What is "shocking"

Usage examples of "shocking".

They bore a variety of weapons, including axes and hammers as well as an occasional crossbow or spear, and they shouted their hatred and anger at the attackers who had emerged from the brush with such shocking and brutal speed.

She therefore no sooner opened the door, and saw her master standing by the bedside in his shirt, with a candle in his hand, than she started back in a most terrible fright, and might perhaps have swooned away, had he not now recollected his being undrest, and put an end to her terrors by desiring her to stay without the door till he had thrown some cloathes over his back, and was become incapable of shocking the pure eyes of Mrs.

Bob Humpty is running such a positive campaign, or we would tell you some pretty shocking things about Bill Dumpty and animal cruelty.

These deeper meanings are dynamically resisted, because their acknowledgment would involve some sort of deep pain or shocking recognition.

And when I saw that the reef was but the black basalt crown of a shocking eikon whose monstrous forehead now shown in the dim moonlight and whose vile hooves must paw the hellish ooze miles below, I shrieked and shrieked lest the hidden face rise above the waters, and lest the hidden eyes look at me after the slinking away of that leering and treacherous yellow moon.

He had not entered far into the wood before he beheld a most shocking sight indeed, a woman stript half naked, under the hands of a ruffian, who had put his garter round her neck, and was endeavouring to draw her up to a tree.

I was at first fascinated, as I pulled up the leather to peer out of the coach window, but this amazement turned to disgust as I perceived the shocking meanness of life in such a place.

And even though I did know that she was a shocking fibster, and not in the least above carrying tales against Oenone to my aunt, I never dreamed she would do the same by me!

And luckily the weather, though as foul as can be imagined, was not cold: luckily, for all the beds aboard Surprise had to be stuffed into those shocking started butts, where the sea came pouring in for the first two days, in spite of all the fothering in the world.

There, distinctive subcultures of defeat emerged, shocking yet mesmerizing symbols of the collapse of the old order and the emergence of a new spirit of iconoclasm and self-reliance.

The shocking brilliance of their color spoke to Kennit of parasitic hungers.

The shocking color reminded Killian of the wild poppies of the French countryside, though, if truth be told, he could not quite remember when he had seen them.

As they moved down the hill they all waited for it, knew it would come in a sudden shocking wave, and each man held his Jaw tight, pulled his arms in tight against his sides, stepping forward in rhythm with the man beside him.

All she could see of Majj Noa Leeberfinger behind the console was his shocking white hair, ruffled and chaotic, as if trying to escape his head.

Now when she looked at the writhing figures of the Oculus, her imagination leaped to the same shocking idea that Lady Hamilton proposed.