1637 examples of fright in sentences

When we had come near the gate, the Tories now well sobered by fright, Colonel Gansevoort himself hailed, and again the sergeant replied, but this time in a respectful tone, after which we heard the command to open the port.

The idea of the dead woman popped into his imagination, and gave him a hearty fright; what had happened to her in the early night might very well happen to him before morning.

As the face comes closer her fear grows, until she wakes with a start of terror; she says she would die of fright if the face ever reached her before she awoke.

He looked down at it, bewildered; then up, fright in his face.

Her eyes were round with fright.

"Well, of all the nerve!" began Two-eighteen, turning to the mirror in a sort of fright.

She stood staring at him, eyes and lips wide with fright now.

My three little sisters had never appeared to such disadvantage in my eyes, as they did at the present moment; in vain I tried to shake them offthey only clung the closer, from fright, on being told of their grandmother's arrival.

Often and often would the old nurse say: "You needn't stand before the glass, Miss Amythere is nothing to look at," or when in a bad humor, "Don't make such faces, childyou have no beauty to spare," and I can very well remember how both would endeavor to persuade me that I was the most veritable little fright that ever existed, and quite a bugbear to my relations.

I knew very well that I was neither a fright, an Indian, nor a cannibal; and the pains which they took to convince me to the contrary led me to give myself credit for much more beauty than I really possessed.

'Mid the uproar of the house, Fanny, in her shame and fright, Wished herself indeed a mouse, But to run and hide from sight.

Yet still the Hatter drinks his tea, The Duchess finds a moral, And Tweedledum and Tweedledee Forget in fright their quarrel.

I sing too 'Here's to Croton' and 'Zacynthus O 'tis fair,' And 'Eastward to Lacinium:'the bruiser Milo there His single self ate eighty loaves; there also did he pull Down from its mountain-dwelling, by one hoof grasped, a bull, And gave it Amaryllis: the maidens screamed with fright; As for the owner of the bull he only laughed outright.

It was not a question of blind fright, as immediately after gaining freedom he set about most systematically to get rid of his load.

I was at her, and she could see the fright long before she knew the love.

And then I thought of how I caught an eel in the Corriemuir burn and chivied her about with it, until she ran screaming under my mother's apron half mad with fright, and my father gave me one on the ear-hole with the porridge stick which knocked me and my eel under the kitchen dresser.

Fright has given me an appetite.

The helmsman turned to me with a look of silly fright on his face, as the wheel revolved useless in his hands.

"You should have witnessed Wadakimba's fright at my coming back from the dead.

A paralysis of fright gripped Cora McBride.

He started in hair-trigger fright.

It just then occurred to Westcott, who had recovered from his first fright, and who for some time had neither prayed to God nor cursed his luck, that he might save himself by swimming.

Add to this that he was encumbered by Katy, that his fright now returned, and that he made the mistake so often made by the best of swimmers under excitement, of wasting power by swimming too high, and you have the causes of rapid exhaustion.

Thus developed a spirit of panic, like the fright of theater-goers crowding toward the door at the cry of fire.

Thou and thy idle passions, that the sight Of death and speedy vengeance may not fright Thy very soul with horror.

1637 examples of  fright  in sentences