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Their lovely faces and forms vanished in a flash, revealing monstrous creatures of wood and vine, swinging arms like mighty cudgels at him.

They stood upon a bleak and desert moor, whose monstrous masses of stone were cost about, as though it were the burial-place of giants.

Monstrous, swollen, it looked as if it had swallowed the sun and woken with a fever.

She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her.

In the last decade, Murphy has climbed out of the black hole created by his monstrous narcissism and has begun to sparkle again.

The combination of my stone and his axe must have some mystical power as it allowed him to distort into a monstrous version of himself.

Now think what will happen if, after two or more years of monstrous fiscal deficits, the US is still mired in unemployment and slow growth.

Much of the world rejoiced, but for Americans the end of that monstrous division in Berlin had a special significance.

the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

She was thinking that she must reprimand her home help the next morning for such a monstrous piece of negligence.

A few paces away, a monstrous, meter-high sea spider was staring at me with beady eyes, poised to spring at me.

Inevitably, through its own mindless, automatic motion, it gradually transforms those principles into a monstrous reality.

Or to the guy who makes the subtle statistical climb but otherwise monstrous leap from really good to the rarefied air of full-fledged stud?

When doctors dissected her body, they found a monstrous, stone-likechild - a girl, as it turned out.

In the fall of 1913, he had a vision of a "monstrous flood" engulfing most of Europe and lapping at the mountains of his native Switzerland.

She said she was a monstrous shade on the stairs.

It was unbelievable that such a monstrous crime could have occurred in their neighborhood.

Yi is also a crowd-pleasing, monstrous finisher, who gets up and down the floor like a gazelle fleeing an attacking predator.

But for a good sniper a gun with an eagle sight, deadly impact and a monstrous fire power is essential.

Monstrous demons are able to draw out only a mortal 's dark nature , learning her secret animosities , lusts and ambitions .

By such focussing on a global scale, the dark monstrous jungle which the thoughts and actions of man have created will crumble.

Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside his castle with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world.

One knew nothing, except for a few monstrous legends, of the rest of the world in which one lived.

The plans called for a monstrous sign, the glowing sort more suitable for the highway, and the neighborhood had geared up for a fight.

Yet grandpa did monstrous things. That's why descendants of these people often wonder: "Could that have been me? "

In the heart of monstrous Tarantula Nebula lies huge bubbles of energetic gas, long filaments of dark dust, and unusually massive stars.

The faces leering out at her from behind the shields and spears of the Poor Fellows seemed twisted, monstrous, hideous.

Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation.

The idea of this monstrous exposure of her person was so painful to her relations.

Lost in the labyrinth and facing a monstrous foe himself, can Goku make it to his friends in time to save them?

It is a monstrous absurdity to call a man like him a hero .

The ruler in this country was as monstrous as a monster.

The accident left her with monstrous scars on her face.

One day Callisto suddenly found herself changed into a bear, with monstrous jaws and bloodshot eyes .

Hashima rises from the sea like one forgotten, crumbling structure, more like a single monstrous thing than a forgotten town.

This leads me to question, how can people who have never lived in exile or fear from such a brutal regime support such a monstrous dictator?

China, like most of the U. S. 's foreign creditors, wants serious action on cutting Washington's monstrous budget deficit.

A common theme in horror stories is of a monstrous creature raised by supernatural power from the dead.

As you can imagine, this can be a monstrous task.

Everything then has a bitter taste, there is in me a devilish , monstrous bitterness that renders even death insipid.

the modern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark narrow streets full of petrol fumes , coal dust , and toxic gases.

lady clavering likes to be asked for lunch , and is uncommonly kind , and monstrous hospitable.

The monstrous beast hovers in the air, swerves to the east sun, and then, in a blink, reverses direction, turning itself inside out.

They were like monstrous fire flies that could thoroughly pulverize a man in their iron jaws!

The passionate world of indifference that rumbles in their hearts does not seem at all monstrous to us.

Forests are apocalypses , and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault.

being shut off from the open Channel by a monstrous great beach or dike of pebbles, of which I shall speak more hereafter.

It went without saying that those responsible for this monstrous crime would be brought to justice sooner or later.

It is rather that without material resources it will tend to twist into the monstrous caricature of socialism known as Stalinism.

Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.

Army Captain Stuart Herrubgtin. . . remembers that the scene inside the embassy also was a "monstrous mess. "

Many other European countries had caught up with Sweden and its monstrous welfare state and were now outperforming the country economically.

He was not to do this to her, it was monstrous.

In Medieval folklore, the Ziphius, or "Water-Owl" , was a monstrous nautical creature said to attack ships in the northern seas.

This time, errors in the fire-alarm-notification system led the blaze to grow to monstrous proportions, leveling the facility.

The IMF has predicted that China's monstrous current account surplus would soon reincarnate itself in an expanded form.

Perhaps the most famous legendary squid is the Norse Kraken, a monstrous, tentacled beast as large as an island that devoured ships whole.

Renting quakes, collapsing cities, monstrous tidal waves, and disruption of services - power, gas, water, and phone.

Suddenly, by a brilliant manoeuvre, the husband completely turns the tables on his monstrous spouse.

Unwitting pedestrians risk being run over by the fleet of monstrous vehicles constantly rumbling through the streets.

And, of course, my presence, my existence, caused a monstrous rift between my parents.

They discovered Alderaan destroyed by the Imperial superweapon, the Death Star, and were taken captive aboard the monstrous station.

The edition, which included slang for the first time, was called "monstrous, " "deplorable, " and "a scandal. "

Every chandelier or lustre, muffled in holland, looked like a monstrous tear depending from the ceiling's eye.

Mr Eastwood's camera bores straight into his characters' souls, discovering the sweetness hidden inside his monstrous protagonist.

He is warming his feet at the hearth, a monstrous look of gratitude in his watery eyes.

at the cavern's far side a score of dark figures were kneeling before the shape of. . . a monstrous, flame-blazing dragon!

At high speed, planet-scale collisions create monstrous craters and vast amounts of vaporised debris, mostly melted by the intense heat.

She could best any of the monstrous combatants in the gladiatorial games held regularly on the world.

In the opinion of the cultural critic Barbara Creed, for instance, Scott's film epitomised what she refers to as "the monstrous feminine" .

Is small to work properly son you nice variety, incredibly challenge to my Sa monstrous prevaricate favor this?

The 'eye' at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars.

Among Rome's later emperors was Valens, whose purge of pagans was described by one fourth-century chronicler as "monstrous savagery" .

The rebating evil, they warned, had grown to such monstrous proportions that it threatened to bankrupt the railroads.

A hilarious number celebrates the monstrous ego of Gaston, who boasts about his hairy chest and the antlers he uses for interior decoration.

"Maverick, unlawful human action rules the markets, unexpected and unimaginable monstrous events shape the markets. "

She said "Oh my god! " when she saw the monstrous score. "I still can't believe it, " Kim said.

Frank Castle, the Punisher was sliced to pieces by Wolverine's son, Daken and returned as the monstrous FrankenCastle.

He is jailed in the planet's fiery core, and his monstrous offsprings are cast out of the material world.

President Barack Obama used Wednesday's tax-filing deadline to promise a simplification of the 'monstrous tax code. '

Fallen: Those hunters who have become truly monstrous (sometimes as slashers ; see below). They are often insane and quite dangerous.

Such things were impossible. It seemed monstrous even to think of them.

During the second World War, Japanese invaders committed monstrous crimes, which fully manifested their inhumanity.

him, a monstrous wheel of fortune, a merry-go-round of memory, a revolving sphere of wisdom.

It's monstrous that he should be so ungrateful for all the help his friends have given him.

By unreservedly owning up to their country's monstrous crimes in the Second World War.

Massive, monstrous factory farms that reduce living, feeling creatures to milk and meat machines, in lifelong misery and suffering.

Like most grandchildren, Jardin knew his grandfather as a nice man. Yet grandpa did monstrous things.

That our sense of self can change, mutate and become monstrous.

The Polymorph spell's gargoyle form will now properly categorize the caster as a monstrous humanoid.

Mr. Hill tried to impute the monstrous intentions to her.

I guess she thought she was better off with two crippled babies than one monstrous one.

His oily, insinuating tones, his greasy smile, and his monstrous self-conceit grated on my nerves.

The manifest inequality of the slaves seemed to make the Declaration of Independence a 'monstrous lie'.

"The queer stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes seemed to peer out at you" (John Galsworthy).

A fearsome leviathan lurking the waters of Naboo, the sando aqua monster is aptly named for its prodigious size and monstrous appetite.

THE INDIVIDUAL IS HANDICAPPED BY COMING FACE TO FACE WITH A CONSPIRACY SO MONSTROUS HE CANNOT BELIEVE IT EXISTS.

Once it has assumed this monstrous guise, it will terrify its brothers and drive them away to Normandy.

A monstrous mutation, once implying freakish severity, was newly seen as simply a flip, a mere deviation from the average variation.

Spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, the eye-like object at its centre is a monstrous black hole about 100 million times the mass of our sun.

He does return, destroying the building by driving a monstrous vehicle directly into it.

Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually a pillar of gas and dust.

In The Human Stain Nicole Kidman appears in a monstrous green and gray cardigan.

b. The huge sunlight flamed like a monstrous dahlia with petals of yellow fire.

This, re-enacting the most monstrous and supposedly superseded forms of the holocaust, is the drama of Nazism.

But as days go by, and you do not feed, you will grow paler, and you will look more monstrous.

Still, even with this knowledge, there is much to learn about how the geology and atmosphere of this monstrous moon.

tree planted by the magician quickly grew to a monstrous height.

PM It's a small venue, Apple's home theater where they run employee events. A huge contrast to the monstrous events at WWDC.

Hector: It is too monstrous! . . . It's done! The struggle has ended. I feel I can let go now, and die in peace.

Unlike Boehner's monstrous mallet, they are of a modest and reasonable size.

The monstrous fetus is a thing after all, our China nationals may contain to the monstrous fetus.

They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm them up, easily become monstrous .

Pen was bewildered with wonder, perplexity, fury, at this monstrous and unreasonable persecution.

Monstrous crimes have been committed in its name.

It's perfectly monstrous that men should BE paid more than women for the same job.

In fact, the way most people are hurt by giant clams is by trying to pick them up. They can weigh a monstrous 500 pounds.

What was done to me was monstrous. Evey Hammond: And they created a monster.

Never the Japanese forces on ours land, stopped at no evil, to commit the monstrous crimes which might forgive.

What was done to me was monstrous.

The monstrous monarch monopolized monarchy .

Laverton Fair. Vastly entertaining. Monstrous good idea, Jane.

The writer thinks the revolution sensus of the electronic commerce mainly has three: Imprimis, it is a monstrous new industry.

Drunkards had reeled by, cursing and chattering to themselves like monstrous apes.

Genocide is far too monstrous a thing for history books and grainy old photographs to convey.

The poison secreted by the gall fly produces monstrous growths on the wild ro se or oak tree.

He treated his own son with monstrous cruelty.

Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous intonation.

Man felt the earth trembling, and saw the sky darken with monstrous shapes.

What monstrous brute would seek to slaughter a toddling child in its crib?

Teratophilia is the sexual attraction to deformed or monstrous people.

It squirmed along the ground like some monstrous worm.

It's a mistake to tap your retirement accounts to make minimum payments on monstrous bills.

it is widely assumed, would be monstrous perversions of nature.

Now Tarshark becomes a monstrous zombie warrior, all he knows is to slay each living for Az's advantages.

Bilbo: "There I was, at the mercy of three monstrous trolls! "

They wear hideous clothes to cover their mostly monstrous bodies.

If to the temple, the image of Buddha, buddhist priest and so on makes the rash motion, will regard as "the monstrous crimes" .

Finally, Libyans can breathe easier knowing this monstrous and unpredictable figure is gone from their lives.

The demon part of their blood took over, and they became monstrous giants, body and mind twisted by chaotic surges.

their fragments lay at their bases like felled trees of monstrous stone.

O monstrous beast, how like a swine he lies!

My wife kept repeating Jesus' name to "curse the monstrous storm. "

Mother duck to hatch a very strange eggs, this only "duck" monstrous not only, and looks ugly.

If you hadn't noticed, the ray of sunlight shining down into this monstrous cavern is landing on two tiny people.

Do you believe, can you believe, that they represent 'civilisation', that their monstrous armies can be armies of justice?

Many speculate that its proximity to the mysterious Deadwind Pass brings monstrous horrors out at night.

He hypocritically asserted: "It is a monstrous slander upon us. "

Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

I felt the soil creep and heave beneath me, like some monstrous serpent.

monstrous foes incapable of feeling pain!

Dragonsnakes were known to fight the monstrous swamp slugs of Dagobah.

Finally I heard him coming through the driveway to open the big door, a monstrous, arched portal without a moat in front of it.

Your behaviour in class is monstrous !

Monstrous trick, that Fate had played him!

at the mercy of three monstrous trolls.

then even to those whom you feel are actively monstrous and cruel.

He was a monstrous man.

Ever since, he has been struggling with this monstrous disease though he knows all too well that his days are numbered.

The creatures concerned were not solitary and monstrous beasts, but small creatures that lived in colonies.

If not, he can just cross you up and speed to the rack to a monstrous season.

The monstrous wall is very much part of that story.

All the students were burning with anger at this monstrous crime.

One monstrous jeep starts up.

Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only monstrous words.

This solution which is complete on one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, monstrous wretchedness.

It's monstrous to charge 500 dollrs for a hotel room.

The Japanese invaders perpetrated monstrous crimes in China.

Unlike the monstrous shapechangers of legend, they can change their shapes at will.

Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn't hardly notice the other niggers .

It is a thing of monstrous beauty.

The study contends: "Europe would need to register monstrous yearly performances to reach the current US levels by 2010. "

The CFLs will release a monstrous 42 mg of toxic mercury into landfills.

We need some really monstrous dunk or something to get the whole team pumped up. Maybe a dunk by Yao and Tmac together?

You'd be amazed how many people will not play the Horde based purely on the fact that they're monstrous.

74-year-old Tony Southall grew a monstrous cabbage which was on display at his land in the UK.

Monstrous Bite (Devilsaur) focus cost reduced from 25 to 20.

What can one, or a group of people do when the whole monstrous structure is geared to war?

That evening he told my father that he is afraid of Freddy Kruger, a monstrous murderer from a common horror film.

The excursion had in his eyes been a monstrous gaffe, a breach of sensibility and good taste(Mary McCarthy)

the next morning for such a monstrous piece of negligence,

camels are the only beasts of burden that tackle these monstrous dunes

against some monstrous northern tribe , to be mutilated ,

As Siza puts it, if the 'transfiguration' is not properly understood, the architecture becomes monstrous;

stumps. . . had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures- John Galsworthy;

monstrous: extremely large, unjust or absurd, outrageous,

It's absolutely monstrous to pay men More than women for the same job

Ashamed of his monstrous form

The Verbs of Disease in the Monstrous Novels of Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties

that ' s it ! you dreadful , awful , monstrous creatures

Commentary the Study of Monstrous Tale Before Tang Dynasty this Century

Discern the Monstrous Titles in Recent Years

This monstrous tale had probably its source

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