Read full poem →From the isles of palm : and higher on the walls,
Betwixt the monstrous horns of elk and deer,
Dictionary Entry
Hideous or frightful.
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Common Phrases
. monstrousthing monstroussize monstrousregiment monstrous
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Poetry examples for “monstrous”
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Read full poem →him, I cannot pretend to live in the way of other men.
It is too monstrous and shameful to see things as they
are and let them go on. Old men may play with
Read full poem →not being in the style of the old play. The patch-work is
incongruous and monstrous, and is moreover as little in
keeping with the characters as with the phraseology of the
Read full poem →Lilly bent over and ran her tongue along Pete’s cock. She lapped her
tongue around the monstrous head. Then she had it in her mouth.
Read full poem →lips, the lips were swollen and monstrous and he had a very large head.
His eyes were almost without color, they didn’t
Read full poem →Snakes, lions, what you will, with teeth and claws,
The perfect miniatures of these monstrous foes.
Sweet words come from the lips and tender hands
Read full poem →But a man can never avenge himself
On the monstrous ogre Life.
You enter the room—that’s being born;
Read full poem →Senses with visions of unopened leaves
This monstrous and external sphere, the world,
And what moves in it.
Read full poem →When events herein recorded were occurring Germany was
charged with monstrous outrages, with vandalism and
brutalities; and Allies and Allied sympathizers sought to
Read full poem →_The Nurse Medusa._ O monstrous men! What have ye done!
It is King Herod's only son