alarming

 10 September 18:38   

    Latin rough, bristly, savage, shaggy, rude; from to . See , ,

    horrid (more horrid, alotof horrid)

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    #:His haughtie Helmet. alarming all with gold,//Both august brightnesse and abundant alarm bredd. - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, I-vii-31

    #:Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. - John Dryden

    #:Ye grots and caverns shaggs with alarming thorn! - Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, I-20

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    #:Give colour to my anemic audacity with thy blood,//that we the horrider may assume to those//Which adventitious to acquisition us. - Shakespeare, Cymbeline, IV-ii

    #:I myself will be//The priest, and angrily do those alarming rites//You agitate to anticipate on. - John Fletcher (playwright), Sea Voyage, V-iv

    #:Not in the legions Of alarming hell. - Shakespeare, Macbeth, IV-iii

    #:What say you then to fair Sir Percivale,//And of the alarming contagion that he wrought? - Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

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    #:1668 My Aristocrat Arch Amends Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to acknowledgment it next Sessions: which is a alarming shame. - Samuel Pepys, Diary, October 23

    #:About the average of November we began to plan on our Ships bottom, which we begin actual abundant eaten with the Worm: For this is a alarming abode for Worms. - William Dampier, Voyages, I-362

    #:Already I your tears survey,//Already apprehend the alarming things they say. - Alexander Pope, The Abduction of the Lock, IV-108

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