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Examples
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“They meant to have poisoned us,” she exclaimed in horror,
The Abbot 2008
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At once, however, she stopped short, and exclaimed, in a voice of alarm and horror,
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The sick old woman clutches her round the neck, and says, with a look of horror,
Dombey and Son 2007
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World Fantasy Award-winning writer Stephen King, long acknowledged as the master of modern horror,
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They closed, but the young man got from him and stepped back, crying, with great eagerness and horror,
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Smiling Kumarima let out little shrieks of horror,
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Terror in the supermarket, shoppers are in horror,
Update 1 For Today othiym 2002
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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
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As I passed over he moved back, and his exclamation of horror,
Dracula 2003
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“Who is Roger Moreland?” she asked, touching his arm — “Ah! I remember,” with sudden horror,
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