Citations:horrow

English citations of horrow

Noun: dialectal? alt spelling

• 1785, Joseph Addison, Cato: a tragedy, page 23:

  Didst thou but view him right, thou'dst see him black

  With murder, treason, sacrilege, and crimes,

  That strike my soul with horrow but to name 'em.

• 1909, Francis William Grattan, With those that were: stories of two wars, page 175:

  I now, with horrow, saw their object. They would toss the barrel over the edge, then go down and enjoy their dinner.

• 1899, Sam L. Simpson, The Wreck of the Jonathan, in the Pacific Monthly, volumes 1-3, page 270:

  The waves that sob on the rugged shore,

  By the crags with horrow haunted, [...]

Noun: misspelling

• 1992, James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast, The American Catholic quarterly review, volume 47, page 342:

  They uttered no cry, not a sound escaped them ; they were plainly speechless with horrow and dismay.

• 1987, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá Badawī, Modern Arabic drama in Egypt, page 190:

  The news falls like a thunderbolt upon the ears of the assembled villagers. Salih dashes off to break the news of his father's forthcoming return to his family. The dazed villagers recall with horrow how, when the sentence was passed on him twenty years ago, Abu Shama swore he would avenge himself on the wicked village by murdering one man for every year he spent in jail.