He has no idea that a hidden power, like unto madness, is making him act in such a manner, he only believes himself to be in a bad humour.
As blank cartridges only were served out, it could but be a question of a short manoeuvre and the Legion would not dream of working up enthusiasm for an ordinary "marche militaire.
We saw them in imagination lining the opposite shore; eagle and standard-bearers, and gallifers, brandishing their fowls and their banners in a manner to frighten the decorum of the universe.
But scarcely anything less than the wild alarum of a tocsin will frighten him.
You should not havefrighten de dog," said Perera, with poorly simulated hilarity.
THE RED ROOM "I can assure you," said I, "that it will take a very tangible ghost to frighten me.
You see, they are so ignorant, there is nothing they will not believe if only you can frighten them.
I believe there are wretches who make a profession of trying to extort money by getting hold of some forgotten trifle, and magnifying it until they manage to frighten weak-spirited persons.
Even the echo of their own voices as they called aloud tofrighten the beasts of prey struck on their ears with peculiar strangeness.
The thousands of terrifying shapes which are waiting for me in the next world to stone me with their decapitated heads do not frighten me.
This hard-mouthed people requires an example which shall strike its eyes and so frighten it.
But a little smoke ought not to frighten you away; it should be endured, and will thereby be often surmounted.
If two people whisper to each other in my presence, I grow uneasy, and lose all command of mind, because I think they are speaking ill of me; and I often assume a satirical manner in company, in order to frighten them.
But all men die, and no brave man lets death frighten him from his desire.
Certainly it is becoming in YOU to object to that,' said King Grumpy, 'since you are ugly enough to frighten anyone yourself.
There are coarse elements in him, Nina, things that would utterly sicken and frighten you!
She would not let him frighten her again; after all, while she commanded her own soul, Royal Blondin could not hurt her.
They had to erect stockades round the villages and drive in all the cattle, and half the men kept guard by turns, keeping great fires alight to frighten them away.
Above all frighten no woman; let them see that we, though gladiators and outlaws, are as well disciplined and as humane as their own soldiery.
In the first place he must not frighten his new acquaintance by approaching too near again.
To cut too near to the nest mightfrighten his little neighbor on the branch, and endanger his own life.
I brought the phonograph record to frighten him into confession, and it did.
Could it have been placed there to frighten her to death?
And she put that thing round her neck to frighten her!
You--rather frighten me, when you're so mysterious.
They said I was, but they only did it to frightenme and get me away to a sanatorium.
He refused to listen; he--ah--suggested that I might frightenthe fish.
Thus the delay of the king gave the English time to make Paris almost impregnable, and to frighten the people, who, had Charles marched straight from Reims, would have yielded as Reims did.
The English soldiers were allowed to bully, threaten, and frighten away every one who gave her any advice.
In the first place, it is obvious that Parsket's intention was to frighten Beaumont away and when he found that he could not do this, I think he grew so desperate that he really intended to kill him.
You see, he did not want to frightenthe others from accompanying Wentworth.
I flashed it up the aisle, to and fro across the chancel, but I could see nothing to frighten me.
I wish I could frightenher again," Polly said thoughtfully.
The long and short of it is, two old women have hid a paper, which you want, and our game is to go in and frighten one of them into telling where it is hid.
Now I want to get hold of a couple of determined fellows, accustomed to that sort of business, to make an entrance there with me at night--to get hold of this old woman, and to frighten her into telling us where this will is hidden.
On the contrary, one after another might fall, and not frighten the rest, so long as these did not get to leeward, and detect the presence of their enemy by the scent.
She thought it was some person who wanted to frighten me; but we were never able to ascertain who or what it was.
I believe that it was a device cunningly conceived by mischievous Spirits at play, to lure us down, and then frighten and bewilder us.
At these words the witch bride put forth her spells again and turned her bridegroom into a little ermine and began to frighten him.
It doesn’t take much to frighten you, Uncle Zeke,” Clay laughed as the old darkey came up on a run.
Say, kid, twenty feet below us a horse hitched to a carriage filled with ladies reared up on his hind feet and they had to stop the music until they got by us so as not to frighten the horse any more.
Such as see it only cry out against their disorders, and frighten them with threats of future punishment!
Indeed, life was so wearisome to me, that those maladies which were thought mortal did not frighten me.
