"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.

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.

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.

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 was in a chronic condition of being frightened to death.

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.

They stood stock still, watching us with a dreadful impassivity which was more frightening to me than violence.

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.

My voice, as you can imagine, sounded rather horrid and frightening in the great room, and altogether it was a beastly moment.

What's he frightened of?

Her tone made the night as frightening as the blackness of the pit.

One question which exercised Mr. Dodgson very much was whether the picture of the Jabberwock would do as a frontispiece, or whether it would be too frightening for little children.

The urchins, always frightened before him, retired; their mother would have followed too.

Not finding the old man, he went into Mark Armsworth's, frightening out of her wits a pale, ugly girl of seventeen, whom he discovered to be his old playfellow, Mary.

The stone came flying, although I observed, by the way in which it was thrown, that he was more desirous of frightening than hitting me; it was not thrown with force, and fell several feet away.

Then she went off into a swoon, and her servants, alike frightened about master and mistress, mother and son, dispatched a messenger immediately to Cherbury for intelligence, advice, and assistance.