| 1. | As the atrocity presented itself to Mr. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 2. | The curate, I found, was quite incapable of discussion this new and culminating atrocity had robbed him of all vestiges of reason or forethought. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 3. | For the "great" man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a "great" man can be blamed. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | Inexpressible is the horror of dying thus Death sometimes redeems his atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously venerable radiance. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |