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1. ‘No … we don’t want to frighten her
2. Stories told to frighten young children
3. They are desperate, and act with the folly and extravagance of desperate men, who must either starve, or frighten their masters into an immediate compliance with their demands
4. But she did have to be careful not to be too aggressive, for she had found this could very easily frighten off her young prey
5. The one word had an authoritative ring to it, but it was not said in a manner that would frighten the boy
6. Not wishing to frighten him, she placed her face near his and said
7. He looked like something that could be used to frighten children into being good but his face didn’t bother me I just felt terribly sad for him
8. seemed to be the only thing that could frighten me these days, that and who
9. and branches roughly, stepping on sticks, hoping to frighten off whatever wild creature had her in its sights
10. I tried to keep things as light as I could in my letters keeping the blood gore and boredom out of them I also never told her how many raids I had been on because I didn’t want to frighten her
11. “Does death frighten you Billy Boy?” I was a bit taken aback by so direct a question but I saw she was carrying her bible so I replied
12. Excitement rose in the animal and it pushed its head further under the bush, moving stealthily so as not to frighten whatever was there
13. They even had fake fighter plane attacks to frighten the natives but by this time the natives became much more clever and dangerous
14. I know that once you have experienced the physical transformation during the time travel there isn’t much else that can frighten you
15. I didn’t see the need to frighten you
16. Which should probably frighten me even more
17. But she kept that knowledge to herself, not wanting to frighten Sierra even more
18. “She probably saw us together and come there to frighten you that time,” Angie said
19. Hamish said good it will be great to see him again and don’t worry child I’m not going to put up a fuss about Hans here, Hamish could see relief flood over her face and thinking to himself… had he been that bad to frighten the child so much, then he realised he must have been his wife had left him, not being able to take any more of his bad moods
20. Presumably the greater good would be defined, under the precautionary principle, by anyone who can generate the “loads of publicity” necessary to frighten the public into believing drastic measures are required
21. Q: Nature kills by the millions, but this does not frighten me
22. fears and why those things frighten you
23. “Does your family live there?” not wanting to frighten her off, I started with the simple questions; one’s I already knew the answer to
24. It was there to frighten the Egyptians into
25. It should also frighten those wishing to appear “openminded” and tolerant toward the concepts of ‘liberalism’ (Socialism)
26. things as they are, just because both types of action frighten us
27. They painted their faces with images of ferocious beasts to frighten their foes into submission, then charged into them like a herd of frenzied buffalo wielding large two handed swords and axes as their weapons of preference
28. I choked back my tears, not wanting to frighten Logan
29. It would only frighten
30. What a macabre poet would compose such perverse verses? I commented the Genie that I did not want to frighten my sisters, so that we should handle this matter with subtlety
31. Inwardly, she thought that the ring and the sorcery were inventions of a witch without occupation, which had been given to the task of inventing such spells to frighten and intimidate their fellow human beings
32. I could not bring it with me or I would frighten the girls’ mother yet I needed to make sure it was in good hands, it was my only connection to home
33. He thought Scumble was carrying a gun and had only intended to frighten him, but MacFife had moved, jolting the car and spoiling his aim
34. They won’t attack, but we don’t want to frighten them
35. A day sawing and removing fallen logs and branches from tracks was the medicine needed, and after a long hot bath, a close shave and running the clippers over his body, the shabby, sweaty, feral creature was transformed into a clean, neat, fit and sleekly attractive young man who would excite but not frighten his next class of fourteen year-olds
36. Your tone should be put forward and out, but please, do not shout and frighten the audience
37. ‘Watch the old man wallow in depression and tear out his hair! Guaranteed to frighten small children and dogs
38. This little girl, I surmised, could have easily been hired to frighten me
39. I was intrigued by the realization that death didn’t frighten me anymore
40. He knew that his shouts would frighten them away no longer
41. Carlos had been ruthless and brutal in his quest to frighten the drugs fraternity and shake the established dealers
42. When you discovered I was alive, I thought I could frighten you away
43. By the time they reached the temple, Thomas had deduced that the purpose of this popular demonstration was so to frighten the Sanhedrin that they would not dare immediately to arrest the Master
44. Her vulnerability and his power to frighten and to protect supposedly
45. Up to this point, the plan had been to frighten men away and destroy their property
46. None of the predators had visited her, not wanting to frighten anyone, but Wolfgang and others had passed on messages thanking her
47. The guns frighten him also, especially with a mad lesbian holding the trigger!
48. No little brown snakes to frighten and confuse me
49. frighten me so that you can drink my fear as you did with her
50. The last thing he wants to do is frighten her and fill her with paranoia; a squirrel runs out in the road in front of them and provides a good distraction
1. It frightened me when she called me “their little baby
2. She is frightened but stoic
3. frightened eyes saw and did not believe in the possibility of victory
4. folk riding on the back of it, it would probably have frightened
5. frightened out of its wits
6. She was so frightened
7. "That wasn't the original plan, but once I found out how much knowledge Kassidor has, they were frightened
8. Growling and snarling they were a fierce sight that would have frightened the bravest of men
9. She was very frightened as she passed in front of Lady Ariel, but for her son she would endure anything
10. What he saw in those eyes was a frightened panicked child; his gut told him that the Gatonen were lying
11. Rayne had never seen Duncan beaten down before, and it frightened her
12. Scathers seemed to be frightened - if that could be believed
13. Altera countered that she could change to a wooden practice sword if Rayne was too frightened
14. Fantasies about her and this unique man - and it frightened her
15. For example, when you are feeling stressed or frightened your brain is in the beta state which is related to waking consciousness
16. She was frightened, an emotion new to her
17. felt exhausted and not a little frightened
18. Alexei relayed his feelings regarding the female; she was very frightened of him at first, but he had allayed her fears
19. She is very frightened, given her conditioning, but she firmly believes that there is a chance to end this war with your world
20. Naria was horrified; these were just young boys, unsure of what was going on, frightened half out of their minds
21. Knowing the Elders as she did she could not help but take pity on the frightened boy
22. a year older and so they weren’t as frightened of
23. She found Tarak outside the master bedroom with two very frightened maids
24. Obviously frightened, Danil related the story thru trembling lips
25. It was quite frightened and mewing piteously; she had to coax it out
26. Over the course of the next year she had watched her close friend change from a bright, positive ray of hope into a frightened little mouse
27. She reels off reasons as if she is reading a list of faculties in a university prospectus; qualifications, boys rather than men, too young to really know her own mind, being frightened of the responsibility
28. Follow me and you will see HOW THE ANIMALS ARE FRIGHTENED OF ME
29. As you can imagine, the animals, seeing the tiger behind, were all terribly frightened and ran away
30. frightened rabbit in the corner of the room,’
31. The frightened mare instinctively bucked suddenly away from the falling structure and threw James into the rails between the stalls
32. She was very frightened, and hid under the covers
33. In her teens she started to research the people he’d spoken of, and sure enough he could’ve done all he said, and that thought frightened her even more
34. The thought of running into the old lady, that night frightened her
35. Drawing a deep breath, he slowly raised his head to look into her frightened black eyes, streaked with her own tears
36. The dragon lover saw the head and was frightened out of his wits
37. it, it is not frightened by their shouts
38. "What frightened you?" he asked stepping closer, to lay his warm hand on her back
39. " She said then wondered if the frightened voice was her own
40. Oh granted he once frightened her on the front porch, but that could’ve been partly her fault
41. She was stampeded at the door with hugs and kisses, and a couple of very frightened girls
42. If he was frightened, then I was only too
43. But he was frightened more so
44. At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man, such as she had never seen, came to her; but the king's son began to talk to her quite like a friend, and told her that his heart had been so stirred , and that he had to see her
45. He was quite frightened, and he tried to repeat the Lord's Prayer; but all he could do, he was only able to remember the multiplication table
46. People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was exciting for country folk, and there was even a group of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such and saying there was the sort of man that made England great at sea
47. He is frightened
48. Aladdin was frightened and tried to run away, but the magician caught him and knocked him down
49. The living before the dead was the maxim, so he headed across his land towards the boys now obviously frightened out of their minds until another wind gust blew more embers behind the lads, now cutting off any chance of escape, the only sound was the deafening roar of grass and trees catching alight and two boys trapped in an ever degreasing circle of fire
50. Brontes guided the frightened and disheveled group to the gathering, then turned to Adros and the others
1. Red smiled; it was a frightening sight
2. Suddenly, an image emerges on the screen that I must admit is rather frightening
3. The situation is still frightening but no longer as terrifying as it was
4. "I learned something new and frightening in Alan's latest report yesterday," Alfred told her before she could pick up her book
5. If you are in the middle of a windstorm, you will soon have a frightening experience
6. That didn't make this thing stop being frightening
7. But it became manageably frightening
8. The bishop broke into the eulogy, echoing through the Tannoy, ringing round the valleys, bringing in the strays and frightening the wild
9. The ladies on the wall ate with frightening enthusiasm, enjoying every scrap, and then they ordered more which they slipped into carrier bags standing by their knees
10. ’ As she says this her tone of voice is chilling – this woman is frightening sometimes
11. them seems frightening – but this technique can strengthen your confidence in amazing ways
12. Human contact at any level seems foreign, may be frightening to her
13. This was totally unfamiliar and frightening
14. It can be frightening waking up with unidentified pain in the middle of the night
15. I’d never appreciated just how frightening being an alcoholic is before that
16. " He continued stepping out from behind the frightening shadow of a man, to reach for her hand, and glide her out of the man’s grasp, and into his familiar warmth
17. Most of it was interesting, some was almost frightening
18. She had never met a man before who made her mind seem small, it was frightening, but at the same time thrilling
19. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem
20. What a frightening subject that is, huh? On a personal level, it’s usually a “Boo, boo, boo!” without the “Ha, ha, ha!” afterwards when we are the victims of someone else’s pranks, or worse yet, their evil actions
21. He held his wounded arm in pain with a frightening look upon his face as he stepped closer and closer to her
22. A frightening grin appeared on his face through his thick, dirty-looking beard
23. She lives in a neighborhood with many dogs, all of which appear frightening to her
24. But it had been so real, so frightening
25. She prepared herself to run outside - this building had a frightening life all of its own
26. Whesler’s section was in particularly frightening, for the beggars and the mad gathered there because of the nature of the Wheslerans
27. Big splinters of wood were flying up into the air as our boat was hit countless times by bullets and the noise amplified inside the hull where we crouched taking cover and sounded all the more frightening
28. Then I thought about seeing Helen and all of a sudden I wasn’t so sure the black moods that had overtook me since Gallipoli were frightening and things seemed to have changed irrevocably forever
29. It was frightening being out in front of the trench and we were shitting our pants so scared were we every so often we would stop and listen for German activity
30. It was sobering and frightening to think that losing a person could unhinge someone to that extent so that on reflection I felt only sorrow and compassion for the woman
31. What happened that evening was frightening, deadly, bizarre,
32. When it gathered strength in its unchecked journey across thousands of miles, the wind sounds could be frightening to a small child
33. I fell asleep and the tears soaked my bolster and the nightmares came back frightening in their intensity and scared the shit out of me the guard woke me and I was trembling in every limb and I had a slitting headache
34. There seemed to be no qualms about frightening children, when running their broad-based promotional film
35. This was more frightening than any willfully enforced punishment
36. The world that awaited was simply frightening
37. What I’m saying is, it was a frightening team effort; with Grandpa as our captain, and Grandma as our manager (from the deck), we would all learn what it was like to face down those hens in order to enjoy Grandpa’s famous scrambled eggs with mushrooms and onions, alongside Grandma’s homemade doughnuts and Maxwell House coffee (what can I say, we were spoiled)
38. What if he does it again? Or worse? And most frightening of all, what if he’s behind the missing children?”
39. The frightening part is that his ‘normal’ view of the world would seem cockeyed to us
40. Must have been frightening and painful because her shoulder was black and blue from the recoil of that first shot
41. Keeping its rear end on the top rail, Chuckles slid its front paws down the side slats of the cot, balancing precariously until its front paws were on the mattress and it could drop down without frightening the occupant
42. Something frightening and very dangerous had just happened but he'd no idea what, and as he constantly picked over the events, the questions spun around in his head
43. That would be a frightening proposition! By ―somebody‖, I mean the tendency many of us have of attaching far greater importance to ourselves than many of us justly merit, inclined as we oftentimes are of internalizing our self-importance
44. "Why didn't you say you were here straight away, instead of frightening the life out of us like that? By Homer, you almost scared me to death!"
45. If anything it was frightening her
46. Frank wasn’t frightened, he’d faced down bigger threats than this in prison, but he didn’t want to blow his chances of finding out what Gary knew by frightening them off if he could avoid it
47. It stirred up an answering wildness in me that was frightening, a recklessness that countered his anger with blatant need
48. The man had spoken in soft tones, which made the threats all the more frightening
49. Tearing free of the talons, the robin attacked the crow, pecking at its eyes with such ferocity that the crow cawed in terror, frightening the crows in the nearby rookery, so that they all took off as one, turning the sky turned black
50. Additionally, the questions and their significance to the interrogator were frightening her; all she wanted was to get out of there
1. I hate it - probably because it frightens me
2. I'm still married, and until I'm not, even this frightens me
3. It really frightens me sometimes to know you and I have the entire responsibility for God"s Son
4. “Yes, he frightens me that way too, but what troubles me more is the idea of Mike or that skinny weasel in a hospital in Limon telling their entire story to the police right now
5. That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing
6. To accept what comes as it comes, frightens me
7. You elves have such amazing power, so much that you take it for granted, and… it frightens me
8. bedazzled by it, and that's what frightens me
9. clearly contained within the language of words and of dreams, frightens a lot
10. “The magic frightens me
11. Truth be told she adjusted to her surrounding as expected from humans and it frightens me to say this also,' he hesitated before he added, `I think that some of the wizards may have found a way to overcome their shortcomings
12. “Moving atmosphere to speech often frightens those unaware
13. frightens me more than this thing on my lung! It’s just that………
14. What frightens me is the savage nastiness of my opponent
15. A man is sitting in a coffee shop reading a newspaper with a headline that reads: AN AUDIENCE OF AROUND 5,000 GERMAN SPECTATORS PRACTICALLY FRIGHTENS TO DEATH AS THEY WATCH DIANE D AND THE DIANETTES' 'ILLUSIONS OF ZERO GRAVITY' PERFORMANCE!
16. However, just an apparently lifeless object, frightens me, it tortures me
17. It is the not knowing that frightens us
18. “The thought of letting someone into my heart frightens me yet…,” she looked into his eyes, “I can’t seem to help myself when I’m with you
19. 'The thought frightens you?' said he
20. It almost feels as if he has me pegged in every possible way, and the thought both thrills me senseless and frightens me out of my mind
21. "My dear," explained the Man of Wrath, when I complained one Sunday on our way home from church of the terrible quality and volume of the music, "it frightens Satan away
22. It frightens me to think of the number of people who left the town harboring family members or friends that had been infected in recent attacks
23. – So, to have a child, I just need to sleep with him once… What frightens me is sleeping with him for eternity
24. So much that it frightens me but…”
25. You’re scared of him, you all are! You’re no longer top of the food chain and it frightens you
26. Realizing that a wooden gun is as good as a real one when it frightens everybody, the child used his substitute terms to shock his father and the world at large
27. He rushed at her with the axe; her mouth twitched piteously, as one sees babies' mouths, when they begin to be frightened, stare intently at what frightens them and are on the point of screaming
28. He remembered clearly the expression in Lizaveta's face, when he approached her with the axe and she stepped back to the wall, putting out her hand, with childish terror in her face, looking as little children do when they begin to be frightened of something, looking intently and uneasily at what frightens them, shrinking back and holding out their little hands on the point of crying
29. Ferrars is a very headstrong proud woman, and in her first fit of anger upon hearing it, would very likely secure every thing to Robert, and the idea of that, for Edward's sake, frightens away all my inclination for hasty measures
30. I shrieked out---that frightens her---she heard papa coming, and she broke the hinges and divided the case, and gave me her mother's portrait; the other she attempted to hide: but papa asked what was the matter, and I explained it
31. What frightens them, light or noise? Better sit still
32. He's almost as big as a hare and there's something about his mere presence that frightens you, as if blood and fighting and killing were all just part of the day's work to him
33. Of course the idea of sleeping frightens you: you fell asleep and something terrible happened to you
34. "Upon my word, the fellow's power frightens me when I think of it
35. frightens them and are on the point of screaming
36. “Imagining your childhood frightens me
37. She frightens them off with numbers and sulphur,’ Matsumoto said
38. ‘It frightens you
39. I shrieked out—that frightens her—she heard papa coming, and she broke the hinges and divided the case, and gave me her mother’s portrait; the other she attempted to hide: but papa asked what was the matter, and I explained it
40. What frightens you?"
41. [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart inhabits
42. What is there about units of ten that so frightens a man? When a man’s twenty-nine years old and nine months it doesn’t faze him
43. It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them
44. “It’s the meanwhile frightens me, sir
45. The lamp alarms and frightens Jonah; as lying in his berth his tormented eyes roll round the place, and this thus far successful fugitive finds no refuge for his restless glance
46. *With reference to the Polar bear, it may possibly be urged by him who would fain go still deeper into this matter, that it is not the whiteness, separately regarded, which heightens the intolerable hideousness of that brute; for, analysed, that heightened hideousness, it might be said, only rises from the circumstance, that the irresponsible ferociousness of the creature stands invested in the fleece of celestial innocence and love; and hence, by bringing together two such opposite emotions in our minds, the Polar bear frightens us with so unnatural a contrast
47. mouths, when they begin to be frightened, stare intently at what frightens them and are on the point of screaming
48. He remembered clearly the expression in Lizaveta’s face, when he approached her with the axe and she stepped back to the wall, putting out her hand, with childish terror in her face, looking as little children do when they begin to be frightened of something, looking intently and uneasily at what frightens them, shrinking back and 726 of 967
49. It frightens her
50. it quite frightens me
