This so terrified his men that he had to return by the way he came, pursued, as he afterwards learned, by the Indians, who would have murdered himself and party had they got a favorable opportunity.

Among these "foreigners" who will be appealed to to terrify the patriotic souls of the British will be the "Americans."

Hannibal, in order to terrify the enemy, drew up his elephants in front, and he had eighty of them, being more than he had ever had in any battle; behind these his Ligurian and Gallic auxiliaries, with Balearians and Moors intermixed.

A fierce mob traversed the streets at night, terrifying the peaceable inhabitants with shouts of triumph over the king as having been compelled to recall the Parliament against his will; while those who were supposed to be adverse to the pretensions of the councilors were insulted in the streets, and branded as Royalists, the first time in the history of the nation that ever that name had been used as a term of reproach.

If any have been, unhappily for them, brought up to learn Catechisms and hymns which do not belong to the Church, and which terrify little children with horrible notions of God's wrath, and the torments prepared not merely for wicked men, but for unconverted children, and then teach them to say, "Can such a wretch as I Escape this dreadful end?" so much the worse for them.

And there, with fixed bayonets, the soldiers amused themselves with terrifying these trembling creatures during a great part of the night.

Those who had undertaken to oppose the ministry, having no grievance of greater magnitude, endeavoured to swell this decision into bulk, and distort it into deformity, and then held it out to terrify the nation.

It was a military necessity to terrify the peaceful populations with something that was not civilised, something that was hardly human.

Megara, which he took by storm, he demolished and plundered, in order to terrify the rest, but particularly the Syracusans.

No way better to curb than superstition, to terrify men's consciences, and to keep them in awe: they make new laws, statutes, invent new religions, ceremonies, as so many stalking horses, to their ends.

Servetus the heretic, that suffered in Geneva, when he was brought to the stake, and saw the executioner come with fire in his hand, homo viso igne tam horrendum exclamavit, ut universum populum perterrefecerit, roared so loud, that he terrified the people.

These serpents, says the original, are "haud pugnaces," of no fighting race; they will threaten, indeed, and hiss, and terrify the weak, and timorous, and thoughtless, but have no real courage or strength.

Cardinal Wolsey to terrify the citizens of London into the general loan exacted in 1525, told them plainly, that it were better that some should suffer indigence than that the king at this time should lack, and therefore beware and resist not, nor ruffle not in the case, for it may fortune to cost some people their heads.

Your fearful prophecies and denunciations so terrified my daughter, that she died distracted.

Then roughly throwing him to the ground, Nanahboozhoo, still in the disguise of Waubenoo, hurried into the wigwam and said to the real Waubenoo: "'Now, while he is weak and cowed, go out and talk sternly to him, and tell him that if he ever troubles you again it will be worse for him than this has been.' "When Waubenoo came out her appearance so terrified Gray Wolf that he tried to get up and skulk away, weak as he was.

The lightning and the crash of thunder terrified Muskwa.

In the latter they terrified the natives by the destruction of the city of Olbia, in the former by that of Aleria; and so effectually humbled the Carthaginians, both by land and sea, that nothing remained to be conquered but Africa itself.

Though terrified the slave immediately attempted to run away again.

After having made her lose her son, Ulysses was terrifying her only friend.

But there is nothing which delights and terrifies our English theatre so much as a ghost, especially when he appears in a bloody shirt.

But the surf was rough and a throng of natives, striding along, shaking spears and shouting with hoarse voices, terrified his boat's crew.

But, undoubtedly, at this time his own first object was to use the populace of Paris to terrify the members into obedience to himself.

The approach of this immense host so terrified the young King that he left Hungary and took refuge in Vienna along with his uncle and counsellor, Czillei.

Nor was the old meeting-house ever again disturbed by such manifestations as had terrified the community for so long a time.

Containing what will terrify the Reader. CHAPTER VIII.