• I am none the wiser for it
• it will put some stomach into him
• that makes all the difference
• it will put some stomach into him
• from the first, from the onset
• in a stupor of dismay, paralysed with horror
• to hang up one's fiddle
• he stood transfixed with horror
• he stood transfixed with horror
• to recoil from a degrading action
• to recoil from a degrading action