Mr. Dodgson had a peculiar horror of vivisection.

Then there was the peculiar horror of the 1990's - the deployment of child soldiers - for which top United Nations officials reserved their strongest condemnation.

On the road there are endless reminders of the peculiar horrors of this war.

Some awful fates may be rare, but their peculiar horror makes them threatening in a way that a more quotidian death is not.

Melody felt peculiar horror.

An aloofness and even a nervousness was apparent on first acquaintance and the ladies held a peculiar horror for him.

Even by the coarsened standards of our age, Wednesday's terror bombing in Sri Lanka evokes a peculiar horror.

No battle, no valor, everything wasted, and no one will ever know what happened. . . . There was a peculiar horror in the thought.

One writes now with a peculiar horror of the dress of the old world.

When I realized that the loathsome insects were everywhere, I felt a peculiar horror that only ants can bring.