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Usage examples of frighten.

The baying was very faint now, and it ceased altogether as I approached the ancient grave I had once violated, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which had been hovering curiously around it.

I was really frightened because I thought, if she realised we were Aboriginal, she might have the children taken away.

Brutus and his men that night Achates was born, only infinitely more frightening, more murderous.

I told her to keep quiet, but, being anxious not to frighten her, I dared not acquaint her with the danger we were running.

To prevent, therefore, any such suspicions, so prejudicial to the credit of an historian, who professes to draw his materials from nature only, we shall now proceed to acquaint the reader who these people were, whose sudden appearance had struck such terrors into Partridge, had more than half frightened the postboy, and had a little surprized even Mr.

Jannis saw how Ali Aga had fallen in the world, and suddenly he felt very fond of this Turk, whose misery frightened him.

And Adam suddenly realized that an emotionless, indifferent Amaranth was not the most frightening thing he could think of.

Only the monstrous, frightening head, with pointed ears aprick, hanging there immobile.

What eyes-and-ears reported from Altara and Arad Doman was all confusion, and the few reports beginning to seep out of Tarabon again were frightening.

But now, with the others gone, leaving the frightened Valeman alone with this unpredictable giant, Flick found himself unable to escape that terrible awesomeness that formed the essence of this strange man.

I made my way to the poor child, who was one of the dirtiest little unfortunates I ever saw, and found him very hot and frightened and crying loudly, fixed by the neck between two iron railings, while a milkman and a beadle, with the kindest intentions possible, were endeavouring to drag him back by the legs, under a general impression that his skull was compressible by those means.

After I had left her I began to examine the nature of my feelings towards her, and they frightened me, for I could neither behave towards Mdlle.

It takes Marie and Dougal two full days to find decent belay points for the hundred and fifty metres of the band, and every morning the rockfall is frequent and frightening.

The French spread victorious across the land, and these Riflemen were bereft and frightened.

When he thought of all that Blinky said, his heart went pit-a-pat so loudly that he became frightened at the very thought of running away.