How To Use Fright In A Sentence

You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
Reproof with threats sore terror, frightful malison. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
As the scores indicate - typically gelid to frozen - the shots seem to fall in the unflattering to outright frightening range.
Drake, in his _Eboracum_, says (p. 7, Appendix), "I have been so frightened with stories of the barguest when I was a child, that I cannot help throwing away an etymology upon it. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)

I watch the flowery stars which frighten me; * While cark and care mine every night foreslow. Arabian nights. English
The stakeholders are frighteningly numerous, diverse, intensely self-interested, and powerful.
They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.
Tusking," published in March 1986, was the first of his poems to appear in the TLS: a powerful frightening parable of coloniser and colonised, it is untypical of Imlah's work only in its short lines. Archive 2009-04-01
Richard comes across Mel in a bar and drags her outside to demand his credit cards back and frighten her off once and for all.
Sue is hard and resilient and, though she is the film's embodiment of civilization in much the way Grace Kelly is High Noon's, she's neither frightened nor morally repulsed when violence erupts.
The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical. Translated Texts
A frightened rabbit will bolt for its hole.
The child was frightened to death by the violent thunderstorm.
It is one thing to play-act the gender role of frightened female in a movie theater where the horror is only simulated, but do I want to perform that same gender construction in real life?
Dunstan had drawn his blade and swung round, the horses pulling the cart rolling their eyes in fright, drawing to a halt.
Den suffered terribly from stage fright .
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
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.
Wolves and jackals, when frightened, certainly tuck in their tails; and a tamed jackal has been described as careering round his master in circles and figures of eight, like a dog, with his tail between his legs. The expression of the emotions in man and animals
The Porto Rican boys and girls would be frightened out of their wits if Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas
And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet. Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
We may almost believe that the disorder is born with them, like their frightful plica. A Philosophical Dictionary
In fact, I am so frightened, I fear I might just mess my pants!
I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster. Là-bas
Greg, Could you post a list of the Democrat-cowards who were frighted off by the Decider's "you are helping terrorists" crap and voted for that legislation so that they could join the Iraqi legislature on vacation? Poll: Bush Approval Soars All The Way Up To 36%
Then they sent St. Edmund a message to say that he must give up half his kingdom and pay heavy taxes, or they would do the most terrible "frightfulness" throughout the land. Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light
All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. Barack Obama
I got the fright of my life when I saw the gun pointing at me.
Dara, a counselor, is convinced that everyone is inescapably marked by childhood; she throws herself into romantic relationships with frightening intensity. The House on Fortune Street: Summary and book reviews of The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey.
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
Do you think the newly awakened lionhearted people are going to be frightened by an official hat? An Enemy of the People
It adds an extra layer of authenticity to an already frighteningly realistic film.
The terrifying sound of the lion's roar made his heart beat with fright.
Bhaiya, meanwhile, sent self-pitying letters from near Delhi where he was undergoing military training of his own trials in a world that he found ‘frightfully Poona: chukka, pukka, whisky soda and tiffin: still, I exist.’ Chaplin’s Girl
It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.
May I conclude with a frightening thought for Labour.
I must warn you that this image will shock and frighten you and if you are old or weak please do not look at it.
Slowly, as you make your way around this gorgeous setting, you go from frightened noob to savage hunter. The Sun
I'm not entirely sure that if I was in a frightening situation, that I would like Spiderman to come zinging to my rescue.
Tabasheer , safflower and calamine can clear away lung heat, expel toxic heat, sedate mind, and calm fright. Savory rhododendron leaf can clear away heat, diminish swelling, and tonify kidney.
Get it right and everybody says how frightfully clever and amusing you are. Times, Sunday Times
While we know that obesity is also a national concern, it is frightening to acknowledge the degree to which girls and women are discontent with the body they have, want a body that is unattainably thin for 98 percent of natural body shapes, are angry at their body imperfections, and are obsessed with fixing their shape. Beth Weinstock: Gloria Steinem Is Alive and Well, Reminding Us 'That Perfect Is Boring' and 'Beauty Is Irregular'
Do but assure me that I shall find you almost as merry as my Lady Anne Wentworth is always, and nothing shall fright me from my purpose of seeing you as soon as I can with any conveniency. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
The fact is that our founders did not give us a nation frightened by the apparition of the Deity lurking about in our most central places.
Her response was immediate, she said: “I would like to train volunteer workers to go as outreach workers to help the needy - rough sleepers who are in the outlaying areas and who are too frightened to come into town to the soup kitchens for help”. Archive 2009-09-01
Crowds, especially crowds that become hunting packs are very frightening.
It was rather frightening to think how easily men could do what they wanted, simply because of their superior physical strength.
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
Well, when you stop being frightened of someone and then you stop pitying them, there's not really a lot left.
Febrile convulsions can be frightening for parents, especially as they look like epileptic fits.
She was gritting her teeth, making frightful grimaces, snarling, uttering sharp and continuous cries that sounded like "kh-ah! kh-ah! CHAPTER III
One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls.
Although our news media are very remiss in educating the public on the great economic tragedy now unfolding, they do unwittingly disclose some frightening facts.
The big one is frightened of a labradoodle. The Sun
The bloodhounds, known as the seducer, the libertine, the procurer, are upon her track; she is trembling on the frightful brink of the abyss. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
I cannot advise what you call a fright, and what might be a terrible thing. Dona Perfecta
However, the bi-polar Albert Square resident is in for a fright when she feels a "twinge" in her tummy and worries she is losing the baby. Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine
Nearchus, however, went along the deck encouraging the men to remain firm and—in a move that must have struck the frightened sailors as sheer madness—ordered the helmsmen to turn their bows toward the whales in attack formation. Alexander the Great
The birds took fright at the sight of the cat and flew off.
'enchain' a rational conversation, but nothing could I get out of him but rhapsodies about you in the frightfullest English that I ever heard out of a human head! Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Having only a confused, frightened sense of our one national leader, say "prorogue" and "G20" and frown, soundlessly. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
The prospect of students saddling themselves with enormous debts to pay their course fees and their maintenance is a frightening one.
I grandthinked after his obras after another time about the itch in his egondoom he was legging boldylugged from some pulversporochs and lyoking for a stool-eazy for to nemesisplotsch allafranka and for to salubrate himself with an ultradungs heavenly mass at his base by a suprime pomp-ship chorams the perished popes, the reverend and allaverred cromlecks, and when I heard his lewdbrogue reciping his cheap cheateary gospeds to sintry and santry and sentry and suntry I thought he was only haftara having afterhis brokeforths but be the homely Churopodvas I no sooner seen aghist of his frighte-ousness then I was bibbering with vear a few versets off fooling for fjorg for my fifth foot. Finnegans Wake
On Christmas Eve he started on his journey, and the next four years were spent among convicts in a prison at Omsk. He has described his experiences there in his Memories of the House of the Dead (1853) experiences which, though frightful in the extreme, seem to have strengthened rather than injured him in body and mind, though they may have embittered his temper. Biographical Note
The seasons, frighteningly unfamiliar to your average cook, are second nature to Susan and Margaret.
The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
She was bound and gagged into the chair, and her eyes were wild with fright.
The electrical hookups look frightening, but the luz is very good; we run through an external surge protector and if the corriente is too low or too high or polarity reversed, it is no go. Huasteca Potosina
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
The thought of the long day's travel with the dogs appalls me; the thought of the keen frost in the morning and of the frozen sled-lashings frightens me — The Night-Born
A heavy slithering came from somewhere close and I wished they weren't so quiet, I wished they'd scream in their fright or bang into something, to take my mind away from their oily leglessness. The Mandarin Cypher
To tell true, we were always frightened of her though, milady. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
She realized she had lost the companionable Nick and was once again confronted with the strange, quiet, and somewhat frightening, angry Nick.
the frightened child cowered in the corner
The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
What we discovered was truly frightening and made us question our own existence in this strange, strange world.
Nothing frightened slave-dependent societies more than the prospect of widespread slave insurrections.
Flying in an airplane can be a frightening prospect for some people.
Men wearing masks dance among them in an attempt to frighten the child, who has to walk clockwise through this scene of carnage.
It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo. Jill the Reckless
Fireworks are not private nor personal as they disturb and frighten people and animals for miles around.
She does look warm and pretty next to pasty Edward, but his palid complexion is just frightening here. the previous poster was much more appealling, alluring, and more likely for viewers to actually ditch their old movies and take this one. ilovethecullens (10/9/2008 5: 19: 17 PM) i dont really like it, they could've done a lot better Final ‘Twilight’ Poster Hits Net. What Do You Think? » MTV Movies Blog
This book tells a fascinating and disturbing story that frightened me nearly to death.
Whereas in times when there was some order and government the travellers might be safe in the open roads, and the robbers were forced to lurk in the by-ways, no, on the contrary, the robbers insulted on the open roads without check, and the honest travellers were obliged to sculk and walk through by-ways, in continual frights. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
So they created stage shows filled with magic tricks and mayhem, tied them to films about werewolves and zombies and took them out on tour, playing local theaters and auditoriums, promising a thousand and one frights.
Anne obviously did not share her sister's compunction about frightening her mother. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
I do it to get shriekingly frightened because that makes me very excited and produces all sorts of fun chemicals.
Be quiet or you'll frighten the deer off.
I'm sometimes asked if I'd be frightened of walking through a jungle and being spiked by a thorn.
If you buy the biblical spin of the Religious Right folks -- that make up the bulk of the Tea Party movement -- the implication is clear: Jesus will soon return, send all Democrats, gays, blacks, progressives, liberals, college-educated unbelievers, etc., to Hell, while saving what Sarah Palin calls "us" "Real Americans" -- in other words unreconstructed frightened and resentful white lower middle class Americans. AlterNet
At what point does indecision, does the inability to act at all, become legitimately frightening?
More than that, though, it is a mysterious, numinous presence that inhabits it, both attractive and frightening, grand and gentle, like the spirit of the sea itself, and the peoples that live by and with it.
The rapist who wins women's trust and then abuses them is a more sophisticated, devious and frightening operator.
Everyone was frightened by the strange sequence of events.
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
Animal control officers managed to tranquilize the frightened creature and removed it.
I am not at all frightened by your threats, and I shall know how to deal with you if you persist in interfering with me or persecuting Kilmeny. Kilmeny of the Orchard
The explosive crack of a bullwhip can frighten cattle into a pen and even keep lions and tigers at bay.
He is a desperate character, and in other lands might be dangerous; but he is safe enough here, for the bastinado is a terrible instrument of torture, and the man is now not only desperate in wrath, but is sometimes desperately frightened. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale
They were frightened until our men gave them food, clothing, and assurances of safety.
Even the tots wore their costumes and enjoyed the fun, peering through their grotesque masks, and frightening their elders.
The number of youngsters involved in crime is frightening.
I number that crash among the most frightening experiences of my life.
Frequently these informants were simply adolescents seeking to frighten peers or parents, by fabricating evidence of cult ritual.
From behind they rise in rough, uneven, and heathy declivities, out of the wide muir before mentioned, between Loch Eitive and Loch Awe; but in front they terminate abruptly in the most frightful precipices, which form the whole side of the pass, and descend at one fall into the water which fills its trough. Chronicles of the Canongate
No fictional account of human humiliation and shame can capture the frightening banality of the people's treatment at these checkpoints.
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
It was a hoarse, awful, prolonged bellow, as of some giant ox in sore distress, and when it would stop, occasionally, faint and far would come another bellow, mellowed by distance, but sounding unspeakably eerie and frightsome. All Aboard A Story for Girls
A flashback is a sudden, vivid memory of a bad trip and can be very frightening, sometimes causing mental health problems.
It's one of life's least damaging pleasures, and one that you, in those frightful tweeds, clearly don't take enough account of. THE WHITE DOVE
I understand all the hospitals and clinics were jam-packed for a day or 2 when the frightening news came out, but that was very temporary. Have the economy and swine flu affected you?
She wore an expression that could either be read as apprehensive or frightened, depending.
Of all the frightening specters looming above us in the brave new world of Bush II - and there are many to choose from - I think the scariest is the privatization of Social Security. The scariest thing
MIT Press The bombing for the sake of "frightfulness" (an imitation of the Germans) and the insolent demand for unconditional surrender, and the blind policy with Russia were all blunders as well as wrongs, and have produced a stale-mate where materially there was a clear victory. 'The Letters of George Santayana'
When the future historian gives to another age his account of all that is included in German "frightfulness," there is no feature upon which he will dilate more emphatically than the extraordinary use made by the enemy of their Zeppelin fleet. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
She let out a frightened, high-pitched scream.
He would never frighten anyone or cause them any harm .
Exposed to the light, the monk's inner demons and the phantasms of his dreams would no longer seem quite as frightening or threatening.
She was running before the wind -- yawing frightfully -- her staysail let down to act as a sort of extra foresail, -- "scandalized," they call it, -- and her foreboom guyed out over the side. Captains Courageous
Kostas wore his special protective clothing and took out a big sack and a smoke-box filled with pine needles. A high ladder had to be kept in the air in order not to frighten the bees, which were sitting high up in the tree, one on top of the other, creating a big revolving buzzing bee-ball.
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I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me "wisht," and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation. Wuthering Heights
This transformation, displayed in haunting dream sequences and eerie visions, makes for some genuinely frightening and heart-stopping moments.
You're frightfully good at this sort of thing.
I think: I'll have bushes on the left-hand side where she's walking because that's more frightening than the open fields, and then on the right I'm going to have some of those distorted trees you get in East Anglia, distorted by the winds – some of them look like witches, waving witches' arms; very sinister. On writing: authors reveal the secrets of their craft
The spillcam, which BP made public only after the White House intervened, was the visual through-line of a media drama that fascinated and frightened the country for an entire summer, and enveloped many of us in its gravitational-like pull. Sean Smith: Ink Spill: Inside the Battle to Shape the News Coverage of Last Year's Oil Gusher
The candle now fell from his hand, and he attempted to pull off his wig; but it had been tied close on, to appear more natural, and his fright disabled him; he therefore flung himself upon the bed, and rolled the coverlid over his head. Camilla
A squirrel got into his birdfeeder and he tried to frighten it off with an air rifle, but he killed it instead and was sick for a week.
Largactil, and a few small shots of arecoline, but I'm frightened to give any more arecoline because there's a hell of an impaction in there and I don't want to rupture the bowel. Every living thing
The press conference on improving outreach and education in the cryosphere is great for lots of facts and figures about the frightening rate at which glaciers and sea ice are melting, and the wide ranging implications (it’s a little slow to get going, but worth it once the panelists start). 2009 April 23 | Serendipity
For the _cordon-bleu_ hoped that the lion would exhibit disapproval of the paint and powder by chumping off the offending head, and that would have been frightfully thrilling. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"
I had a terrible fright this morning when I saw you there.
The whole drugs thing does frighten me, and I know it frightens other athletes.
Lights, noises, and singing at night, clearly discerned from the castle, caused much terror to Lady Edgeworth, though her descendants affirm that they were fairies of the same genus as those who beset Sir John Falstaff at Hearne's oak, and intended to frighten her into leaving the place. A Book of Golden Deeds
But what really frightens me is what happens on the next day.
She gasped for breath, eyes wide, frightened, and unseeing.
It's a very frightening place that has been designed to have no natural light.
Oh, my own Ba, hear _my_ plain speech -- and how this is _not_ an attempt to frighten you out of your dear wish to '_hear_ from me' -- no, indeed -- but a whim, a caprice, -- and now it is out! over, done with! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
The fifteen ships set sail from Harfleur, financed by the French for the destruction of England, loaded with the worst men in Europe, drilled by Swiss instructors into some semblance of an army, commanded by Jasper, and led by Henry, more frightened than he has ever been before in his life. The Red Queen
If you give an armadillo a fright, he'll stop, and drop, and roll up tight.
It's totally irrational, but I'm frightened of mice.
He knows what frightens us most is that the next attack could be anywhere, anytime.
Instilling a feeling of insecurity is the best way to scare your population into submission and frighten away potential investors.
His crest hung on the wooden wall, the black hawk with wings perched in a frightful pose staring at her with its piercing golden eyes.
As in, when frightened by the unanticipated attack of an allergenic cat I have been known to sneeze whilst leaping back in an unexpected fashion of my own! Auld Lang Syne, etc.
But to me the most frightening aspect of the whole disaster was that the clamorous Tasman Sea went suddenly quiet - eerily so - and though I waited for its comforting roar to resume, I can't remember ever hearing it so noisy again.
These birds from their secret haunts affright the quiet of the night.
He wanted to be known as madder than Michael, as even more frightening. Maura's Game
The sweat-soaked, frightened, and bedraggled ci-devant dandy hammered at the door of his last-hope refuge.
In respect of our existing building stock, which produces a frightening proportion of carbon emissions, we can only hope that retrofit makes economic as well as environmental sense.
I am conscious even yet of the thrills that pricked my spine, as this monster with nineteen companions spurned the earth in a mad, rushing leap out into space and sailed away into the night to let the inhabitants of German towns know that "frightfulness" was a game at which two could play. The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man
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
My hard breathing was the only noise I could hear and when I looked up, my eyes brimming with frightened unshed tears, he was gone.
I see after a little as it was n't no use talkin 'to Elijah so I just had to listen to him an' he really did kind of frighten me in the end. Susan Clegg and a Man in the House
The horse reared upwards in sheer fright, throwing its rider sideways and underneath it.
Workmen digging up a front garden got a fright when they discovered an unexploded Second World War bomb.
I must have been a frightful sight as I glowered down at her. Arcane Circle
They gazed in bovine surprise at the scarlet-faced visitor, and for one frightful moment Breeze felt that she must flee.
I'm afraid France took engravings and etchings, while it was a frightfully disappointing year for reliefs, with no gold medal awarded at all. Pole dancing seeks an Olympic leg-up | Marina Hyde
Suddenly they burst apart, and a frighteningly large steel staff fell to the ground.
I canna but believe Richard was of a mind to frighten you and nothing more with all his blether about marriage. Healing the Highlander
Here, the music becomes anguished yet mechanical, frighteningly repetitious and full of noises that seem only half-human in origin.
Still, it's lucky it's a proper illness as you'd be less likely to claim on your tour insurance for a stage-fright cancellation.
This demands a solution to the frightening statistics on infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education, analphabetism, wages insufficient to sustain life. Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Acceptance and Nobel Lecture
When she emerged - and she never took long, for she wasn't one to dilly-dally - I would step into the hall so that she would see me there waiting and wouldn't be frightened.
The country is frighteningly close to possessing nuclear weapons.
This is extremely frightening for elderly people.
He was clearly frightened, perhaps delirious and possibly even unaware of what was happening to him.
Within 18 months, he had fallen in love with a pretty, quick-witted copygirl, Barbara Stone, and after a terrifying, if occasionally thrilling, baptism of snootiness by her family — New Year’s at Arturo Toscanini’s house, a frightening experience with a finger bowl — he married her. The Gelb Family
She had promised to marry him, but took fright at the last moment.
By the way, ‘anyone’ can learn dowsing, but some flee in terror after their first try at it because it works so well - and that frightens them.
He frightened me into staying silent.
That gave us the first shudder at the frightfulness of this war and at the principle of fight with which the Hun is fighting. Britain At War
Growing numbers of people in the rural areas are too frightened to vote.
I believe that if they saw me fearless, and coming among them for friendly purposes, they would leave off hooting; but the notion frightens granny, so I am a prisoner. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2
American soldiers committed, their demeanor has been warlike, which is not perceived by the occupied populace as reassuring or secure, but as frightening and dangerous. Jane Smiley: The End is Nigh
She wrapped her fingers hard around her sister's thin wrists so that Talitha's sleepy moaning turned into a frightened whimpering.
In triumph, he picks people up, hugs them, shouts with glee; in defeat, his face carries a frightening scowl and the pearly teeth disappear from view.
Geb and Sahib stuttered in fright and pointed behind her.
Voters will be reassured by Labour's record, and not frightened by talk of a house-price crash or third-term tax rises.
Danna was crying out loud now, as much from pain as from fright. Oren Harman: Ultimate Acts of Sacrifice: On Bees and Men
He's a frightful snob - if you haven't been to the right school he probably won't even speak to you.
Console users take gaming seriously, and their brand loyalty is frightening.
However, up until very recently, your average karaoke bar was a frightfully seedy affair.
Chap it, an 'let us up to hell oot o' this," and the bottomer, no less frightened than he, tore at the bell, and jumping in himself just as the cage began slowly to ascend, clung to the bar, shivering with terror. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
“He whom I fear careth naught for troops, neither can braves affright him.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
This whole huge area was crawling with soldiers, and each wave of a heavy gun resulted in quick, frightened obedience from the people.
She spoke quite candidly with me: ‘It was frightful, the way my husband threatened me.’
Flint, which is the title of the book as well as the surname of Eddy's frighteningly driven heroine, is a cross-genre novel.
But I am aware that there are certain individuals in the community who are endeavoring to excite alarm among you, and 'bugology you', and frighten you from voting for the school system, by telling you if you do, you will smell a polecat -- that it is intended to tax the poor for the benefit of the rich -- that you will be taxed higher than all creation can pay, and finally in a few years, you will be "distinguished" like Jackson 'distinguished' the national debt. The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II
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.
Frightfully good new state secondary up the road, darling. Times, Sunday Times
Such was the media indignation that his frightful suicide was not reported in any national newspaper.
The situation is frightful, but it's just piling on the agony to keep discussing it.
I had thought it should apay [gratify] her to know the same; but my words had the contrariwise effect, for she looked more frightened than afore. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers
He has been campaigning in the junior flyweight, flyweight and junior bantamweight divisions, destroying every opponent with frightening aplomb.
I tried not to hear the roar of flames overhead, or the frightened whinnies of fellow passengers, but the task was impossible.
Apparently under this name there are several tribes inhabiting lands of various elevations; some are coloured café au lait, as if born in a high and healthy region; others are almost jet black with the hair frightfully "wispy," like a mop. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
Grimy wards, with paint peeling, dust gathering on windowsills and numerous unidentified stains, frighten patients and demoralise staff.

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