"I been trying to throw a little scare into him.

War scare in campaign?

The dynamite scare being just at its height, the general consternation was indescribable.

Eugene suggested that they had "had an extra big scare and had taken to wing.

For excitement, the frequent Indian uprisings, and more frequent Indian scares, afforded abundant material upon which the young enterprising and adventurous spirits of the day could work off their surplus energies.

He thought that, in spite of his initial scare, he had acted decidedly well, and he was eager for approval, but he was kept from telling by an uneasy feeling that his father would laugh at him if he did.

We feel that the author has been trifling with us in inflicting on us this purely mechanical and momentary "scare."

This was just the kind of weather, he reflected, when wolves might take it into their heads to enter Paris again; and a lone man in these deserted streets would run the chance of something worse than a mere scare.

At the same time a look came into her eyes that gave Keith a momentary scare.

"It's precisely as I wrote our people two weeks agotimidity scare, pure and simple," one of them was saying.

A crowded street, a sudden scare, A little rush, a lengthy tear, A snowy skirt that needs repair, Decides the case.

And I think the boy will not be here so often now to frighten honest Parmiter, for I have weaved him some pretty tales of Blackbeard, and he has a wholesome scare of meeting the Colonel.

"Jim, you gave me an awful scare," he said brokenly.

We got into Indiana and have had a yellow fever scare, a quarantine that lasted one night, so nobody could sleep on our train, a riot at Evansville 'cause we took on a couple of female trapeze women that came from Honduras, via New Orleans, and a revival of religion, all in one bunch, and pa is beginning to get haggard, like a hag.

"The great Fogerty made such a blunder the first time," said Hetty, who was overjoyed at the glorious news, "that he might give poor Thursday another dreadful scare if he tackled the job again.