26 Metaphors for terror

"'Yes,' replied the unfortunate man, with a convulsive gasp, 'but he has no terrors of the futurehe is an unbeliever!'

The terror became such a superstition, that the largest army which ever entered Kansasthree thousand men, by the admission of both sidesturned back before a redoubt at Lawrence garrisoned by only two hundred, and retreated over the border without risking an engagement.

So the penitence of Mr. Thomas Dodds might be a very dear affair after all, in so much as terror is a condition of the soul which, of all we are doomed to experience, is the most difficult to bear, especially if it is a terror of divine wrath.

Her terror was not merely the oppression, the natural fear of the unknown, the sense of a nature differing from her own, which she had experienced the past night: it was all this, together with a sense of an evil influence, a feeling of loathing and horror, that made her sick in soul and in body.

At particular periods it is subject to violent and unaccountable storms, whence, as terror is the parent of superstition, probably springs the Russian name of Svetoie Morè, or the Holy Sea.

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

I whistleI'll make youalady's hoss!"' Consuming terror was in the stallion and the fear that, incredible as it seemed, he was being beaten by a man who did not use man's favorite weaponpain.

But terror is a bad weapon of proselytism; the Romans succeeded, with comparatively trifling loss, in surmounting the perilous moment of their first weakness.

The terrors of this place, at the late hours when these said henchmen behoved to seek their savoury rewards, were the only drawback to Aminadab's supreme bliss.

This passionate terror at segregation is a convenience to the herdsman, who may rest assured in the darkness or in the mist that the whole herd is safe whenever he can get a glimpse of a single ox.

The horror of the fact, the greatest grief, The massacre, the terror is to tell. CHORUS.

There most; but everywhere thy power is known, 300 The fortune of the fight is all thy own: Terror is thine, and wild amazement, flung From out thy chariot, withers even the strong: And disarray and shameful rout ensue, And force is added to the fainting crew.

"A terror is Albert when she's beat!

A recent writer [Footnote: W.E.H. Lecky, History of Rationalism in Europe.] of great fairness and impartiality has described so admirably the character of the Siberian Koraks, and the origin and nature of their religious belief, that I cannot do better than quote his words: "Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory.

To which Gauvain retorts thus: "Fear lest the Terror be the calumny of the Revolution.

Your Self, high-seated charioteer, Master of cowardice and fear, Your Self that sees the shining length Of all the fearful road ahead, Knows that the terrors that you dread Are pigmies to your splendid strength; Strength you have never even guessed, Strength that has never needed rest.

Panic terror was no uncommon thing during the Reign of Terror in France, in the armies of the French Republic.

Of "Catholics" they had been accustomed to speak since childhood as of nightmares and Red Indians with bloody scalps at their waists; and perhaps that instinctive terror of the subtle heart of Rome is the religious prejudice which we will do well to part with last.

At the very bottom bestial features take the place of human lineaments, and the terror of judgment has become the torment of damnation.

The pig ran too, and presently, how nobody knew, this mock terror became real terror, and they ran as for their lives.

The dance had terrified the Fijian by arousing thoughts of the deeds that would happen in its wake, and Kaipi's terror became a gauge for us to measure its dread significance.

My great terror was yesterday's Matinee, but it went off splendidly.

Terror, torture, murder, must be the order of the day.

His terror for a moment had been primal, literally a simian's helpless quaking.

26 Metaphors for  terror