most horrid
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Sen. William Preston, a South Carolina Whig, called the statue “the most horrid phantasmagoria I have ever beheld.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2023
But perhaps the most horrid place was the kitchen.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2016
When, in Taunton, the Pocasset captives saw the head—"They made a most horrid and diabolical lamentation, crying out that it was their queen's head."
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
Both now appeared before his imagination, in their most horrid shape—an apprehension of moral pain, added to the physical.
From The Yellow Chief by Reid, Mayne
He took me forthwith to the wonderful frescoes of Le Sœur, and, walking quickly along them, stopped at length before the most horrid and ghastly picture that ever I set my eyes on.
From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
