What is "horror-stricken"

Usage examples of "horror-stricken".

I was confronted with horror-stricken countenances and bitter reproaches.

For an instant the gaze of the horror-stricken multitude was concentred on the ghastly miracle.

I recognized the phenomenon, for I had seen it in all its terror in the Kanawha valley, and I sprang out before the horror-stricken people who had rushed from every door.

But the people, shuddering and horror-stricken, fled in all directions, and talked among themselves of the poor priest who a few weeks before was executed here on this very spot, because he would not recognize the king as the supreme lord of the Church and God's vicegerent.