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Sentence Examples Many other servants came in to strip the bed and put new sheets and comforter on her monstrous bed. Its appearance seemed to represent a monstrous wolf, with long brown fur that swept down its back and belly. She may have had a beautiful, attractive body but once the fan went down, you would see a horrible, gruesome, monstrous, ugly face. She was in no state to argue, nor to mask herself as a horrible monstrous creation. Grendel lives, with his monstrous mother, at the bottom of a foul lake, which a variety of other monsters inhabit. In nineteenth-century France several freak shows were banned for fear that the shocking spectacles would cause women to bear monstrous children. Then I locked into a better fish that I thought must be a roach but I was to be proved wrong when a monstrous dace came to the surface. After a good night's rest, the couple resume their journey appearing more refreshed and less monstrous. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is a monstrous atrocity hanging over the conscience of the world. There was something incredibly monstrous about the inhuman way it could not be stopped. To those involved in any way with this monstrous evil, I say to you that this is your first and only chance. It is the horribly ordinary condition of militarised men made monstrous by war. The idea that you should hold your keen pupils back to make life less strenuous for a secondary school teacher is monstrous. I think virtually everyone in the contemporary world would find such a project morally monstrous. It sometimes seems the only roles left to them are monstrous mothers and dotty old dears. But that rage alone is not enough to drive people to monstrous acts of violence. But I'm still troubled by the fact that they could even consider doing something so monstrous. They deem insignificant sins that the church considered monstrous only a few generations ago. Despite its monstrous, carceral appearance, the convention centre is in fact only modestly sized by other cities' standards. One's first reaction, apart from deep grief, is outrage that such a monstrous attack against innocent civilians, against children is possible. Show More Sentences Those monstrous carbuncles on his once-handsome face testify to what may well have been a deliberate poisoning. The humans and elves fight against the monstrous orcs and ogres while the third group, called the Zerg, seek to destroy both of them. Like a monstrous octopus, poverty spreads its nagging, prehensile tentacles into hamlets and villages all over our world. He stopped in his tracks and looked around, a monstrous task with all the students bustling around him like busy bees. The moon would peek out every now and then, but it was mostly hidden behind monstrous black clouds that stretched across the span of the sky. I've butchered leg joints with a monstrous, cleaver-like knife more suited for bludgeoning oxen than fine dicing a brunoise. She remains unswerving in hope while enduring monstrous headaches and crippling depression. He's a grown man and seems pretty normal by appearance, except he's got a monstrous boom box strapped to the front of his bike. I'm sure it takes a monstrous ego to be a White House speechwriter, but do these guys really believe their own promotional blurbs? Did the war make him monstrous, or was the war a product of his monstrousness? The stranger was so monstrous in size that he was extremely terrified and stunned. Can you savour the South American experience without clocking up monstrous mileage? These monstrous sea scorpions occasionally emerged out of the water to venture onto dry land. For the other 90 per cent, it is viewed at best as quaint, but more often as a monstrous and grotesque accident of birth. Mai put the candle down on the desk, setting monstrous shadows to jittering on the walls and ceiling as she turned back to me. That is, part of what's monstrous about monsters is somehow this very agglutination of significance, these uncontrolled outgrowths of meaning. I immediately stopped my car and, smiling wickedly, pulled out the monstrous bag. Having befriended the monstrous Lelio, she agrees to rescue him from the marital clutches of a middle-aged countess by wooing the lady herself. A lot of it's just effrontery, sheer brazen nerve, and a sort of monstrous cockiness. It is natural for a wolf to worry a lamb, but when a lamb worries another lamb then it is a monstrous business. Show More Sentences In the direction that Maria heard the sound of wind, she could see what appeared to be a monstrous pile of blankets. His head was displayed on a pike near Westminster Hall, the scene of either his greatest triumph or his most monstrous regicidal crime. That was until we were pointed in the direction of our monstrous destination. Out at the distant horizon ascended a monstrous tidal swell amassing into an alp. The surreal, anarchic and monstrous extremes of yesterday are not so sensational anymore. For every successful human replicant there is likely to be a clutch of monstrous failures. The dome is not the only monstrous carbuncle currently swallowing obscene amounts of public money. The ocean has long been our repository for ideas of the monstrous and the unknowable. I don't know how I'd react if I encountered something as monstrous as a Golem, but I doubt that I'd resort to verbal pyrotechnics. Ominously, the calving of monstrous Antarctic icebergs is becoming a regular occurrence. The geraniums, grown far too leggy and monstrous to be attractive, were still full of bud, so we consigned them to the bank below the patio. Before classicism can again occupy a central place in our lives, a monstrous libel must first be undone. I mean, let's see you write three to four thousand of these monstrous stanzas, with their sinewy ababbcbcc rhyme scheme and closing alexandrine. The screen went dark as a monstrous tongue licked the lens, then a hand swiped it several times. A beautiful dive at 20m, I saw huge coral formations and monstrous sea fans. A sudden rush of wind swept into the cavern and with a great roar, a monstrous winged dragon descended into the great cavern. His face became disfigured, all blotchy and lumpy, truly monstrous, and he began to develop ulcers all over inside. Hop off at the summit and fly down a monstrous 35 degree chute flanked by rugged saddles and knifedges. Against the Pacers, he had a monstrous, one-handed offensive rebound putback slam. Across one large wall, a purplish strand of smoke pulsated and contracted, cohering into a monstrous head. Show More Sentences While tracking Tony's daughter down, Angela finds herself in fisticuffs with a saucy waitress, and is revealed as a monstrous hypocrite. She looked at one of the frogs, a big homely one with a gigantic mouth and monstrous warts. In the future a crew of terraformers becomes infected by the monstrous bacteria that survived and thrived there from the rover. The monstrous plant ballooned out over the rest of the forest like a giant among ants. After a long deliberation, Ryan himself signed the death warrant for the murderer prosecutors called monstrous. Perhaps that is why this holier-than-thou hoochie seeks the psychic matchmaking advice of a monstrous drag queen. For many of the passengers, the trail of devastation left behind by the monstrous tidal waves, is still fresh in their memory. Although his 2001 numbers were way down from his monstrous 2000 season, he is by far the best bat on the team. From this standpoint, the city's monstrous caricature of futurism is simply shrewd marketing. In the latter, a monstrous giant steals Zeus's thunderbolts, which are retrieved in a manner similar to Thor's thunderweapons. I guess this gives me a shoddy excuse to embark on a weeklong bender of hard drinking, dire self-examination and monstrous self-pity. How could a town live between those huge monstrous creatures without cowering in fear? She saw them burning buildings, with flaming torches in their hands and astride their monstrous steed. A lot of it is just effrontery, sheer brazen nerve, and a sort of monstrous cockiness. If this monstrous juggernaut of metal and circuitry wasn't a titan, he didn't know what was. At 12.59 am, a massive deep sea quake struck just off the coast of Indonesia, sparking a tidal wave of monstrous proportions. The monstrous behemoth of white had come out of nowhere as well, throwing Josh off track. Earthy rock chords sit opposite synthesised, bass heavy riffs to create a monstrous number that will appeal on so many levels. The glow still present, the figure turned, revolving, and the dim light cast a monstrous shadow of it on the trunk of a tree nearby. Besides these monstrous and horrifying thoughts, the uncontrolled practice of cloning also threatens the dignity of humankind. Show More Sentences One can encounter a monstrous biomorphic creature that would seem more at home in a surrealist painting than in an adventure game. Lots of people would sign up if they could grow a gigantic potato or a monstrous zucchini or a humungous tomato. Men had often appeared in drag as monstrous parodies of females but rarely, if ever, had the tables been turned with such devastating effect. In some towns old buildings have been demolished and replaced with monstrous modern carbuncles, a sure sign of shelling. Soon other beasties are popping up, and Roger is forced to deal with the house's evil apparitions and monstrous demons. Some are like horses, others like monstrous turtles, many resemble wicked snakes, and the list continues. Overhead them was a huge, monstrous and extremely ugly bird drooling over them. For another such work, Chu carved the head of a fanged, monstrous beast and mounted it on a chintzy quilt with little flowers. Using its enormous head, the monstrous creature rammed a gaping hole in the wall. There were cries of excitement and horror as a monstrous serpent and a giant spider came on to the train, sending shivers down one's spine. Something lived in that house, thought the oldest kids in the neighborhood, something dark, evil, monstrous. Then he opens his robe to reveal to Scrooge two hideous and monstrous children that cling to the ghost's robe. Then, bursting out from behind the trees, the same monstrous face appeared beneath a dark hood. She regarded the monstrous creature with wide, terrified eyes of pure confusion. Mongrelization under the cover of school integration is the monstrous wolf that seeks entrance into the fold where it would not stop until it had devoured the whole flock. Prime Minister John Howard says the comments are absurd and monstrous. The monstrous, world-shaking failure was leaving the country vulnerable. All I had in those days was a monstrous lack of ego which therefore required huge injections of actorly ego and misled people. Even Godzilla, the ugliest star attraction of them all, is bigger than ever, both at the box office and in sheer monstrous height. Leylandii trees, those avaricious and monstrous evergreens, have grown another yard, since I last wrote about them, and controlling legislation is still awaited. Show More Sentences Everyone in Singapore knows him, even if only as the guy who got sued so much that he can't afford to get a barber to trim his monstrous sideburns. David Choe must have had a Kafkaesque morning, waking up to find himself changed in his bed into a monstrous millionaire. Similarly, the tie-in with South American legends and superstitions attempts to engage with a mythic archetype of monstrous evil, but this too is patchy and unconvincing. He wants to kickstart a process that leads to monstrous cuts in domestic discretionary programs and in entitlements. Even a passing mention of Shelley's most endurable creation immediately brings to mind Boris Karloff's memorably monstrous visage from the 1931 film. The pleasure of the text is unmitigated by the monstrous unfairness that these torments would entail if they were visited upon an actual mature unmarried woman. As the author has argued in his consideration of the Souillac trumeau, such monstrous mouths could evoke a multiplicity of meanings for the monastic audience. Now, what they learned on U.S. streets with the monstrous MS-13 and MS-18 has sent children fleeing north. For 27 years, the 105 floors of Ryugyong Hotel, a monstrous three-winged, glass-and-concrete pyramid, have gone unused. It was from this odd dream that Jane woke to a spectre moving about in her room, the form of a hideous and monstrous woman emerging from her very own closet. The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room. Any country that would even seriously consider such a monstrous act certainly isn't going to be shown mercy when war is brought to its civilian population. These bogus safety issues and courses are a monstrous waste of money. How could such a cruel, monstrous decision exist on the earth? Charlie's dad is an immense, monstrous presence at the centre of the film. With his ear against the moist earth, Jason heard a monstrous rumble and the ground shook hundreds of times more violently than it would have in an earthquake. In the next two decades, there will take place a total discrediting of these monstrous blights on the economic stability and prosperity of our civilization. Spielberg's films have the advantage of comparison, between live actors, who simulate terror, and monstrous reptiles that look so real you hold your breath when close to them. Look at this monstrous vanity and stupid slavishness to fashion! He has done me a great service, and I be under monstrous obligations to him, but he be, nathless, the Outlaw of Torn and I the daughter of an earl and a king's sister. Show More Sentences The Net can sometimes seem like a monstrous fountain of obscenity, hate and lies, the ultimate refuge for sociopaths releasing years of pent-up frustration. There was a completely crazy, monstrous, illogical connection with time. Even at superstar level, most rock bands are cesspits of raging ego, petty bitterness, monstrous vanity, sordid self-abuse and very bad hair days. A more modern term for hubris, for Kirk's monstrous ego, is narcissism. Similarly, Milizia could see in Bernini's Apollo and Daphne only a monstrous parody of the Apollo Belvedere, and he utterly condemned the Saint Bibiana. The ship was monstrous, and her figurehead suited her perfectly. Balance, taste, consistency, all the skills I had worked so have to develop were blown away by page after page of vulgar, monstrous, intoxicatingly bold letterforms. Instead of sweating underneath monstrous loads, moving as slowly and ponderously as beasts of burden, we cruised the trail like coyotes, heads up, alert, eyes on the horizon. The idol was, and is, annually dragged forth in procession on a monstrous car, and as masses of excited pilgrims crowded round to drag or accompany it, accidents occurred. It was laden with two bowls of steaming chilli, a monstrous plate of salad, and several side dishes of onion, cheese, sour cream, and cubed bread. And in the final analysis it was her playful innocence that rescued her from the hypnotizing predatoriness of Zanetti, who comes over here as a monstrous enchanter. Germany under the Kaiser was not the monstrous regime it was made out to be by the propagandists of the British empire at the time the war broke out. Their grotesquely enlarged features give them a monstrous quality. There can be few among today's absintheurs whose skills are on a par with this dwarfish playwright, author of Ubu Roi and creator of the monstrous stage figure Pere Ubu. Rather than decide to actually cover this story of monstrous proportions, they resorted instead to bogus and pathetic bouts of existential soul-searching. It will show the extent of people's anger about these monstrous turbines. It is a monstrous eyesore quite out of keeping with the surrounding area. He appealed to the same love of the marvelous and monstrous which Barnum has made his fortune in exhibiting woolly horses, dwarfs, Feejee mermaids and other queer fish. Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered. It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it. Show More Sentences After the fight, infuriated at his loss, Poseidon sent a monstrous flood to the Attic Plain, to punish the Athenians for not choosing him. Filmer considered it monstrous that the people should judge or depose their king, for they would then become judges in their own cause. Equally, space was untextured, unfelt, colorless, and potentially monstrous. At the Ragnarok, the Midgard serpent will join with the wolf Fenrir, another of Loki's monstrous offspring in attacking the gods. Holofernes was an Assyrian general and king, often drunk and constantly monstrous. Holofernes adopts the archetypal monstrous image, further pulling any convictions of wrongdoing away from Judith. It was monstrous of him to keep the truth from them all those years. When we desublimate the things we have repressed, we create a space in which we feel liberated to be as monstrous as we wish. Similar to Beowulf, Judith conveys a moral tale of heroic triumph over monstrous beings. A goblin is a monstrous creature from European folklore, first attested in stories from the Middle Ages. But those monstrous nonbiodegradables are killing me, and not softly either. A monstrous fine bit of cowflesh! I'll be sworn she has rendezvoused you. What, you dog? Have you a way with them? Freedom from all defects and imperfections, diseases, and distempers, infirmities and deformities, maimedness and monstrous shapes. The lusca, he said, was a terrible creature, like a monstrous octopus or cuttlefish. Based on a 1978 observation by mathematician John McKay, Conway and Norton formulated the complex of conjectures known as monstrous moonshine. But far more monstrous than the fiances serenading their laydeez is the arrival of slasher Trevor. In a monstrous matchup, 14-time heavyweight champ Ric Flair will attempt a figure-fright leglock against Diamond Dallas Page. The monstrous and awesome shoebill is possibly the most bizarre bird on the African continent. These monstrous portents that before me rise Of mitred pimps, and coronetted spies! This explanation satisfies Lestrade but not Sherlock, who insists the dog he saw was monstrous. Show More Sentences As they approached the clifflike walls of Black Harren's monstrous castle, Brienne squeezed his arm. When the Giganto dragged him off the tree, he lay on the ground looking up at the monstrous ape as it roared. Who cannot want the thought how monstrous It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain To kill their gracious father? Most of their masks are hideous, and represent either monstrous Beasts, or kinds of Devils. So arrayed I stepped at last from my door and was saluted as before by my monstrous ostiaries. Indeed, he records that many locals regarded the mountainous and wild landscapes as monstrous and ugly rather than romantic or picturesque. One could describe this lyricism of the monstrous life and of the fantastic beauty of the unknowable as some sort of chromosomic oratorio. But there are threats out there too like a monstrous sea snake who is out to get the adventurous pearl. Budgie's shotgun drum fills have a monstrous syncopation, like herds stampeding across the rolling landscapes of Andalusia, Spain, site of the album's recording. We noticed the monstrous cabbage weighing eighteen pounds, but this was nothing new to us as in the past few days we have made thirty barrels of liberty cabbage. Tundra swans are simply monstrous, weighing as much as 20 pounds. Was the history of that their monstrous Papess of our making? Here were dishes freshly prepared with skill and care and without resort to the monstrous monosodium glutamate additives that spoil so much food of this type. This monstrous parody of divine compassion... performs, in the presence of moving picture cameras, a grotesque parody upon the laying on of hands and the healing of the sick. Hellhounds are a common monstrous creature in fantasy fiction and horror fiction, though they sometimes appear in other genres such as detective novels, or other uses. The Annales Maximi contained such information as names of the magistrates of each year, public events, and omens such as eclipses and monstrous births. Erasmus of Rotterdam, an influential humanist and rejecter of war, regarded the Ottoman Turks as barbarians and monstrous beasts, and thus approved of war against them. A monstrous wave upbore the chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore. In the Welsh Triads, it was the offspring of the monstrous sow Henwen. Examples from Classical Literature The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery. The first task that Eurystheus gave the hero was to procure the skin of a monstrous lion that inhabited the nemean forest. I reject the monstrous theory that while a man may redeem the past, a woman never can. To thus commercialize pleasure is as monstrous as it is to commercialize art. And as he peers he crooks one monstrous leg and with his gnarly toes scratches himself on the stomach. And every company in the Galaxy, be it monstrous huge or piddling small, made a mad rush to be first on the scene. Assuredly thou canst have no concern for the disesteem in which thou art held by the monstrous men of today. It was monstrous, he abhorred it, but could no more resist it than the hasheesh eater his drug. I know naught of your strange fashions and monstrous manners of haircutting. What she formerly regarded as a monstrous crime, she now spoke of as a peccadillo. It was almost as if in her mind she accused him of harboring some monstrous hallucination. It is too monstrous for any but the hardiest to discover its ice-protected secrets. During this time there was produced in the mysian Olympos a boar of monstrous size. With monstrous growths the accoucheur must depend upon his own resources, ingenuity and knowledge of the mechanism of parturition. Many, said he, and such as are unreconcilable towards strangers, and of monstrous and deformed proportions. This notion of a hermaphrodite deity is not monstrous, as it has been called. They had sent this monstrous caricature of the most beautiful thing in the world. It seemed to him monstrous that one should sadden one's life by such an excursion as this. They split and coalesced into other creatures, and to the drummings of spheric harmonies resolved themselves scaly and monstrous. I do know that you did it for love of me, monstrous though it sounds to say so. Show More Sentences And already this inebriating illusion of an ingenuous girl concerning a common male was helping to shape monstrous events. The first bone traces of human beings range back to an epoch posterior to the monstrous quadrupeds entombed in the diluvium. My blood be upon your own heads and upon this iniquitous and monstrous tribunal. So the man was able to dissever the ghastly head and thus to slay the monstrous dragon. He declared the snake to be the most monstrous of its kind ever seen, and called it an anaconda. He became a quack poet, and hampered his talents by the imposition of a monstrous parade of rattletrap theories and professions. The spirit of Egypt synthesised in this monstrous symbol, obliterated them both. Even in the desert the monstrous accountability system of the army lived and burgeoned. And will it suit you to be dutiful if your uncle accepts this monstrous proposal? It was caddish to think of marrying her, and monstrous to think of giving her up. The Egyptian Apophis was a monstrous snake, as were also, originally at least, the Greek dracontes. It is the half-formed, the perplexed, and the suggestively monstrous. They followed close after Blake, around the monstrous bole of the baobab. It would kill this monstrous soul-life, and without its hideous warnings, he would be at peace. Such a monstrous Pandarus would have been blackballed at the Pimp. As he uttered these monstrous words, he assumed the mien of Ajax, expecting to see the lightnings descend upon his head. No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow. He gazed across the monstrous sordidness of soul to a chromo on the wall. A monstrous proceeding truly, and not to be condoned by any circumstances. The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears. Show More Sentences It would there have seemed purposeless, degrading and truly monstrous. There is also the sea serpent, a monstrous animal and has much power. A non-loving Universal Thought was too monstrous a concept to entertain. It proceeded from a hideous worship of monstrous Dravidian divinities. His slow progress was like that of a slug, befouling beauty with a monstrous trail. Well, they've gone out together to flaunt their monstrous connection! There was a breathlessness in his utterance which contrasted with the monstrous hint of mockery in his intention. I approached it from one side and the other while, in my room, I flung myself about, but I always broke down in the monstrous utterance of names. And bear in mind also that this monstrous disease affects not merely the idlers and their menials, its poison penetrates the whole social body. So monstrous indeed that you think I ought not to go forth alive. There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids and as subtle in colour. What other marvels might have been rummaged out of this monstrous cabinet there is no telling. The general sentiment of Hellas was opposed to his monstrous fancy. Astrology and magic were the monstrous fruit of a hybrid union. Over Ealing, Richmond, Wimbledon, it would have seemed as if some monstrous pen had flung ink upon the chart. I remember very well the day when the strange, and surely monstrous, suspicion first made my head tingle. Officials lie, dissemble, flatter, traduce, and pander to a degree that would be regarded as monstrous in private life. I am monstrous glad of it, for then I shall have her for a neighbour you know. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon. Show More Sentences Tammany is not a freak, a strange and monstrous excrescence. Her trident is depicted plunging into the side of a monstrous buffalo, out of whose body emerges a demon symbolising evil. That hissing pant, as regular and full-volumed as the exhaust of an engine, spoke of a monstrous organism. The conduct of these spectators I regard as being monstrous and unmanly. What, then, was the fluttering of the moth but a monstrous intimation. By using her innate courage and her wits, Claire manages to outmaneuver a monstrous Rock Troll leader named Bodacious Deepthink. Such a desire was the mother of monstrous and unshapen things. The monstrous nature of that declaration of paternity seemed to strike the world dumb. The heat was terribly oppressive, and the huge sunlight flamed like a monstrous dahlia with petals of yellow fire. Davis, but Winterbourne paid her the compliment of saying to himself that she was not, after all, such a monstrous goose. The brightly coloured parasols danced and dipped like monstrous butterflies. The shape of some monstrous villainy, half seen, half guessed, loomed through the darkness which had girt me so long. What I did find was monstrous selfishness and heartlessness, and a gross, gluttonous, practised, and practical materialism. Not 10 minutes into the game and I found myself face-to-face with the monstrous Devastator, who quickly wiped the smirk off my grill. Then the warrior was ware of that wolf-of-the-deep, mere-wife monstrous. How he writhes his back, curving it like some monstrous catamount. Drunkards had reeled by, cursing and chattering to themselves like monstrous apes. Probably this supposition must have appeared monstrous, even to Ptolemy. All this was of such incredible immodesty, of such monstrous effrontery, that D'Artagnan could scarcely believe what he saw or what he heard. Anyhow, this piece of Quixotry on your father's part, as it was unjust in itself, has brought forth a monstrous family of injustices. Show More Sentences The fact that Madame should die before herself perplexed her mind and seemed contrary to the order of things, and absolutely monstrous and inadmissible. I would not brawl in the presence of death, but I can assure you that if I were a younger man your monstrous conduct would not pass with impunity. Of course, highborn Osborne's attack on the public sector involved a monstrous attack on local government finances from which it is reeling and which is counter-productive. It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated, and the result was monstrous. Enthroned upon his monstrous steed, and solemnly proceeding up and down the wide, steep field, he looked the very incarnation of quiet, gleeful satisfaction and delight. You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement. Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice. And this image of those two with the key in the studio seemed to me a most monstrous conception of fanaticism, of a perfectly horrible aberration. But when she heard herself called the child of a cheat and a swindler, the very monstrous unexpectedness of this caused in her a revulsion towards letting herself go. In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast. The people raved against the Lady Eleanore, and cried out that her pride and scorn had evoked a fiend, and that, between them both, this monstrous evil had been born. The body and the legs were as symmetrically human as Nature could have fashioned them, and the feet, too, were human in shape, but of monstrous proportions. Instead of which, appalling alike to us who look back and to those that lived at the time, capitalism, rotten-ripe, sent forth that monstrous offshoot, the Oligarchy. She thrust out a shapeless, swollen foot, encased in a monstrous, untended shoe, the dry, raw leather of which showed white on the edges of bulging cracks. In the light of after events there seemed to be something monstrous and ominous about that exuberance, something of the spirit that is called fey. They moved like monstrous marionettes and made gestures like live things. Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes, until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself. It was no common misanthropy which had shut Captain Nemo and his companions within the Nautilus, but a hatred, either monstrous or sublime, which time could never weaken. We cannot be dogmatic about it, but at least without what you have ventured to call monstrous conceit we can surely say that we are the highest thing in nature. The plant men, with their blood-sucking hands, and the monstrous white apes that make Dor hideous by day, were hidden in their lairs for the night. Show More Sentences There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of holes, in two or three of which I could have easily crept, and covered my whole body. Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing's monstrous ideas, but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on common sense. I was equally confounded at the sight of so many pigmies, for such I took them to be, after having so long accustomed mine eyes to the monstrous objects I had left. Between the crowded houses of Gravesend and the monstrous red-brick pile on the Essex shore the ship is surrendered fairly to the grasp of the river. In a single one of these monstrous buildings, the Hudson Terminal, there is a cable that runs from basement to roof and ravels out to reach three thousand desks. It was a monstrous task to keep even a semblance of harmony among them, and it was a marvel to me that he got them to the city without a mighty battle among themselves. Find more words! 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