Horrors [noun]

I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.

She had seen little of the tragedy enacted in Meerut; she knew less of its real horrors.

We never see such horrors now; and I actually envied Pit Town the possession of that picture.

To-day men of science are trying to conquer the horrors of cancer and smallpox, and rabies and consumption.

At last the accumulated horrors shook even his firm spirit, and on June 4th a capitulation was agreed on.

They are more susceptible to the horrors and discomforts of what they were never brought up to undergo.

If it did come to that—and of course it would—I'd get out anyhow, so I may as well go now and save myself further horrors.

Can they forget the absorbent powers of carpet tissues, and the horrors of next morning to non-smokers, perhaps to ladies?

I have seen the retreats of continental armies in my time; they are always a scene of horrors.

His corps bore its share in the horrors of the retreat from Moscow, forming for some time the rear guard.