And now when my friend appeared, a sudden panic seized me and I plunged into the first doorway to escape.

By adopting this course our vessel cleared the danger, and after slightly touching the banks, which caused the vessel to heel, and created a momentary panic on board amongst the passengers, she was steered more out to sea, and by the following morning nothing was to be seen but a boundless waste of waters, extending as far as the eye could reach.

"The League, of course, is done; it will crumble away in sheer panic.

Blind panic gripped her.

In the next entry there is an allusion to the disastrous commercial panic by which this year was distinguished.

The revolution was completed in 1139, when the king in a mad panic seized and imprisoned Roger, the representative alike of Church and ministers.

It was scattered broadcast throughout the land, and millions of credulous Germans reduced to a state of absolute panic andwhat was intended by those who spread the lieblind hate against Germany's opponents.

Fu Chien's army was seized with widespread panic, so that he was compelled to retreat in haste.

This created the most extraordinary panic that I ever saw.

He wondered where that other man could be just then, and whether he was watching them from some neighboring covert, having by degrees recovered from the near panic into which he had been thrown at the time his companion was snatched away from his side so mysteriously, amidst a tremendous din, caused by the shouts of the seized man, and the rattling of the stones inside the rolling barrel.

Now that the meeting she had anticipated these twelve hours past was actually at hand, there woke in her breast an unreasoning panic.

The stranger spoke hardly at all during his visit, which did not exceed half an hour; and the host himself could scarcely muster courage enough to utter the few necessary salutations and courtesies; and, indeed, such was the nervous terror which the presence of Vanderhausen inspired, that very little would have made all his entertainers fly in downright panic from the room.

All Ireland was thrown into the wildest panic.

Here, again, it is very necessary to avoid confusing this soul of the savage with mere savagery in the sense of brutality or butchery; in which the Greeks, the French and all the most civilised nations have indulged in hours of abnormal panic or revenge.

At the first step he fell sprawling, and stark panic was upon him when he got to his feet again.

One man at least, an old friend of John Hunter, Sir Joseph Banks and others their compeers, was above the dismay, and the superstitious panic which accompanied it.

There was something resembling a temporary panic among Maitland's British Guards, after the repulse of the first column of the Imperial Guard, but order was very promptly restored.

A frightful panic came over all.

she cried, in a tone of unnatural childish glee, that was one of the effects of her secret panic.

Even in that sudden midnight departure from the house in Beekman Place, in that unaccountable panic which made him decide to flee from the vicinity of Ronicky Dooneeven in that critical moment he had made sure that there was a proper chaperon with them.

Despite the mishap to the enginecaused by his own carelessnessMortlake managed to bring the Silver Cobweb to a gentle landing in a broad, flat meadow, inhabited by some spotted cows, which fled in undignified panic as the monster, silent now, swooped down like a bolt from the blue.

Beneath its observation Dickie fought with a grim, unreasoning panic that was very like the fear of a man pursued by wolves.

With vision unsealed, we watch the gropings of purblind mortals after happiness, and smile at their stumblings, their blunders, their futile quests, their misplaced exultations, their groundless panics.

The coolie crowd huddled here alone, clutching their futile picks and shovels, grovelling in helpless panic.

" It seems clear from the correspondence in the Archivio Buonarroti, recently published, that when Michael Angelo fled from Florence to Venice in 1529, he did so under the pressure of no ignoble panic, but because his life was threatened by a traitor, acting possibly at the secret instance of Malatesta Baglioni.