It is marked by slapdash, panic-stricken dealmaking. From Wordnik.com. [A Bloviational Fiesta] Reference
There they were panic-stricken nearly to meet Captain. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
"Let me go!" she cried, now thoroughly panic-stricken. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
They ran about in panic-stricken groups like vagrant dogs. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
They had evidently become panic-stricken and left in hot haste. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
One moment she is a panic-stricken girl, afraid as the very word. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
He echoed her cry, and was as panic-stricken as the girl herself. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
For a few minutes he crouched in shadow, too panic-stricken to move. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
And now that the peril had passed, it was Joe who was panic-stricken. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
The men, panic-stricken, dropped their weapons and fled to their shelters. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
"I simply have to go to Mrs. Hepburn's to-morrow," she thought panic-stricken. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
She stampeded to the door in the ponderous fright of a panic-stricken elephant. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
The doctor descended from his retreat, quite panic-stricken at his narrow escape. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Nine land safely; one panic-stricken kid is left standing, squeezed out of the game. From Wordnik.com. [John Schneider: Will the Middle Class Have Room for Baby Boomers' Kids?] Reference
Forrester wondered, panic-stricken, how she, an Athenan, had managed to get entry to a. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan Passions] Reference
They sat together outside the locked station unable to speak, pale and panic-stricken. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Nat Turner was thrown from his mule, then they became panic-stricken, and were dispersed. From Wordnik.com. [The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes] Reference
She clung to him for a little with a suffocating grip, strangling, sobbing, panic-stricken. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Perhaps even then he would not have found the courage had he not been rather panic-stricken. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
From a panic-stricken, wallowing in fear place, Dr. Snyder and her husband found peace and hope. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Susan Corso: 'Intuitive Parenting' Wisdom] Reference
At this explanation the Greek sailors were panic-stricken and dropped the oars from their hands. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
She gazed with set face and panic-stricken eyes at the couple, as they floated down the room again. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Marines killed at the Choson Reservoir, lines of panic-stricken refugees, half-starved war orphans. From Wordnik.com. [Korea's Heartbreaking Hills] Reference
His men became panic-stricken at the first rush and allowed themselves to be slaughtered like sheep. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
He, however, neither became panic-stricken, nor did he hesitate to declare that the report was false. From Wordnik.com. [Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.] Reference
Paris was in the hands of a mob; the authorities were panic-stricken, for they did not dare to trust their underlings. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Therapy has helped, but she is "panic-stricken," says her mother, that someone at her school will find out about her past. From Wordnik.com. [Rush To Judgement] Reference
Schwarzkopf won his third Silver Star for inching across a minefield in Vietnam to lead a panic-stricken company to safety. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier Of Conscience] Reference
At times he became panic-stricken at his powerlessness to check for even one brief pendulum-swing this steady tread of time. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
Terrified by a lunar eclipse, some are panic-stricken, but the phenomenon is well explained and held to be a sign of victory. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference
Returning a moment later from panic-stricken flight, the full meaning of the act dawned upon the boys and remorse overcame them. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
"Who'll I go for?" wailed panic-stricken Mercedes, while Irene danced frantically around the shaft and wrung her hands as she chanted. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
In a few moments there was at the gate of the fort a crowd of panic-stricken Chippewas carrying their wounded and crying for protection. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858] Reference
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