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We were racing north-northeast with frightful speed, fifty meters down.
I opened the door cautiously, but as it swung on its hinges, it seemed to make a frightful noise.
Is he still under the ocean pursuing his frightful program of revenge, or did he stop after that latest mass execution?
Rodolphe would come; she had sent for him to tell him that she was bored, that her husband was odious, her life frightful.
And the children began howling as if they already had frightful pains in their entrails.
The following day was frightful, and those that came after still more unbearable, because of her impatience to once again seize her happiness; an ardent lust, inflamed by the images of past experience, and that burst forth freely on the seventh day beneath Leon's caresses.
The frightful taste of ink continued.
At last Madame de Renal and Julien had a subject for conversation; he was no longer exposed to the frightful torture inflicted on him by intervals of silence.
It was a frightful moment; her soul journeyed into strange lands.
When the frightful idea of adultery and of all the ignominy which (she supposed) that crime brings in its train gave her at length a respite, and she began to dream of the delight of living with Julien innocently, as in the past, she found herself swept away by the horrible thought that Julien was in love with another woman.
But I shall be leaving her alone, torn by the most frightful grief.
Ordinarily Madame de Renal spelt quite well; he was moved by this detail and began to forget the frightful imprudence.
I shall see myself in those frightful Paris papers; my God! what degradation!
'How frightful that abbe Pirard looks!'Mademoiselle de La Mole was saying, as Julien returned to the sofa.
'This is frightful!' he said to his second.
She was more or less crushed by the frightful idea of having given certain rights over herself to a little cleric, the son of a peasant.
But often enough all these fine arguments proved futile when faced with the frightful reality.
What a frightful nature!'
Into what a frightful course of action had she fallen!
I have indeed read that at the approach of death we lose interest in everything; but it is frightful to feel oneself ungrateful and to be unable to change.
Not the God of the Bible, a petty despot, cruel and filled with a thirst for vengeance ... but the God of Voltaire, just, good, infinite ... 'He was disturbed by all his memories of that Bible which he knew by heart ...'But how, whenever three are gathered together, how is one to believe in that great name of GOD, after the frightful abuse that our priests make of it?
There was a frightful calmness in the manner of this judge that appalled the prisoner.
He moved with alacrity towards the city, and really was so happy to escape the brutal looks and frightful manner of his interrogator, as to lose sight of all other considerations.
Well, this did not satisfy me, for to think of going to service was such a frightful thing to me, that if she had assured me I should not have gone till I was twenty years old, it would have been the same to me; I should have cried, I believe, all the time, with the very apprehension of its being to be so at last.
I would fain have the conduct of my sex a little regulated in this particular, which is the thing in which, of all the parts of life, I think at this time we suffer most in; 'tis nothing but lack of courage, the fear of not being married at all, and of that frightful state of life called an old maid, of which I have a story to tell by itself.
My husband's conduct was immediately altered, and he was quite another man to me; nothing could be kinder and more obliging than he was to me upon all occasions; and I could do no less than make some return to it, which I did as well as I could, but it was but in an awkward manner at best, for nothing was more frightful to me than his caresses, and the apprehensions of being with child again by him was ready to throw me into fits; and this made me see that there was an absolute necessity of breaking the case to him without any more delay, which, however, I did with all the caution and reserve imaginable.
On the other hand, though I was not without secret reproaches of my own conscience for the life I led, and that even in the greatest height of the satisfaction I ever took, yet I had the terrible prospect of poverty and starving, which lay on me as a frightful spectre, so that there was no looking behind me.
I told him that those unhappy distresses which first moved him to a generous and an honest friendship for me, would, I hope, move him to a little concern for me now, though the criminal part of our correspondence, which I believed neither of us intended to fall into at the time, was broken off; that I desired to repent as sincerely as he had done, but entreated him to put me in some condition that I might not be exposed to the temptations which the devil never fails to excite us to from the frightful prospect of poverty and distress; and if he had the least apprehensions of my being troublesome to him, I begged he would put me in a posture to go back to my mother in Virginia, from when he knew I came, and that would put an end to all his fears on that account.
All those things represented themselves to my view, and that is the blackest and most frightful form: and as I was very free with my governess, whom I had now learned to call mother, I represented to her all the dark thoughts which I had upon me about it, and told her what distress I was in.
Sometimes my imagination formed an idea of one frightful thing, sometimes of another; sometime I thought he had discovered me, and was come to upbraid me with ingratitude and breach of honour; and every moment I fancied he was coming up the stairs to insult me; and innumerable fancies came into my head of what was never in his head, nor ever could be, unless the devil had revealed it to him.
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