There had once been a visit to a doctor in High Street because of those head-noises and the sudden terror of not being able to swallow.

Simmonds obeyed phlegmatically, but my hands were trembling so with excitement that I was in mortal terror lest I drop one of my shoes; but I managed to get them both off without mishap, and to set them softly on the floor at the stair-foot.

She knew there was no malice in either of them; and that only the abject terror of the weak kept them from giving whatever bit of information it was they had and were consciously withholding.

At once the men seemed to throw off the superstitious terror that had cowed them.

The gentlemen both fled, out of sheer terror; but a woman never deserts her friends in extremity.

But vague terror had steeled his heart.

When the accounts of this calamity reached Afrásiyáb, he was seized with the utmost terror, which was increased by a dreadful dream.

My first planif the instinct of blind terror can be called a plan was to lie hid in some thick place and trust to getting the first shot at my enemy when he found me.

She seemed to be in a fearful dream, and shrunk from some imagined danger in the extremest terror.

Is there anything in that plan to suggest that it was drawn by a man in a state of nervous terror?

Valerie, for her part, pictured the position of her parents, afflicted with four daughters, who had been obliged to wait months and months for boots and frocks and hats, and had grown up anyhow, in perpetual terror lest they should never find husbands.

The latter half contains his religious poems, and one has only to read there the remarkable "Litany" to see how the religious terror that finds expression in Bunyan's Grace Abounding could master even the most careless of Cavalier singers.

Captain Parkinson, they must have been brave men who faced the unknown terrors of that prodigy.

One thrills to think of those first few moments of breathless, sightless, hopeless, hushed expectation, then the confused encounter, the slippery floor, the invisible, ghastly terrors of that horrible chamber.

It fades as suddenly into grey mist and nothingness as it comes, and, wet with perspiration, and struggling to keep back screams of mad terror, I bury my head in the bed-clothes.

She'd let you know that a girl may be roundan' softan' innocentand a holy terror, too, when a big, blundering galoot of a dep'ty-sheriff talks o' loving somebody to whom he's never been introduced, and never likely to be, neither." Jeff looked up in amazement.

And so surrounded yet alone, the old man fought his secret terror until mercifully he went to sleep.

I glance down, quickly, and realize, with an unspeakable terror, that my foot is pushing back the lower bolt.

"Miss S. and I clutched hands in a little terror as our small boat seemed likely to run under the great steamer, but our oarsmen knew their duty and we were safely put on board of the 'Woodruff.'

what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see?

Now what can we do?" There was a silence; every one felt that a serious crisis had arrived in the history of the Birchites, and that unless some immediate steps were taken to avenge this insult they would no longer be free men, but live in constant terror of the Philistines;every one, I say, felt that some bold action must be taken, yet nobody had a suggestion to make.

Augustus himself was not free from superstition; but on this occasion no supernatural terrors were needed to increase the alarm and grief that he felt, and which made him, even months after the news of the battle had arrived, often beat his head against the wall and exclaim, "Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions."

The gaze of absolute terror with which she followed the old man's waddling bulk as he went and seated himself in front of the air-tight stove, was more than Johnnie could endure.

Urged by frantic terror, and the example and exhortations of his companion, he battered, banged, and vociferated, until on the very verge of exhaustion; when, as if by enchantment, the tempest ceased, the spectres disappeared, and joyous shouts and a burst of music announced the occurrence of something auspicious in the adjoining city.

Agrippina, whose spies filled the palace, could not long remain uninformed of so significant a speech; and she probably saw with an instinct quickened by the awful terrors of her own guilty conscience that the Emperor showed distinct signs of his regret for having married his niece, and adopted her child to the prejudice, if not to the ruin, of his own young son.