Sweating bullets

Usage examples of scared.

He was like an acrophobe edging along a precipitous path, scared to look down, afraid of losing his balance and falling accidentally, afraid too of the impulse that might lead him to plunge purposefully into the void.

Had Rossi actually looked through them himself, or had he merely had time to list the possibilities in that archive before being scared away from it?

He had scared Bester the moment they met, when he had fixed him with those cold, dark eyes.

Harry nodded, with no hint of his usual braggadocio, looking like nothing more than a scared little boy.

He preached, favoring Moses and Abraham, and Burnside scared himself half to death.

When I was a litigator, I actually saw lawyers who were scared of stepping into court.

Coker Minimus, whose round scared eyes looked out over the top of the sheet.

He acted scared, but back of all that nigra shout was something cunning.

He was conscious of her, bolt upright and motionless as a scared cat, on the bench as he crossed through the yard again, down the blue tunnel of passway, and out to Rue Burgundy.

Just then Garian and Perd Ambur pounded in at a dead run, breathless and looking scared.

Daniel Perdue, for the first time, realized how close he came to being killed, and it scared him.

Robin and Periwinkle, Serena and Zachariah seemed tireless, but Wiggins got sore feet quite soon, and felt scared and complained, so Maria carried him.

Ham-hock Piney remained rigidly silent, too scared to even tremble as lustily as he would have liked.

Women and girls flocked around them, but the Cleary returned heroes tried to escape at every op- portunity, more scared than they had been on any field of war.

The Preost fit it on her head and she was almost too scared to move under the unfamiliar weight.