"Fortunately, I left my wife in England, or she would have been terribly frightened," he remarked presently.

I was dreadfully frightened at what I had done, and undecided whether to run away or to remain and take the consequences; but the sight of that flag-staff in the school teacher's hand was too much for me.

The foremost one went down before the doctor's unerring rifle and cool aim, while the other ran the gauntlet of the three other rifles, horribly frightened, but unharmed, away.

Of course, this sounded brave, but my own belief is that the Giant was pretty badly frightened.

II was thinking; what was the question?" "I was asking you if you would be awful frightened s'posing we did find a pixieor a gnome, in the shadows; an' would you be so very awfully frightened if a gnomea great, big one, you know,came jumping out an'ran off with you,should you?" "No!" said Anthea, with another shiver, "No, dear,I think I should berather glad of it!" "Should you, Auntie?

She stood still and wondered what there was about Mr. Van Torp that could frighten her so dreadfully.

How horribly frightened he'd been!

But to-morrow both, and more than likely Liane as well, would be on the wing; or Lanyard had been sorely mistaken in seeing in her as badly frightened a woman as he had ever known, when she had learned of the assassination of de Lorgnes.

" "Positively," said my father, stifling a yawn behind his hand, "positively you frighten me.

Without leaders or encouragement, and terribly frightened by the scene they had beheld before the village, they had quickly given up any attempt to find his body.

Under Pompey's régime spiders and moths found no tolerance, and a magnificent black cat effectually frightened away the audacious rodents which were tempted to depredations by the toothsome cereals in the great bins.

The girl was sorely frightened and began to cry with terror.

Glad to have done with her, he hurried off, oppressed by nausea and vaguely frightened by what he had seen of the place.

And so it appeared, for the answer came in an obviously frightened whisper: 'There's someone on the stairs, Fred.

" "He seemed mighty frightened lest you should.

When the King was stabbed, and heartily frightened, the mistress took a panic too, and consulted D'Argenson, whether she had not best make off in time.

I am not a child, and I am not foolishly frightened at the idea of being married, nor out of my mind with joy at it, either, like a girl of the people.

In the course of a month the section shot away many thousands of shells, and, it is to be hoped, severely frightened many German pilots, although at that time they could only claim to have brought down one 'plane, and that in a descent so far behind the German lines that its fate was uncertain.

I really shall at last be inclined to think that in spite of all her fair promises of friendship and assistance, and of never injuring the family, the Fairy Eudora must secretly frighten the child in some way we don't know of.

Where's my father?" The man had shrunk back under the wagon-cover, having seemingly been frightened by the soldiers.

Many a buccaneer, in after-times, who quailed before no mortal thunders made by French or Spanish navies, was soundly frightened by the gigantic snoring beneath his feet into reviewing his career, and calculating the thickness of the crust between himself and his impatient retribution.

As he bent down closer to the grave and tender lips, he was suddenly, unaccountably frightened and ashamed.

I was not nauseated by the motion, nor unduly frightened by the wild pitching of the brig.

"I had, by reason of usage, come to ability to sleep despite of the fearsome growling; for I had conceived its cause to be the mutter of spirits in the night, and had not allowed myself to be unnecessarily frightened with doleful thoughts; for my lover had assured me of our safety, and that we should yet come to our home.

I don't want to frighten youonly to make you careful.