I guess adrenaline-flooded and terror-struck have a passing resemblance to bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. From Wordnik.com. [The Quickie]
What a chill, empty, rudderless home it was for the terror-struck children, with no one to look to for guidance!. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
Amid the terror-struck onlookers, Ariakas saw that Tale Splintersteel knelt before the throne of Rackas Ironcog. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
A nervous economy and terror-struck populace was going to need serious convincing if some states were to be retained/won. From Wordnik.com. [Meenakshi Ravi: Saving Indian Secularism from Divide and Rule Politics] Reference
In 2002, terror-struck married women with children supported Republicans over Democrats by a 17-point margin (53 percent to 36 percent). From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Security Moms to Bush: We're Just Not that Into You Anymore] Reference
I snatched at her mane - to pull myself up on to her back, but she was so terror-struck that she bounded away before I could find a grip. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
Smiling sleepily, she looked back over her shoulder expecting to find her husband, Brian, but was terror-struck to see that it was her son. From Wordnik.com. [EROTICA: A Visitor in the Night by Baron Darkside (Part II)] Reference
Then spread he his wings to the terror-struck foe. From Wordnik.com. [The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad.] Reference
The rebel army, terror-struck, rushed towards his camp. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian] Reference
While the watchman, who terror-struck gazed on the sight. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Legends and Other Poems] Reference
Well may the buckram masks start together, terror-struck. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
He gazed mute and terror-struck, overcome by his own weakness. From Wordnik.com. [England, My England] Reference
He came in with Doctor Jerome, looking like a man terror-struck. From Wordnik.com. [The Law and the Lady] Reference
As he recalled their terror-struck faces he felt a scorn for them. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference
I saw the terror-struck faces, and the frantic waving of their arms!. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant] Reference
No sooner did he cross the threshold than he recoiled, terror-struck. From Wordnik.com. [Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas] Reference
I saw the terror-struck faces, and their frantically waving arms!. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories] Reference
Towards four o'clock, the terror-struck Townsmen may see him face to face. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
The 64-year-old immediately packed his bags and set off for the terror-struck city. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
Abruptly I slipped out my revolver, aimed between its terror-struck eyes, and fired. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
It came from no human lips, and yet it was not even the scream of a terror-struck mule. From Wordnik.com. [Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure] Reference
Warburton stepped back still farther; stepped back speechless, benumbed, terror-struck. From Wordnik.com. [Man on the Box] Reference
Mrs. Goddard unclasped Nellie's hold and forced the terror-struck child into a deep chair. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of a Lonely Parish] Reference
In the farthest corner crouched a girl, her terror-struck eyes fastened upon the stranger. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of Anderson Crow] Reference
As the lad stood quivering and terror-struck, Black turned upon him, almost foaming at the lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea] Reference
The challenge was accepted; the Natives looked terror-struck at the position in which I was placed!. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals] Reference
Moero, but all declare that our ten guns would put all the villages to flight: they are terror-struck. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference
The women and children, emerging terror-struck from the hall, made every father's heart sink within him. From Wordnik.com. [Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune] Reference
Its comrades are terror-struck for a moment and dash madly into the thickets, but soon forget their fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
War itself held its breath, and both armies, like peaceable spectators, gazed wonder-struck, terror-struck. From Wordnik.com. [White Lies] Reference
But why it was, or for what, none could guess; only upon the terror-struck forms of both the Prefect and the. From Wordnik.com. [Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century] Reference
The throng of men, stamping, surrounded Magnus; she could no longer see him, but, terror-struck, she listened. From Wordnik.com. [The Octopus : A story of California] Reference
Yes, I too lived so -- that is to say, without thinking why I lived; but a time came when I was terror-struck. From Wordnik.com. [The Light Shines in Darkness] Reference
His sunken terror-struck eyes seemed staring through the passing face on the high pillows into an inferno beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The Californians] Reference
The Mexicans, terror-struck at this strange instrument of destruction, took up a new position, two hundred yards still farther back. From Wordnik.com. [The Rifle Rangers] Reference
Barely twenty minutes had elapsed since the housekeeper had been terror-struck by the dreadful spectacle which had met her eyes there. From Wordnik.com. [Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas] Reference
What life was left in the terror-struck city awoke for the day faintly; and still the suspense of the long night remained unlightened. From Wordnik.com. [After Dark] Reference
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