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

How horribly frightened he'd been!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Luckily they did not frighten the ponies.

Your example ought to have frightened meought to have made me distrust marrying for love, and yet I".

"It frightened mewhen I knew.

Now, this was the first time that I had heard the Thing make search through the big cabin; but, afterwards, my lover told me it had happened aforetime, and they had told me naught, fearing to frighten me needlessly; though now I understood why my lover had bidden me never to leave my stateroom door unbolted in the nighttime.

"We shall be glad to be away from Winchester, for while Peregrine Oakshott torments slyly, Sedley Archfield loves to frighten us openly, and to hurt us to see how much we can bear, and if Charley tries to stand up for us, Sedley calls him a puny wench, and a milksop, and knocks him down.

He is so palehe frightened me!" Judith looked down at the floor and was silent a moment.

Did you think I swam, or flew, or blew?" "You came on me so sudden!" said Del, petulantly; "you nearly frightened the wits out of me.

The tall, rough-looking fellow who had frightened her before picked up one of the tubes, and then, whether by accident or intention, let it fall, and the tinkling smash of the glass frightened them all so precipitately that they came tumbling out into the larger room.

Suppose that I fancy I am convinced of the guilt of a certain man, why, I ask you, should I frighten him prematurely, assuming me to have every evidence against him?

I looked at her a long time, ready to run, saying to myself: "Who can be with her therebehind the curtainswho is it stifles and torments her and makes her moan in her sleep?" TOBY-DOG, (frightened retrospectively)

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'm sure that a few of you would aptly frighten the Forest Monster out of our forest," he said tremblingly.