My father was still standing up, leaning a little forward as he had done when I withdrew; threatening, yet terror-stricken, not knowing what I might be about to do, when I returned with my companion.

It is worth while to try and realise the scenethe terror-stricken old men dragged away by their murderersthe wives left behind, no doubt under a guardthe sound of the distant shotsthe broken hearts of the widow and the orphan.

Suddenly the door was thrown open and a manservant rushed inpale, confused, terror-stricken.

"Hundreds fought in a terror-stricken mob to hide in a hole that might have sheltered a score.

On coming to the gallows he said: "Take notice, I die a loyal subject and a lover of my country." Terror-stricken, the followers of Bacon began to desert the new general.

But soon it became clear that the conflagration was undesigned and real; panic-succeeded to delight, and the terror-stricken crowd, seeing themselves surrounded with flames, began to make frantic efforts to escape from the danger; but there was only one side of the square uninclosed, and that was blocked up by carriages.

It was plain that Leith had taken the unfortunate old Professor some distance from his daughters so that they could not listen to the conversation, and the scientist's high-pitched protests against our maltreatment had caused the terror-stricken girls to think that Leith was ill-using their father.

When the soldiers had done this, they cut off their heads, which they then carried to Otho (who was in the camp) and also into the senate-house; and the senators, though terror-stricken, affected to be glad.

Isak was terror-stricken and said not a word.

Also instead of being frozen into terror-stricken silence by her ravisher's monstrous purpose, she could just as well be represented as making a desperate resistance.

Satisfied with what he learned, Monks conferred with Fagin, telling some facts about Oliver which caused Nancy, who happened to overhear them, to become terror-stricken.

Terror-stricken were all his generals and field-marshals.

The sober, slow-moving, slow-thinking Flemish townspeople were suddenly transformed into a herd of terror-stricken cattle.

They were the most crestfallen, terror-stricken lot of men that ever I had laid eyes upon, and at four o'clock they were led away by a cordon of soldiers.

Her terror-stricken face was turned to the light; her cries for mercy were directed to the brute's companions.

Hermia was terror-stricken and you were not aware of it.

And aggressively, menacingly, addressing his own ego as though it were a henchman cringing terror-stricken in front of him, he muttered: "You imbecile!...

Then the whining, terror-stricken voice of the mulatto broke the stillness: "Let Travis try," he whispered hoarsely.

He entered the hall as he had so often entered the houses of terror-stricken enemies, clashing at each ponderous, swift step, his mail dusty, his hair wet and dishevelled, his dull-red face resembling a mask of heated iron.

They appeared sorrowful and terror-stricken, but offered with great willingness to accompany us whithersoever we should be sent.

The sergeant, following the direction of the terror-stricken black eyes, stooped by the table.

Then he knew; saw it all as clearly as though he had witnessed itthe ambushment in the blinding sandstorm; the terror-stricken Waco; the frightened ponies; the lunging and swaying buckboard.

He hunted around until he found a tin can, then lit a match and rummaged the barn, amid terror-stricken squawks from the inhabitants, the hens.

The force under Ponce's command was too small to follow up his victory by the persecution of the terror-stricken natives; nor would the exhausted condition of the men have permitted it, so he wisely determined to return to Capárra, cure his wounded soldiers, and await the result of his message to la Española.

She looked at him, her eyes wide, terror-stricken.