"Appal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... such they will be found: Not so Leonidas and Washington, Their every battle-field is holy ground Which breathes of nations saved, not worlds undone. How sweetly on the ear such echoes sound! While the mere victor's may appal or stun The servile and the vain, such names will be A watchword till the future ...
— Hero Tales From American History • Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt
... army then was near the hill, When suddenly the massive stones Came crashing down, with cries and moans, While clarions sounded loud and shrill. A rain of stones both great and small Down on the crowd of warriors crashed, On every side destruction flashed, Thy heart the slaughter did appal. Like a strong flood the blood did flow, Inundating the ravine; So sad a sight thou ne'er hast seen— No man survived to strike a blow. O thou who art by this disgraced, What figure canst thou ever show Before ...
— Apu Ollantay - A Drama of the Time of the Incas • Sir Clements R. Markham
... terrible as it was, soon yielded before the appeal to her conscience, which the pastor supposed would appal her. She knew that she was right; and in this knowledge she raised her bowed head, and listened more calmly than many others. If there had been any doubt among the small congregation as to who was meant, Lady Carse would have dispersed it. She sat ...
— The Billow and the Rock • Harriet Martineau
... the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech; Make mad the guilty, and appal the free; Confound the ignorant; and amaze, indeed, The very faculties ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, December 4, 1841 • Various
... the chance of a more unselfish benevolence; but Iver was not. Let all be said that could be said—Bob Broadley was a disappointment. Iver would, if put to it, have preferred Duplay. There was at least a cosmopolitan polish about the Major; drawing-rooms would not appal him nor the thought of going to Court throw him into a perspiration. Iver had been keen to find out the truth about Harry Tristram, as keen as Major Duplay. At this moment both of them were wishing that the truth had never ...
— Tristram of Blent - An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House • Anthony Hope
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