HESTER. Lord Henry Weston! I remember him, Lady Hunstanton. A man with a hideous smile and a hideous past. He is asked everywhere. No dinner-party is complete without him. What of those whose ruin is due to him? They are outcasts.英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
Our trouble is sore indeed when you turn away and will not comfort us. How long the dawn seems coming when we cannot sleep! those hideous nights when we toss and turn in fever and pain, when we lie, like living men among the dead, staring out into the dark hours that drift so slowly between us and the light. And oh! those still more hideous nights when we sit by another in pain, when the low fire startles us every now and then with a falling cinder, and the tick of the clock seems a hammer beating out the life that we are watching.英文原著 · 《Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow》
Let her go when she would! What a hideous world to be born into! Or was it hideous only for him? Everything he touched went wrong under his hand--always had.英文原著 · 《One of Ours》
"What," he stammered hoarsely, his voice broken with awe, "what of the hideous wrongs--the woes and horrors--and hideous wrongs?"英文原著 · 《The Dawn of a To-morrow》
I fell asleep with a copy of Villamaria's fairy stories in my hands, and I had a delightful dream wherein, under the protection and guidance of my fairy godmother, I undertook the rescue of a beautiful princess who had been enchanted by a cruel witch and was kept in prison by the witch's son, a hideous ogre with seven heads, whose companions were four equally hideous dragons.英文原著 · 《The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac》
And Ruth--has all the trouble we have and some special ones of her own. I've an idea"-- he hesitated--"an idea that there was no exaggeration in that story she told--an idea that if anything she underplayed it."
"I, too," I replied somberly. "And to me it is the most hideous phase of this whole situation--and for reasons not all connected with Ruth," I added. "Hideous!" he repeated. "Unthinkable--yet all this is unthinkable. And still--it is! And Ventnor--coming back --that way. Like a lost soul finding voice.英文原著 · 《The Metal Monster》