5672 examples of frightens in sentences

There's no hurry; he won't come down unless our noise frightens him.

But it is hard to tell what he might do in a fit of anger at some injustice or meanness, and that is what frightens me so.

The matter frightens me more than you can realize, Philip, and now you have made it impossible for me to change the plan.

It only frightens and angers them.

that he quite frightens me, sometimes.

Frightens my soul with an utter lost delight.")

His compatriots in the first place dislike his discovery because they find it very difficult to reconcile with their other ideas; in the second place, it disturbs them, because it upsets an arrangement which they consider highly advantageous to their community; finally, it frightens them, as an offence to their Divinity.

And the pain frightens me.

It is said that Van Amburgh attributed all his power over animals to the similar rule given him by his mother in his boyhood: "If anything frightens you, walk up and face it."

Sometimes his patience frightens me.

"It is Captured-by-Crows that frightens you," said the boy.

Then the little creature will not be able to look away, but will wheel and circle, and circle and wheel, all the time coming nearer, until, if no one frightens Madame Puss away, she will keep her yellow eye fixed on the eye that she has caught, until the bird flies close to her and is caught.

"It shall be as you say, Joe," she replied, "but it frightens me to think of the hardships of the way, and the danger of being recaptured.

"Dear me!" exclaimed Mrs. Ellis, "this looks dreadful; it almost frightens me out of my wits to see so many dangerous weapons scattered about.

I shall be less afraid than any of you, for I cannot see the horrid light that frightens you!" As he finished, a gentle, prolonged "Hush!" resounded through the room; like the soothing, quieting sound of lullaby to an infant.

All these trials and disappointments are so purely Providential that it frightens me to think I may have much secret discontent about them, or may like to plan for myself in ways different from God's plans.

"It frightens me to be as happy as I am this evening.

I buy it at the perfumer's; and though that gentleman is quite skilled at disguising me, there's an oldness of the spirit underneath, a terrible thing I don't dare think about, because it frightens me so.

Rap says you must go quietly, and not swing your arms either, for it frightens birds more than even a scarecrow.

I know my voice frightens House People, but let them pity me and point their guns at something else.

I can still recall the feeling so vividly that it almost frightens me now!

"I had another message from the Queen" "George," Cynthia said, with fond concern, "it frightens me to see you thus foolhardy, in tempting alike the Queen's anger and the Plague.

The man in the papers is agitated, excited, wild, inquisitivethe ordinary person is calm, indifferent, and on the whole fairly happy, unless some one frightens him.

Speaking of Vautrin she says, "His look frightens me as if he put his hand on my dress"; and another epigram from the same book, "Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention."

"This idea of social equality," said Dr. Latimer, "is only a bugbear which frightens well-meaning people from dealing justly with the negro.

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