"The crew got frightened at something and ran away, with the devil after them.

"Little JACK HORNER," says he, with the easy grace of one perfectly familiar with the subject he is to treat; neither frightened at its immensity, nor putting himself in the way of a dilemma by stopping to examine details.

" "I am most frightened of the swift and terrible tornadoes," said Mrs. Thomson.

Lucy, frightened out of her wits at the sudden call, came rushing to the piazza, flat-iron in hand, and stood riveted to the spot where she first saw the features on which the awful shadow of death had settled.

They seemed to be almost frightened to death at seeing mea "yank"appear before them.

"It's the first warning," said he; "but nothing to be frightened about.

Lou rose, half-frightened by the unexpected interruption, but the liquid laughter of the colonel set all to rights at once.

I'm an old man; I'm less liable to be frightened than those that are further off the world unseen.

His manner conveyed the impression that he knew more of Catrina's inward thoughts than any other living being, and she was simple enough to be frightened into the conclusion that she had betrayed herself to him.

Tell him what a dreadful state I am inthat I am frightened out of my wits, and have such tremblings, such flutterings all over me; such spasms in my side, and pains in my head, and such beatings at my heart that I can get no rest by day nor by night.

What are you frightened for?

In the morning I unburdened myself to father, I always told him everything, and he was as frightened as I. Before two days we knew all.

I agreed to that, and so did Birchill, who was very frightened in case I might give anything away, and consented on that account.

It sounds like an unreasonable tale, or something after the style of a fairy-story, to say that a party of lads, drilling with wooden guns, were able, without being conscious of the fact, to frighten from his bloody work such a murderous, powerful sachem as Thayendanega, or Joseph Brant, to use his English name, but such is the undisputed fact.

Can I read it to you?" "I wish you had no friends that Mr. Trius has occasion to frighten with a stick," said the mother.

But the fat and filthy "Czar" Ferdinand of Bulgaria sat in voluntary exile, eating like bread the ashes of repentance, and mingling his drink with weeping; so that his country, yellow at best, and frightened by the fear of being done to as it had done by Serbia, quit abruptly, without shame, almost without firing a shot.

She who had always been so simple and small, so little used to teach; she was frightened with the sight of all these strangers crowding, hanging upon her lips, looking to her for knowledge.

She was in a chronic condition of being frightened to death.

They will fly as frightened from his approach, unless, possibly, in the intense cold and desolation of winter, when driven together and rendered desperate by hunger, they might be emboldened by starvation to attack a man, but even this is among the apocryphal legends of the wilderness.

Bobby and Katherine had been frightened as children by the stories clustering about the old wing.

The children, half frightened in spite of their pleasure, were quieter than their elders.

He was now replete and warm; and he was in nowise frightened for his host, having gauged him as justly as was possible between two such different characters.

I was frightened before that.

Fred and Monteith were not specially frightened on their own account, for, if the worst should come, they could take to the trees and wait for help.

But, anyway, sixteen hundred Kroner is no small sum for folk in the wilds, and Inger has but one fear, that Isak may be frightened off the deal.