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    panic-stricken


    1. When Diana landed Wolf tried to prepare her, but when she saw them all gathered around him she became panic-stricken


    2. Every broadcast media centre gave out a repeated warning to head for the nearest temporary shelter – which at least would protect from radiation, if not intense heat – until transport arrived to ferry the panic-stricken, the terrified, and the angry to their assigned subterranean compound


    3. As Parker, the Primagnon, stood there, waiting for the panic-stricken mob to settle down, he flexed his powerful intellect and let his mind reach out and envelope the personalities of the hundreds of the human being cowering before him


    4. By this time the sun was starting to make its appearance, so Rory returned to the Land Rover, not noticing a panic-stricken head ducking out of sight beneath a loose tarpaulin in the back of the vehicle


    5. As they passed out of the Damascus gate, they encountered a number of soldiers fleeing into the city more or less panic-stricken, and this caused them to pause for a few minutes; but when nothing more developed, they resumed their journey


    6. Panic-stricken, he stared at his arms


    7. Mum looked panic-stricken, there among her pots - pans and


    8. panic-stricken look on my face that finally coaxed him into the room


    9. His hands were both at his throat, though he could not remember having moved them there, as an apparent result of his involuntary reflexes as his adrenaline flowed in a panic-stricken attempt to fend off that evil which tormented him


    10. The deer slug slammed into the back of the running, panic-stricken, Larry Rollins, exploded his

    11. Not more than thirty feet from him was a woman crouching in panic-stricken horror with her hands clasped to her chest


    12. The panic-stricken husband tried every way to find out where his wife had gone


    13. Lucifer had grown increasingly upset, and now his eyes appeared panic-stricken and they were


    14. She was panic-stricken… Dismayed… Where would she turn? Where would she seek shelter? Her husband was sound asleep in the very same room, knowing nothing of her problem


    15. Panic-stricken and confused, Hal glanced up and found Thomas backing away with blood dripping from a gash across his face


    16. Flight, panic-stricken flight from whatever it was that had happened to him, flight into austerity, into a frantic concentration on saving and being saved, was what he was suddenly set on


    17. It stretches for miles along the coast, and is full of paths and roads that lead you to unexpected lovelinesses--sudden glimpses of the sea between huge beech trunks on grassy plateaus; deep ravines, their sides clothed with moss, with water trickling down over green stones to the sea out in the sun at the bottom; silent glades of bracken, silvery in the afternoon light, where fallow deer examine you for one brief moment of curiosity before they spring away, panic-stricken, into the deeper shadows of the beeches


    18. Smitty, wide-eyed and panic-stricken, pointed frantically out the window towards the parking garage


    19. Suddenly the glass door opened, and she jumped so violently that she nearly fell off her chair, and she fled upstairs, panic-stricken, without even looking to see if it were Ingram


    20. Annalise, panic-stricken lest she who possessed so many should be the next victim, poured out the tale of the missing money, of the plain motive for the murder, with a convincingness, a naked truth, that stabbed Priscilla to the heart with each clinching

    21. "But you were panic-stricken


    22. He was afraid of this as little children are sometimes panic-stricken


    23. The wench, seeing that her master was coming and knowing that his temper was terrible, frightened and panic-stricken made for the bed of Sancho Panza, who still slept, and crouching upon it made a ball of herself


    24. But now, having attained my effect, I was suddenly panic-stricken


    25. We were quite panic-stricken at the sight of him


    26. I was panic-stricken at his words, and could not look at him without trembling


    27. The awful silence that had fallen on the panic-stricken crowd, was presently broken by a ragged-trousered Philanthropist, who shouted out:


    28. ” He was panic-stricken, tears streaming down his face, so he was almost certainly telling the truth, Ralph thought with satisfaction


    29. They were but four in all, but to the panic-stricken weasels the hall seemed full of monstrous animals, grey, black, brown and yellow, whooping and flourishing enormous cudgels; and they broke and fled with squeals of terror and dismay, this way and that, through the windows, up the chimney, anywhere to get out of reach of those terrible sticks


    30. ‘And I have confidence in myself when you are leaning on me,’ he said, but was at once panic-stricken at what he had said, and blushed

    31. Vronsky gave his mother his arm; but just as they were getting out of the carriage several men ran suddenly by with panic-stricken faces


    32. instinctively that the momentary conversation had brought them fearfully closer; and she was panic-stricken and blissful at it


    33. She did not hear half of what he was saying; she felt panic-stricken before him, and was thinking whether it was true that Vronsky was not killed


    34. The elegant, whiskered manservant, who used to be continually complaining to his acquaintances of the delicacy of his nerves, was so panic-stricken on seeing his master lying on the floor, that he left him losing blood while he ran for assistance


    35. There were a thousand ways in which a panic-stricken man could make himself dangerous


    36. Something magical has happened to me, like a dream, when you’re frightened, panic-stricken, and all of a sudden you wake up and all the horrors are no more


    37. And I, of course, shall be panic-stricken as usual, I shall begin bowing and scraping before her and pulling my dressing-gown round me, I shall begin smiling, telling lies


    38. “Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market


    39. At long last, Garvey was forced to turn to a series of miraculous tours de force, conceived and carried out by his panic-stricken inner self


    40. And so she saw through this duplicity, this display of patronizing affection, and she was panic-stricken when she realized you weren't alive anymore, just as you wanted her to be

    41. Panting and drenched with perspiration, he rushed after her into the bedroom, throwing everything on the floor, his walking stick, his medical bag, his Panama hat, and he made panic-stricken love with his trousers down around his knees, with his jacket buttoned so that it would not get in his way, with his gold watch chain across his vest, with his shoes on, with everything on, and more concerned with leaving as soon as possible than with achieving pleasure


    42. "Will she come in here?" Ermengarde whispered back, panic-stricken


    43. Overhearing Starbuck, the panic-stricken crew instantly ran to the braces—though not a sail was left aloft


    44. I liked her face, too, because it did not look particularly depressed or drawn; on the contrary, her expression would have been positively cheerful, if she had not been so often agitated, sometimes almost panic-stricken over trifles, starting up from her seat for nothing at all, or listening in alarm to anjiihing new that was said, till she was sure that all was well and as before


    45. Though she could not recall her own words or his, she realized instinctively that the momentary conversation had brought them fearfully closer; and she was panic-stricken and blissful at it


    46. It would scarcely be believed that a human being could die so simply—and he such a poor, needy wretch, this Gorshkov! What a fate, what a fate, to be sure! His wife is plunged in tears and panic-stricken, while his little daughter has run away somewhere to hide herself


    47. ‘Grushenka,’ he cried, ‘Grushenka, are you here?’ Though he cried that, he didn't want to lean out of the window, he didn't want to move away from me, for he was panic-stricken; he was so frightened he didn't dare to turn his back on me


    48. She, too, glanced at the prince’s panic-stricken countenance, then rushed at her sister, threw her arms round her neck, and burst into as merry a fit of laughter as Aglaya’s own


    49. "What is it my dear? What are you asking?" said Varvara Petrovna, looking more attentively at the kneeling woman before her, who gazed at her with a fearfully panic-stricken, shame-faced, but almost reverent expression, and suddenly broke into the same strange giggle


    50. With the childish look with which little children caress someone, begging for a favour, she stretched forward to seize Varvara Petrovna's hand, but, as though panic-stricken, drew her hands back










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