I will quote but one more paragraph, which, by reason of its monstrous absurdity, may be a relief to these atrocious deeds.

For if history teaches us anything, it is that the Hitlers and the Mengeles could never have accomplished their atrocious deeds by themselves.

The atrocious deeds they'd committed!

The worst men in the world picked out from the worst, to do the cruellest and most atrocious deeds that ever stained it?

Yet even this atrocious deed had been capped by one yet more hideous.

This atrocious deed of Lysimachus aroused great indignation.

On behalf of my group I totally condemn these atrocious deeds.

Surely never was there witnessed, either among gods or men, a more atrocious deed than this.

Someone dumb enough to be sincere as he commits atrocious deeds.

While Glyneth watched aghast, Visbhume performed atrocious deeds upon the bird, and finally let the tattered thing drop to the ground.