And the day of mine affright is the day you turn away. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference
And the day of mine affright is the day you turn away. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
He shook her, and she awoke in affright and asked, “What dost thou want?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Then sleep overcame him, but presently he awoke in affright and cried out, saying, Help, O Arabs!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Knights and the mountains were cloven in affright. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Seiz'd with affright, their gates they first explore. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Wild from their late affright, and rein'd their jaws. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II] Reference
He turned away in affright, but ceased not to prosecute his inquiries. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
I cried, with affright, as I concealed myself behind the bed curtains. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Which be so straunge and terrible as they be able to affright the stoutest. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
Let there be no phantom rising from the grave of buried sins to affright us. From Wordnik.com. [Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn] Reference
The fellow paused for an instant, then turned and fled as though in affright. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
'You will not send him to the captain Polidorus?' exclaimed Ænone in affright. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Wild cries of affright arose; the brown nets were flung aside this way and that. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
I start up in affright, and hear a passing boy call out to another, over the way. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
They discharged cannons and small-arms in all directions, in their confusion and affright. From Wordnik.com. [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference
Well, let us await the return of his friendship; forget these conspirators, who affright me. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
'Who are you -- and what means this treatment of me?' demanded the boy, trembling with affright. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Miss Berkeley turned her head; a sudden look of affright blanched her face to deadliest whiteness. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
She would have screamed with affright, but he grasped her by the throat, and nearly strangled her. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
She started up in affright, but could discern nothing unusual, and the singular noise was not repeated. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
The little company in the tavern parlour shivered with affright, and cast uneasy glances at the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
He had not proceeded far before a spectacle met his gaze which caused him to pause in horror and affright. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
The splendor of the throne room and the crowd of officers and counselors did not in the least affright him. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference
The round-eyed children gazed at her in affright, then swiftly made off through the tall grass in Vinie's wake. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
As she drew near the door she almost cried out in affright -- her little heart grew tight, her lips were drawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
In affright and agitation, Grey turned his machine into the hedge, and tumbled off, somehow, anyhow, into the road. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
The other beasts stood at a distance, in affright, to see the quarrel between the king of beasts and the mighty Tiger. From Wordnik.com. [Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables Amusement for Good Little Children] Reference
Doth he think the mere sight of him on horseback will affright his enemies, that he carries neither shield nor lance. '. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Afterwards they looked about them, and were filled with confusion and affright, for the pathway was nowhere to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls] Reference
The birds are awakened from sleep, and fly about in affright, and can scarcely find their way back to their warm nests. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
And what terror and affright the message caused, only He knew who looked down from Heaven into the souls of the men and women. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
Her father also related that when the family fled up stairs from the hall, in affright, the baby was left behind in the cradle. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
And Lily had a fit of laughing when she saw Glass-Eye, who hadn't said a word, raise her elbow in affright to ward off the blow. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
This man felt himself supported by so strong a hand that nothing could affright him -- for no thought of Heaven ever visited him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Julia and her maid screamed with horror and affright, as they beheld two hideous forms resembling skeletons come rushing into the room. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
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