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Usage examples of terror.

Fritigern was doubtful whether he could accomplish the conclusion of the treaty, unless he found himself supported by the presence and terrors of an Imperial army.

Glen to hover precariously in midair, all the terrors of his acrophobia came flooding back.

Or can any carnal appetite so overpower your reason, or so totally lay it asleep, as to prevent your flying with affright and terror from a crime which carries such punishment always with it?

The boldness of his entrance into their holly of holies, his affrontery, the ease with which he had taken their prisoner from them had impressed them, while the fact that Sobito, a witch-doctor, had fled from him in terror had assured them of his supernatural origin.

He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache and pointed beard, who was also observing the pretty girl.

No focus anymore, just mindless ambling, spending his blood, dying in profound shock and absolute terror.

He cast another glace of longing and terror at the amplifier as he passed.

The author of Anarchist Cookbook does not see in the individualistic acts of terror he describes the ultimate ratio.

We still do not know if Goering or the demented Dutch Anarchist Van der Lubbe set fire to the Reichstag, which triggered the Nazi terror.

This terror came in from the shrieking of the tree and the anguish of the home discord.

What was he, the son, to find behind that secret door, at sight of which his mother had died with that look of anguished terror in her eyes?

Ulrich, in turn, recovered his senses, but as he felt faint with terror, he went and got a bottle of brandy out of the sideboard, and he drank off several glasses, one after anther, at a gulp.

But what if this so-called antipathy were only a fear, a terror, which borrowed the less unmanly name?

Such terrors would disgrace a cook-maid, or a toothless aunt--when they fall from the lips of bearded and senatorial men, they are nauseous, antiperistaltic, and emetical.

And then, at the promptings of that spirit of reaction that was abroad in those days when France was awakening from the nightmare of terror, some one made there and then a collection on his behalf, and came to thrust into his hands a great bundle of assignats and bank bills, which to the humble cocassier represented almost a fortune.