How To Use Affright In A Sentence
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The winter closed in upon an "affrighted" population.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
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Pain, poverty, and all the other wild beasts of life which so affrighten others, I am so bold as to think I could look in the face without shrinking, without losing respect for myself, faith in man's high destinies, or trust in God.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance
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These covenants are turned skeletons, fearsome and affrighting, and former respect to them is like gradually to dwine away under a consumption.
Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
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So that the hopes and fears of men are now perfectly awakened, and all sorts of considerations that may serve to quicken and encourage our obedience, and to deter and affrighten men from a wicked life, are exposed to the view of all men, and do stare every man's conscience in the face.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
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When I heard these words, I said to him, ‘O lion, I take asylum with thee, that thou mayest kill the son of Adam and be steadfast in resolve to his slaughter; verily I fear him for myself with extreme fear and to my fright affright is added for that thou also dreadest the son of Adam, albeit thou art Sultan of savage beasts.’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey — why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness — why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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In the morning we began to ascend this stream, and during our progress, we were obliged to keep men in advance, to affrighten the buffaloes and wild horses [26] from our path.
Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824--1830
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The plunge of the engine, that now and again whimpered affrightedly in the darkness, could be felt through the whole train, as one feels beneath one the fierce play of the loins of a runaway horse.
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
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Ghosts could never affright her
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Now meanwhile, Zurayk dreamt that he saw a bird fly away with the purse and awaking in affright, said to his wife, “Rise; look for the purse.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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These birds from their secret haunts affright the quiet of the night.
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Colonel Hutchinson, only till "she was fit to leave her chamber," and whether "affrighted" or not, the marriage was consummated early in 1628.
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
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Now, having entrenched himself, he did cast up four mounts against the town: the first he called Mount Diabolus, putting his own name thereon, the more to affright the town of Mansoul; the other three he called thus, Mount
The Holy War
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But her reception was worse than that of Macready, for not content with shouts and yells they heaped disgusting epithets on her, and were so vulgar in their ribaldry that she flew in affright from the stage, "blushing," it was said, "even through the rouge on her face.
The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873
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Bologna in Italy, anno 1504, there was such a fearful earthquake about eleven o'clock in the night (as [2155] Beroaldus in his book de terrae motu, hath commended to posterity) that all the city trembled, the people thought the world was at an end, actum de mortalibus, such a fearful noise, it made such a detestable smell, the inhabitants were infinitely affrighted, and some ran mad.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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And the day of mine affright is the day you turn away.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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“Did you hear anybody calling after us?” she asked, looking up and down the road affrightedly, the instant I stopped.
The Woman in White
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They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Some circled in the air and occasionally swooped down towards the ground only to rocket up again affrightedly to the sky; for the tiger lay by its kill and resented the approach of any daring bird that aspired to share the feast.
The Jungle Girl
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Before she had been long engaged in this way, she was startled by the sound of his voice, affrightedly calling her back.
No Name
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John was affrighted at the eager enjoyment - the appetite, as it were - with which he found himself inhaling the fragrance of the flowers.
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‘Oh my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!’
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Affright not Joel," Martha replied to her brother, "but tell me whether the _kittuna_ of this Rabbi is wool or flax, or his _tallith_ handsomely embroidered.
The Coming of the King
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This red banner, by the way, symbolizes the brotherhood of man, and does not symbolize the incendiarism that instantly connects itself with the red banner in the affrighted bourgeois mind.
Revolution
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What! man; there are ways to recover the general again; you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion.
Act II. Scene III. Othello, the Moor of Venice
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If these are not mischief enough to affright thee, I know not what thou art.
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Yea, so settled and rooted was I in these things, that they became as a second nature to me; the which, as I have also with soberness considered since, did so offend the Lord, that even in my childhood he did scare and affrighten me with fearful dreams, and did terrify me with fearful visions.
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
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Their valour is no better than that of a barking cur, who affrights all that go on without looking at him, but who, the moment he is turned upon with a stamp and a fierce look, retreats himself, amazed, afraid, and ashamed. '
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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Then sleep overcame him, but presently he awoke in affright and cried out, saying, Help, O Arabs!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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As she turned in affright she was confronted by a white man.
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“I never wrote it,” she gasped affrightedly; “I know nothing about it!”
The Woman in White
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In the town of New Madrid, Lorenzo Dow heard "The screams of the affrighted inhabitants running to and fro, not knowing where to go, or what to do -- the cries of the fowls and beasts of every species -- the cracking of trees falling, and the roaring of the Mississippi.
Landon Jones: The New Madrid Earthquake: 200 Years Later
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It is sufficient for the utmost fervour of gratitude that we are saved from punishments, too great to be conceived; but our salvation is surely not complete, till by the illumination from above, we are made to know 'the exceeding sinfulness of sin,' and that horribleness in its nature, which, while it involves all these frightful consequences, is yet, of itself more affrightful to a regenerated soul than those consequences.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
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What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he’s yours.
Othello, the Moore of Venice
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The voice that was praying for me faltered and sank low — then rose on a sudden, and called affrightedly, called despairingly to me to come away.
The Woman in White
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When the first crows rose in the air, cawing affrightedly, he did not hear.
The Waste Lands
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Now we had picked up on the beach some small matter of victual from the wreck and husbanded it carefully, eating but once every day or two, in our fear lest it should fail us and we die miserably of famine or affright.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Sometimes thou appearest to my affrighted Imagination, sweating in the Mines of
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
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“He whom I fear careth naught for troops, neither can braves affright him.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The noise suddenly awoke Helen, and her scattered faculties not immediately recollecting themselves, she felt an instant impression that all had indeed been but a dream; and starting in affright, she exclaimed, – Where am I?
The Scottish Chiefs
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It seemed to her to grow bigger and bigger as the darkness deepened, and its green eyes glared as large as halfpennies in her affrighted vision as the thunder came booming along the heights from the Willarden-road.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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Tell me, why this strong young colt, foaled in some peaceful valley of Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey -- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness -- why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
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The Misbelievers at this cry awoke in affright and snatching up their arms, fell one upon other till the morning, when most part of them were dead bodies and but few remained.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This red banner, by the way, symbolizes the brotherhood of man, and does not symbolize the incendiarism that instantly connects itself with the red banner in the affrighted bourgeois mind.
Revolution
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Hearing these words he feared with exceeding fear; but the slave girl, seeing his affright, said to him, No evil is meant to thee: naught but good awaiteth thee.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Peaceful cities are affrighted by the crack of rifles and the snarl of machine-guns, and the hearts of the shuddering are shaken by the roar of dynamite.
WANTED: A NEW LAW OF DEVELOPMENT
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a bell on board so as to affrighten the horses and thereby endanger the lives of the passengers.
A Portrait of Old George Town
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Before him on the ground he felt the bundle which Sarah had fetched out of the house - his own knapsack and sketchbook - and affrighted, he stood upright again.
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She starts awake in affright, calling Siegmund, and finds herself alone.
The Wagnerian Romances
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The trembling women were smitten into an ecstasy of bewildered fear (as one of the words, 'affrighted' might more accurately be rendered), and his consolation to them, 'Be not affrighted, ye seek Jesus,' suggests that, in all the great sweep of the unseen universe, whatsoever beings may people that to us apparently waste and solitary space, howsoever many they may be,
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
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These birds from their secret haunts affright the quiet of the night.
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She would almost stop, as though climbing a mountain, then rapidly rolling to right and left as she gained the summit of a huge sea, she steadied herself and paused for a moment as though affrighted at the yawning precipice before her.
Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
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So she dismounted and gave him a cuff,6 whereupon he awoke in affright and said to her, “O m lady, praised be Allah for thy safe coming!”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he's yours.
Othello, the Moor of Venice
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What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he is yours.
Othello
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All movement ceases, the sky clears, the heavens are as brass; the slightest whisper seems sacrilege, and man becomes timid, affrighted at the sound of his own voice.
THE WHITE SILENCE
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The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
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Between him and the wife lies the young girl, who has fainted from affright.
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What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he's yours.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4
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No wonder the wolves start back in affright; no wonder the vultures, after stooping low, ply their wings in quick nervous stroke, and soar up again!
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Suddenly the horse swerved to one side, in affright as the electric fluid darted in a quivering, yellow line from the black clouds, lighting up the landscape, and showing the anxious rider that he was near the turnpike road which led to the main street.
Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
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During the days and affrightful nights of my disease, when my limbs were swollen, and my stomach refused to retain the food -- taken in in sorrow, then I looked with pleasure on the scheme: but as soon as dry frosty weather came, or the rains and damps passed off, and I was filled with elastic health, from crown to sole, then the thought of the weight of pecuniary obligation from so many people reconciled me; but I have broken off my story.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin.
Les Miserables
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It was indeed a "shiner" of aggravated aspect, and Isidore cringed as it met his affrighted gaze.
Little Citizens
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Then, tottering down to the parlour, with a voice hollow from affright, and a face pale as death, she tremulously articulated, 'where is my sister?'
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a general massacre, fled in affrighted haste to Jerusalem.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The corridor, as he glances affrightedly up and down, is empty.
The Haunted Chamber A Novel
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Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey -- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness -- why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright?
Moby Dick, or, the whale
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Maid in the same instant of time; and there was a great screaming and crying out in the night, that surely affrighted us both; yet did hurt our hearts the more; for it did be the utter cryings and terror of poor humans in the night of that Land.
The Night Land
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To this opinion of Galen, almost all the Greeks and Arabians subscribe, the Latins new and old, internae, tenebrae offuscant animum, ut externae nocent pueris, as children are affrighted in the dark, so are melancholy men at all times, [2665] as having the inward cause with them, and still carrying it about.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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He shook her, and she awoke in affright and asked, “What dost thou want?”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
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The voice that was praying for me faltered and sank low -- then rose on a sudden, and called affrightedly, called despairingly to me to come away.
The Woman in White
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And the day of mine affright is the day you turn away:
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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That Piece of Ground lay for some Years unlaboured; and trenching it, the Gardner found them, which affrighted him the
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
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The dressmaker, with her hands still clasped, looked affrightedly from the one to the other of her two companions.
Our Mutual Friend
