What is "hellish"

Usage examples of "hellish".

Mansoul, both in her apostacy and in her hellish rebellion, in a false, groundless, and dangerous peace, and damnable security, to the dishonour of the King, the transgression of his law, and the great damage of the town of Mansoul.

It had been set some distance from the camp because of the hatred of the animals for those hellish Archaean organisms, but the precaution seemed to have been taken in vain.

I ran with unnatural speed from the shadowed, haunted streets of witch-cursed Arkham into the October night, down the Aylesbury Road, into the lane and the pasture gate, where for one brief instant, while sirens blew behind me, I saw the Tuttle house through the orchard outlined in a hellish purple glow, beautiful but unearthly and tangibly evil.

Vor, even more impatient than the young bator, activated his plasma howitzer and unleashed a hellish gout of plasma fire down into the automated factory.

Ren sat astride the white horse facing Blackheart on his hellish demon, he slowly drew his sword and lifted it skyward.

Though Dock 22 was closed and the interior had been purged, too much of the hellish Venerian atmosphere leaked past the domed clamshell doors for the dock to be open onto the city proper.

What had looked like only more hellish space, only mere fogbank dimness, turned out when I bumped into it to be a solid wall, painted or naturally colored gray, in shadings that gave it the look of fog when seen from only a few feet away.

Cut off from the happy din at the fringes, red eyed in a hellish play of lamplight, the bald brute licked broken teeth.

De Richleau might have lost his nerve for a few moments the night before, but he had retrieved it brilliantly in that headlong dash at the wheel of the Hispano down into the hellish valley where the Satanists practised their grim rites.

Carter, hitherto wholly passive, now gave that man a terrific push with all the wild strength of fear, so that the victim toppled at once into that gaping well which rumour holds to reach down to the hellish Vaults of Zin where Gugs hunt ghasts in the dark.

Lord Manos, uncaring after his hellish lusts were satisfied, allowed my Hwili to bleed to death.

McCain crashes at hellish chain places and drinks pop out of cans and moves like only methedrine can make a normal person move.

She spoke his name on a sigh and experienced a wave of shame for complaining about something as trivial as playacting, when that poor, sweet boy was surviving what must be a hellish existence in that horrible place.

Javelins began to fly from both sides, and the swelling meeps of the ghouls and the bestial howls of the almosthumans gradually joined the hellish whine of the flutes to form a frantick and indescribable chaos of daemon cacophony.

He did not even mind the hellish, octopus-headed bulk of great Tulu, fashioned of unknown metal and leering with fishy, sea-green eyes, which squatted in the blackness above him on its monstrously hieroglyphed pedestal.