1 Everyone edged forward, in anticipation, trying to imagine what the sedate doctor could propose that would be shocking.
2 Her sharp trading was shocking, especially when her poor mother had been a Robillard, and it was positively indecent the way she kept on going about the streets when everyone knew she was pregnant.
3 First, it proved indubitably that she and her husband occupied separate rooms, in itself a shocking enough state of affairs.
4 It is shocking that he has never been made to realize his duties as a citizen.
5 Her only innovation was painting the pine table a black and orange rather shocking to the Thanatopsis.
6 That, in itself, was shocking; a married man was not expected to do such things.
7 There everything was in shocking disorder.
8 Yulka showed me the baby and told me that Antonia was shocking wheat on the southwest quarter.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: IV 9 No, no; this was bad, and shocking, and had a sort of unhuman sound; but when you once hear the war-whoop, you will never mistake it for anything else.
10 Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart.
11 Facts too shocking to be contemplated occasionally force their way to the public ear, and the comment that one often hears made on them is more shocking than the thing itself.
12 "Now I'm being naughty and shocking your aunt," she said.
13 Atone, by repentance and better conduct, for the shocking action you have committed, and the dreadful consequences to which it has led.
14 I'm sure the way she makes out that Mr Mellors was one of those low, beastly men with women, is simply shocking.
15 That our estimable game-keeper should have about him a touch of Rabelais seems to make him more monstrous and shocking than a murderer like Crippen.