| Mai put the candle down on the desk, setting monstrous shadows to jittering on the walls and ceiling as she turned back to me. |
| For every successful human replicant there is likely to be a clutch of monstrous failures. |
| His head was displayed on a pike near Westminster Hall, the scene of either his greatest triumph or his most monstrous regicidal crime. |
| It is natural for a wolf to worry a lamb, but when a lamb worries another lamb then it is a monstrous business. |
| Out at the distant horizon ascended a monstrous tidal swell amassing into an alp. |
| That is, part of what's monstrous about monsters is somehow this very agglutination of significance, these uncontrolled outgrowths of meaning. |
