Tell me, my friend, do its terrors appall you into an abject submission, or rouse you to a vigorous defence?
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
England is prosperous enough to drink rum in quantities which appall the Chancellor of the Exchequer but she is not prosperous enough to provide other shelter than the midnight sky for these poor outcasts on the Embankment.
"In-Darkest-England-and-the-Way-Out"
Booth, William
Did suffering in any form appall her?
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf