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  • ninefly, it is not a "horribility" it is an epic-bility!

    Teaser Tuesday 12/29/2009 Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2009

  • I'm highly amused at how much fun you're having reading this horribility XDDDD;

    Teaser Tuesday 12/29/2009 Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2009

  • He would, of course, have scouted the idea of putting upon paper what he had neither seen nor heard; but he would naturally repeat not only what he saw but what he heard that was likely from its grotesqueness to convulse with laughter, from its folly to put upon good terms with themselves, and from its horribility to interest as well as shock his readers.

    Current Literature 1865

  • As he gazed into the dark red throat he felt that the wild fictions of untravelled men fell far short of the facts of actual life, in regard to grandeur and horribility, and it struck him that if the front half of a hippopotamus were sewed to the rear half of a crocodile there would be produced a monster incomparably more grand and horrible than the fiercest dragon St. George ever slew!

    Hunting the Lions 1859

  • Or else you end up with the horribility of downtown Hoboken or ...

    Hoboken 411 2008

  • a half the adventures of the same young gentleman in the metropolis; a sort of writer, whose constant tattle about beer and billiards, and eating soup, and the horribility of "committing" puns, give truly an admirable and accurate idea of the conversation of the refined society of the refined metropolis of Great Britain.

    Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

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