267 Verbs to Use for the Word terrors

The terrific charge of these fierce Highlanders, combined with their dress, struck terror into the hearts of the Russians; who said that they thought they had come to fight men, but did not bargain for demons in petticoats!

In this battle nearly all of the Persian leaders were slain, and its result spread terror throughout Persia.

At length, when it had attained a vast size, and notwithstanding its apparent gentleness, began to inspire terror by its tremendous powers of doing mischief, a piece of raw meat, dripping with blood, fell in its way.

" Jones crept away, leaving Dick by no means easy in his mind, but he no longer felt the terror that numbed him in the deep wood.

Two days later tidings reached them that he was in the Metidja, ravaging the plain and carrying terror to the very gates of Algiers.

The disbanded troops of the enemy did not stop till they reached Palermo, where they brought terror to the Bourbon party and confidence to the patriots.

There all the business of the weather is carried on above your horizon and loses its terror in familiarity.

Not till I uncovered the face did I know the terrors of my discovery, and then, the confusion of it all unmanned me and I fell on my knees" "Go on!

" There was so much sorrow in those words that Basilio for a moment forgot his own terror.

This soon caused me unutterable terror.

"What spirits must they have to brave The terrors of that boiling wave With steed and harness, riding o'er The billows to the further shore.

She believed that her father knew all, she saw herself lost, and, to conceal her shame and hide her terror, she buried herself under the bed-clothes, sobbing, and saying: Ah, papa!

Your children are happy, and fear nothing; ours have crouched in the earth at night, when the whoop and yell of the Chippeways sent terror to their young hearts, and trembling to their tender limbs.

I am a whale at giving advice, and my only consolation is that no one is ever foolish enough to follow it; so that I can humour my little foible without suffering the terrors of responsibility.

From the same source we also learn how among savage tribes those plants that produce great terrors, excitement, or a lethargic state, are supposed to contain a supernatural being.

Therefore, the Mosaic law uplifted his bleeding corpse, and brandished the ghastly terror around the parental relation to guard it from impious inroads.

No wonder that God, in a code of laws prepared for such a people at such a time, should light up on its threshold a blazing beacon to flash terror on slaveholders.

It was Miss Marjorie Malyoe, very white, but strangely composed, showing no terror, either in her countenance or in her expression.

The stern warrior's looks expressed superstitious terror, while the maiden's face was calm and fearless.

"What then?" He shrugged his shoulders and sighed lightly, almost with relief, as though for him the prospect held no terror.

"There I found everything far worse, but I cannot describe the terrors which I saw.

TO MY FAVORITE MISTRESS I saw their jealous eyeballs roll, I saw them mark each glance of mine, I saw thy terrors, and my soul Shar'd ev'ry pang that tortur'd thine.

To calm that terror I would have broken every oath, have risked every penalty.

How could she reveal her terrors to the mother and sister?

an ancient ram replies, 'We bear no terror in our eyes; Yet think us not of soul so tame, Which no repeated wrongs inflame; Insensible of every ill, Because we want thy tusks to kill.

267 Verbs to Use for the Word  terrors