3. Impregnable their front appears, All Horrent with projected spears, Whose polished points before them shine, From flank to flank, one brilliant line, Bright as the breakers' splendors run Along the billows to the sun.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
Their road lay among vines and olive-groves; till, winding more and more towards the higher ground of Vesuvius, the path grew rugged; the mules moved slowly, and with labor; and at every opening in the wood they beheld those grey and Horrent caverns indenting the parched rock, which Strabo has described; but which the various revolutions of time and the volcano have removed from the present aspect of the mountain.
"The Last Days of Pompeii"
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
All Horrent the cobra exalts his hooded head, and the spanning jaws fly open.
"The Fiend's Delight"
Dod Grile