Several had ceased their talk, and were staring in a frightened way at the big door; but the great number had never noticed, and were talking and yarning.

"Wentworth loaded his gun quickly, and called to the dog; but the brute was burrowing away in among the men; and this fear on the dog's part frightened Wentworth more, he told me, than anything.

There were frightened cries of:'The bhlood-dhrip!

Then I went 'round the little star of men, and warned them not to be frightened whatever happened; but to trust to the 'Defense'; and to let nothing tempt or drive them to cross the Barriers.

Her face was turned a little upward as if she had been frightened suddenly by some noise.

"He paused a moment in the doorway and peered into the hall, for he had hardly steadied his mind sufficiently to know whether he was really frightened or not.

"For my part, I was now frightened for I had a sense that there was something horrible and wrong.

The neighing was done by him in the same way that he did it in the park; but when I remember how ghastly he looked I feel sure that the sounds must have had some infernal quality added to them which frightened the man himself.

"Then, about the clergyman being called away, we found afterward that it was a bogus errand, or, rather, call and it is apparent that Parsket was at the bottom of this, so as to get a few more hours in which to achieve his end and what that was, a very little imagination will show you; for he had found that Beaumont would not be frightened away.

You will understand I was not really frightened in any way; only vaguely uneasy, and pretty sure she must really be doing the thing in her sleep.

was the question; somehow I was not so frightened, as utterly bewildered.

There came instantly the sharp splash of the cage entering the water; and then, with a stiff, frightened movement, I opened the shutter of my lantern, and shone the light at the cage, shouting to the others to do the same.

The policeman was a highly-strung man, and when he became frightened, was able to see the Woman.

"In a sudden, frightened flash of imagination, I pictured the thing adrift in the Chapel, moving here and there, as though of its own volition; for whatever Force wielded it, was certainly beyond visibility.

Mary was more frightened than hurt.

The remote possibility of such a catastrophe had frightened some timid dwellers beneath The Mountain to other places of residence; here the danger was most imminent, and yet he loved to dwell upon the chances of its occurrence.

The old Mumbo-Jumbo is occasionally paraded at the North, but, however many old women may be frightened, the pulse of the stock-market remains provokingly calm.

He was not frightened: he was merely disturbed.

But first she was obliged to give a painful audience to her father, and he treated her in so violent and outrageous a manner that he frightened her into an affected compliance with his will, which so highly pleased the good squire that he at once changed his frowns into smiles, and his menaces into promises.

"Fail, if you like, and I shall still love you; but you don't surely think I could go on loving a man who was frightened to try?" That was a little hard of Esther, for Mike's fear had been for her sake, not his own.

I'm awfully frightened of those pretty girls in 's company.

" "It's like blood," said Esther; "it makes me a little frightened.

"Dear lad, there's nothing to be frightened of," said his aunt.

Don't be frightened!"

At one of these Dunwody knocked, and the frightened tenant, at first almost speechless at the sight of so many armed men, stammeringly informed him that the steamer had passed late that evening and was, in his belief, tied up at a little towhead island not