233 collocations for scares

Then the merchants, scaring away the parent birds with shouts and outcries, would secure their treasures.

I saw some of their runners dressed in fearful costumes scaring the people and whipping them with long whips.

" "Yes, and I suppose I scared myself half to death on purpose too," said Billie sarcastically, as she patted the dog's great head.

Enthusiasm, even backed by fact, will scare off your practical man, who yet will turn to listen to the theory of "the mechanics of erosion" and one of its proofs"up there before our eyes, the striation of the Ramparts.

For we are not afraid, We've come here in the bright moonshine To sing the song we've made Come out, come out, and leave your den; You'll never scare the folks again.

" "Well, you needn't scare a fellow to death," grumbled Chet.

See, here's where my charge tore up the ground when I fired through the rotten wood to scare the bear away.

The horses were then turned loose to find fodder for themselves, and to drink at the little brook that still trickled among the rocks; and large fires having been lighted to scare the wild beasts that, like our travelers, had been driven for refuge to the ravine, all lay down to sleep, thankful to the deities in whom they respectively trusted, for their preservation in such imminent peril.

; you might have scared the life out of me then.

It was startling enough to scare the soul out of a man, but I held fast and was just about to step forward, when my collar was twisted tight from behind.

At the commencement of the journey they had beguiled the march with stories of tigers and bears met in the forest, but after some hours of travel they became silent; and beyond the usual directions of the forward men concerning the road and occasionally a shrill cry to scare away wild animals, they made no remarks to each other.

No financial throe volcanic Ever yet was known to scare it; Never yet was any panic Scared the firm of Grin and Barrett.

"What the Devil do you mean, you lubber, throwing stones over here to scare away the fish?" The bushes parted at the same time, showing Hugh Branning sitting in the end of his boat, and apparently just ready to fling out his line.

At Poughkeepsie there came up a wind and rainstorm that blew the tent down right in the midst of the evening performance, and scared everybody half to death.

He's sure enough to scare anybody out of a year's growth," shouted Andy, waving his arms excitedly.

A well-formed boy was scaring the flies away from it with peacock feathers, as though it were really a person sleeping.

Then the letters are nothing more than a transparency lighted up, such as a Lord might order to be lit up on a sudden at a Christmas Gambol, to scare the ladies.

Up in his home town they scare the babies by talking about Sinclair.

"It will take something besides a fine bark to scare that fox!"

With these thoughts, when we reached our camping-ground, I decided to leave my companions to continue moose-hunting down the stream, while I prepared the camp, though they requested me not to chop much nor make a large fire, for fear I should scare their game.

The town had suffered from graft, and the mayor, thinking a woman might scare the thieves as well as the bacteria, appointed the chemist who believed in herself.

What do you say?" "Do you suppose she's fat enough to scare away the ghosts?" asked Billie, with a chuckle.

Sit by me drifting on the sleepy waves, Or stretched by grass-grown graves, Whose gray, high-shouldered stones, Carved with old names Life's time-worn roll disowns, Lean, lichen-spotted, o'er the crumbled bones Still slumbering where they lay While the sad Pilgrim watched to scare the wolf away!

Gee, but that seal grabbed the fish with a clock in it, and tried to swallow it, but the brass ring caught on one of his teeth, and he was trying to get it loose when the alarm went off, and the seal jumped out of the tank and began to prance around the crowd, scaring the women, and making all the animals nervous.

His chief delight was to mount the stone wall, and utter his raucous note, again and again, as a carriage passed, often scaring the horses into dangerous antics, and causing severe, if not profane criticism.

233 collocations for  scares