What Horror have I in my looks that frights thee? Alcip.

When the passing-bell doth toll, And the furies in a shoal Come to fright a parting soul, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.

Thus they have jested themselves stark naked, and ran into the Streets, and frighted Women very successfully.

The Seat of Desolation, void of Light, Save what the glimmring of those livid Flames Casts pale and dreadful The Shout of the whole Host of fallen Angels when drawn up in Battel Array: The universal Host up sent A Shout that tore Hells Concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.

And as for frighting children, 'tis well that heady boys should learn to stand in awe, and not pry into what does not concern themor they may come to harm.'

You're welcome; but our plot I dare not tell ye, For fear I fright a lady with great belly: Or should a scold be 'mong you, I dare say She'd make more work than the devil in the play.

My Gown, quick, quick,t'other Sleeve, Manso now my Night-cap; well, I'll in, throw open my Gown to fright away the Women, and jump into her Arms.

The Cat-call has struck a Damp into Generals, and frighted Heroes off the Stage.

Hereafter like me, ever doate on learning, The meere beleefe is excellent, 'twill save you; And next love valour, though you dare not fight Your selfe, or fright a foolish Officer, 'young Eustace Can doe it to a haire.

H'as frighted the old Justice into a Feaver; I hope he'll disinherit him too for an Ass; for though he be grave with years, he's a great Baby.

There is nothing which more astonishes a Foreigner, and frights a Country Squire, than the Cries of London.

The nex' mornin', ez I wuz milkin', the ceow tuk fright an' begun ter cut up, an' she cut up so thet I run an' she arter me,

Hah!old Sir Feeble Fainwou'dwhy, where the Devil am I? 'Tis he:and be it where it will, I'll fright the old Dotard for cozening my Friend of his Mistress.

Bent on some journey of the state's concern They deemed him, and indeed he rode thereon But questioned Paolo'What if he return!' 'Nay, love, indeed he is securely gone As thou art surely here, beloved one, He went ere sundown, and our moon is here A fear, love, in this heart that yet knew none!' How could he fright that little velvet ear With last night's dream and all its ghostly fear!

Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One? Can I believe Eternal God could lie 80 Disguised in mortal mould and infancy? That the great Maker of the world could die?

I had always, in my officinal state, been kept in awe by lace and embroidery; and imagined that, to fright away these unwelcome familiarities, nothing was necessary, but that I should, by splendour of dress, proclaim my re-union with a higher rank.

Come my brave Mirmidons let's fall on, let our caps Swarm my boys, and you nimble tongues forget your mothers Gibberish, of what do you lack, and set your mouths Up Children, till your Pallats fall frighted half a Fathom, past the cure of Bay-salt and gross Pepper.

All the vacations he speaks as good English as any man in England, but in term times he breaks out of that hopping one-legged pace into a racking trot of issues, bills, replications, rejoinders, demures, querelles, subpoenas, &c., able to fright a simple country fellow, and make him believe he conjures.

Still thank yourselves, you cry; your noble race 750 We banish not, but they forsake the place; Our doors are open: true, but ere they come, You toss your 'censing Test, and fume the room; As if 'twere Toby's rival to expel, And fright the fiend who could not bear the smell.

Spirits, Ghosts, Hobgoblins, Furies, Fiends and Devils, I've often heard old Wives fright Fools and Children with, Which, once arriv'd to common Sense, they laugh at.

Tut, tut, tut, let me alone: I that have feign'd so many hundred gods, Can easily forge some fable for the turn: Whist, madam; away, away: you fright the fowl; Tactus comes hard by, look you.

Good Mr. Conjurer, stand byand don't fright the Gentlewoman with your elegant Profundities.

"O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee?"Merchant's School Gram., p. 172.

And she turned round to me, like a thing on a pivot, flyrin', and all at once the room was dark, and I standin' at the far side o' the bed; I don't know how I got there, and I found my tongue at last, and if I did na blare a yellock, rennin' down the gallery and almost pulled Mrs. Wyvern's door off t' hooks, and frighted her half out o' wits.

Cassio had the direction of the guard that night, with a charge from Othello to keep the soldiers from excess in drinking, that no brawl might arise, to fright the inhabitants, or disgust them with the new-landed forces.