My wealth frightens every man who is not a knave; and your profession frightens every woman who is not a fury.
There are some few Trees, that would allow a Stock of twelve Foot, but the Firmness and great Weight thereof, frightens our Sawyers from the Fatigue that attends the cutting of this Timber.
I have been inform'd by the Indians, that on a Lake of Water towards the Head of Neus River, there haunts a Creature, which frightens them all from Hunting thereabouts.
I'm sure I don't want to talk about it; the very mention of her name frightens me.
It frightens me to hear you repeat those threatening and angry words; they fall upon my heart like a terrible accusation against you!
Boats--yes--but this Loire is a regular flood; it frightens me.
Chaux frightens off by terrorism his competitors at auction sales, has all the small farms on the Baroissière domain knocked down to him, and exclaims concerning a place which suits him: "I know how to get it!
To these spontaneous eliminations through which the club deteriorates, add the constant pressure through which the Committee of Public Safety frightens and degrades it.
That frightens me more than anything--as you told me.
He sits on the stairs at the back for hours before he is needed here, and frightens people so that the service suffers.
Oh, Francois, hold your tongue; it quite frightens me to hear you say that you would beat mother!
Oh, mamma, pray don't talk of it; it quite frightens me only to think of it.
It frightens people, though, to hear the suggestion that worlds shape themselves from star-mist.
It frightens me to see how much I have written without having yet said a word of what I began this letter on purpose to say.
It is true,' she murmured; 'I see it sometimes, and it frightens me.
I never saw any one so kind and considerate, and so gentle; only now and then he frightens me, with his politeness, or perhaps polish is the right word, it makes me feel myself rude and uncourteous and awkward.
The very nakedness of paper frightens me and drowns my looks.
She does not weep--she frightens me--I fear the poor girl has gone crazy.
To me, strung up to a tautness of sensation that almost frightens me, this silence of the Mate is horrible.
Rosa will accept him: he threatens to "pursue her to the death," if she will not; he frightens her so thoroughly that she rushes to Grewgious in his chambers in London.
Helena shows her aversion to Jasper, who, as even Edwin now sees, frightens Rosa.
Contracted, not married--I wish I was, for the thought frightens me, and then the worst would be over.
My skin frightens them--as if it needed to be washed in milk, to have a true heart.
I suppose I am a sad coward, for the thought of a sick bed, and feverish pillow, and lamentable friends, and the grave doctor with a potion in his hand, frightens me immensely.
The Srutis declare that he who frightens others is frightened himself; while he who frightens not, is not himself frightened.
She is sure that I will be able to pass that awful examination, although it frightens me.
Don't make the mistake of supposing that everything that frightens your horse or causes an accident in the highway is a defect for which the town is liable.
Don't suppose that everything that frightens your horse or causes an accident is a defect in the highway.
If his anger frightens some timorous souls, his clemency encourages the resolutely wicked, who depend upon recurring, sooner or later, to the means of accommodation.
Religion only frightens those whose imbecility of character has already prevented them from being formidable to their fellow-citizens.
Men speak untruly of him--" "My dear Lady, it is what the women say that frightens one!
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