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  • “They meant to have poisoned us,” she exclaimed in horror,

    The Abbot 2008

  • At once, however, she stopped short, and exclaimed, in a voice of alarm and horror,

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • The sick old woman clutches her round the neck, and says, with a look of horror,

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • World Fantasy Award-winning writer Stephen King, long acknowledged as the master of modern horror,

    John Joseph Adams » Thankee-sai, Marvel Comics! 2005

  • They closed, but the young man got from him and stepped back, crying, with great eagerness and horror,

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • Smiling Kumarima let out little shrieks of horror,

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • Terror in the supermarket, shoppers are in horror,

    Update 1 For Today othiym 2002

  • There was no colour upon her cheek, not even upon her lip; yet there was a stillness about her face that seemed almost as attaching as the life that once dwelt there: — upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: — to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror,

    The Vampyre 2004

  • As I passed over he moved back, and his exclamation of horror,

    Dracula 2003

  • “Who is Roger Moreland?” she asked, touching his arm — “Ah! I remember,” with sudden horror,

    The Mystery of a Hansom Cab 2003

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