"Brittles," I says, when I had woke him, "don't be
frightened!"'
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress
"But you know too much--I'm afraid you'll always frighten me now."
"Can you talk to me without feeling frightened, and without forgetting that I am a friend?"
The Woman in White
The maid happened to be just then milking the cow; and hearing someone speak, but seeing nobody, and yet being quite sure it was the same voice that she had heard in the night, she was so frightened that she fell off her stool, and overset the milk-pail.
'Don't bring me any more hay!' Then the parson himself was frightened; and thinking the cow was surely bewitched, told his man to kill her on the spot.
Fairy Tales
How the trampers might have behaved, had the young ladies been more courageous, must be doubtful; but such an invitation for attack could not be resisted; and Harriet was soon assailed by half a dozen children, headed by a stout woman and a great boy, all clamorous, and impertinent in look, though not absolutely in word.More and more
frightened, she immediately promised them money, and taking out her purse, gave them a shilling, and begged them not to want more, or to use her ill.She was then able to walk, though but slowly, and was moving awaybut her terror and her purse were too tempting, and she was followed, or rather surrounded, by the whole gang, demanding more.
Emma
The noise and hurrying about and wailing over the cholera had
frightened her, and she had been angry because no one seemed to remember that she was alive.
Secret Garden
She said it was because it was so windy she was afraid she would get the tooth-ache and not because she was
frightened of the ghost of the dog that haunted the bridge in Uncle James' hollow.
The Golden Road
And oh, she was so
frightened! And where was Julia Mills!
David Copperfield
It was partly thinking o' you made me come toward Stoniton; and, besides, I was so
frightened at going wandering about till I was a beggar-woman, and had nothing; and sometimes it seemed as if I must go back to the farm sooner than that.
Adam Bede
If a pedestrian got in her way she drove straight ahead and the
frightened citizen had to es- cape as best he could.
Winesberg Ohio
Surprised and
frightened, Eliza sat down, leaned her head on her husband's shoulder, and burst into tears.
Uncle Toms Cabin
Nervous and
frightened, at the same time fascinated, Saxon hemstitched a linen handkerchief intended for Billy and listened to Mercedes' wild flow of speech.
The Valley of the Moon
'If you please, sir, I'm in a hurry,' faltered Dolly, 'and--you have
frightened me by coming so suddenly upon me, sir--I would rather go, sir, if you'll be so good as to let me.'
Barnaby Rudge A Tale Of The Riots Of Eighty
'You have only
frightened us -you have told us nothing.'
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