rock to-day. [5]
Some of them had pictures on them; one a picture of a hog with a monstrous snout, and beside it a squirting soda-siphon; below it some sarcastic doggerel. [5]
This sylph-like person had little in common with a monstrous lady whose adventures in the wildernes Phelps was fond of relating. [4]
Shrewd Egyptians, who had divined His existence and shrouded His image with monstrous shapes, born of their own thoughts and imaginations, had drawn a thick veil over Him, hidden Him from the masses. [10]
Should he fly from the city and from his work, or should he face what seemed to him, in the light of his consecration, a monstrous temptation, and try to conquer himself? [4]
I was suddenly filled with the fever of composing arguments to change a decision that appeared to me to be the result of a monstrous caprice and delusion; writing them out, as they occurred to me, in snatches on the backs of envelopes--her envelopes. [9]
He did not even struggle, so paralysed was he with the mere thought of the monstrous outrage that was proposed to be inflicted upon his sacred person. [5]
Pierre looked at Dolokhov and his eyes dropped, the something terrible and monstrous that had tormented him all dinnertime rose and took possession of him. [2]
Medius, while he disputed so monstrous a statement, vehemently declared that such wholesome and nutritious food as those fish was undoubtedly calculated to prolong the lives of the whole family to an exceptionally great age. [10]
But for the crumbling arches and monstrous piers and broken walls that rise from the foot of the hill of Pion, one could not believe that in this place once stood a city whose renown is older than tradition itself. [5]
The coal is clearly worth more than the abstractions, and yet what a monstrous inequality in the prices! [7]
Slowly the monstrous ciphers faded from the grey hemisphere of space, and she saw again the newspaper in her trembling fingers, the kitchen into which the sunlight streamed from the open window, the dog Biribi basking in the doorway. [11]
Every time he chanced to meet Dolokhov's handsome insolent eyes, Pierre felt something terrible and monstrous rising in his soul and turned quickly away. [2]
He always did catch horned dace and shiners, which he despised, and sometimes he snared a monstrous sucker a foot and a half long. [4]
How on earth can you raise such a monstrous sum for me? [5]
The walls were built of monstrous masses of smoothed granite, neatly joined together. [5]
Neither can anybody begin to describe the way that monstrous craft begun to crash along. [5]
Had I been at Louisburg, I should have held it, as I held Ticonderoga last July, and drove the English back with monstrous slaughter. [11]
I sometimes wonder, as I open my morning paper, if nothing did happen in the twenty-four hours except crimes, accidents, defalcations, deaths of unknown loafers, robberies, monstrous births,--say about the level of police-court news. [4]
The belief that animals so distinct as a monkey, an elephant, a humming-bird, a snake, a frog, and a fish, etc., could all have sprung from the same parents, will appear monstrous to those who have not attended to the recent progress of natural history. [1]
With the challenge and the monstrous good-bye, a stone came flying up the hill after him and stopped almost at his feet. [11]
The monstrous growths and the flaming colors of the tropics contrast with our more subdued loveliness of foliage and bloom. [4]
The trombone pumped and growled, the trumpet blared, the big brass instrument with a calyx like the monstrous tropical water-lily quivered and howled, and the drum, banging into the discord, smashed every tympanum in the car. [4]
By what monstrous abortion of fate did these abide in the shadow of Dyer? [13]
In spite of a tremulous effort to govern herself and see the situation as it really was--an effort of one who desired her good to bring her and Rudyard together, the ruse itself became magnified to monstrous proportions, and her spirit suddenly revolted. [11]
It must be a sublime feeling to one in the procession to walk about in such monstrous fine clothes; but what would his emotions be if more people could see him! [4]
Why, this is a monstrous sort of talk about the Constitution of the United States! [7]
Nature herself seems a little ashamed of a law so monstrous, billions of summers, and now the old game again without a new bract or sepal. [6]
A scheming drug-vender, (inventive genius,) an utterly untrustworthy and incompetent observer, (profound searcher of Nature,) a shallow dabbler in erudition, (sagacious scholar,) started the monstrous fiction (founded the immortal system) of Homoeopathy. [6]

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