5672 examples of frighten in sentences

'I'll send 'er husband to frighten 'im.'

Yes.' "'Frighten 'im out of 'is boots, and make him give 'er up,' I ses.

Artful 'Arry, he's called, and, for 'arf-a-quid, say, he'd frighten Uncle Dick 'arf to death.

Then you can frighten your enemy, or at least prevent him from eating you.

It now looked as if the English government intended to treat the Bostonians as rebels, to coerce them by armed men, to frighten them into submission to all its unwise measures.

If the criminal law forbids suicide, that is not an argument valid in the Church; and besides, the prohibition is ridiculous; for what penalty can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?

And I think the boy will not be here so often now to frighten honest Parmiter, for I have weaved him some pretty tales of Blackbeard, and he has a wholesome scare of meeting the Colonel.

Frighten him then away! '

There were no soldiers sent to our villages to frighten our women and children, and to take our young men prisoners.

They went, like cowards as they were, to frighten a woman.

They showed us their terrible horns, but they tried to frighten us in vain.

" "The proud eagle seeks to frighten the timid bird that follows it," said the maiden; "but Red Deer should not speak such angry words to the woman that will venture her life for him.

There let him drink, and boast, and frighten women.

fear nothing: I have been upthe danger is overthe fire is got underand how, foolish devil, [to Dorcas,] could you thus, by your hideous yell, alarm and frighten my angel!

He extorted from me a promise of forgiveness, and that I would see him next day, as if nothing had happened: but if it were possible to escape from a wretch, who, as I have too much reason to believe, formed a plot to fire the house, to frighten me, almost naked, into his arms, how could I see him next day?

I found great difficulty in so far repressing them, that they would not frighten the herd which was now close to the enclosure; but finally succeeded in keeping them quiet, by promising that each should have one for his own.

Still, dear, she does frighten me, I can't tell why.

They frighten me.

She never charged home, she did not even touch the elephant or any of the coolies, but evidently trusted to frighten her assailants away by a bold show and a fierce outcry.

Boggley tries to frighten me with tales of dâk-bungalows and jungly cooking, but I won't be frightened; I am looking forward to it all too much.

I hear him long before I see him, for he carries a stick with jingling bells at the end to frighten away animals as he comes through the jungle.

He showed them magnified abominations enough to frighten all the children into fits, and dilated on horrors enough to spoil all appetites: he proved to them that, though they had the finest water in the world all over the town, they had contrived to poison almost every drop of it; he waxed eloquent, witty, sarcastic; and the net result was a general grumble.

"But it will be so much betterfor Veronica, too," she said softly, for she knew how to frighten him.

That young men sow their wild oats, and that I was more nice than wise, and that I would frighten the gentlemen away from me.

Thinking to frighten them off, we fired a shot or two at them, but the noise only called up from the water and out of the fens, about as many more of their unwieldy companions, and we were more closely beset than before.

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