She sat still, as if frozen by the statement, while a scared look filled her eyes.
A calcium-light was sending its rays through the higher branches, and Pike's white, scared face was as plainly revealed to Badger as if the two were facing each other in a lighted room.
I told him my idea was to get back to Cape Town and take the first boat up the coast, only I was scared of happening across you.
The closest thing he could think of was looking out the windows of a tall building, and even that scared him.
These white-shirted engineers were so scared that if you said jump, they'd all stand up and ask how high.
Okay, you're saying everybody here is scared to tinker with the Cyclops.
The other technicians were all staring down at their screens, scared to move.
Jerry stared at the small stick, turning it over and over in his hand like some backwoods denizen receiving a letter for the first time in forty years and scared to open it.
The man squirmed uneasily, scared out of most of his wits; but in his fright he retained some sense, and what was better, some loyalty.
Scared half to death, I brayed myself hoarse before a would-be liberator wedged through the crowd and order Pod to clear the thoroughfare.
To say the fellow was scaredhalf to death doesn't express it.
Usually a newcomer is badly scared during his first day in the Nursery, and very timid during the next.
He'll run back again fast enough, he's that scared of the mountains and the trees.
It was a place where a woodchuck or a small dog could get around a good deal faster than any boy, but they all followed Quib in a way that would have scared their mothers if they had been there.
One of the men I was talking to didn't like dogs; in fact, he was awful scared of them.
He said he was scared pretty near to death, but Lone Walker spoke to them and they became quiet and went and lay down again.
Just as long as they were snakes, they scaredthese people.
I guess I'd be scared a whole lot with so many people round me, and no place to get away.
I guess Joe was scared up good when he saw you go down, and I know I wasn't a bit comfortable.
I don't think I thought much whether I was scared or not.
It seemed awfully funny for a minute, but I was tooscared and too excited to laugh, although I wanted to.
Everybody has seen antelope get scared and run away, and then if a man dodges out of sight very likely they'll turn around and run back and close up to him, to try to find out what it was they got scared at.
I was kind of scared that maybe I'd get lost, making so many changes; but everybody I met was mighty pleasant spoken, and I didn't have a mite of trouble.
That's a mighty good idea," said Jack; "I wasscared when I saw Joe sliding down that ice.
My horse got scaredand commenced to flounder and I rolled off to help.
He knew that though for the moment scared out of their wits by the mysterious voice, they would soon recover when they found it was after all a voice and nothing more.
If the animal had not been scared away, it would have seen a dark form in cautious silence climbing down the rope--a man, with a rifle slung upon his back.
Honest, I've been so plum scared these last few days, I been almost crazy.
Oh, the bear ran off after he scared me," said the little chipmunk girl.
Do you remember that night on the Embankment when we were both so scaredof getting married?
I should feel such a fool if I were to tell people we'd postponed our marriage because we'd both got scared about it!
I was here, at the corner of this spoon, lying on my belly with my nose in the mud--scared stiff.
She "desisted" in the presence of her brother, whose violence of speech scared her into silence.
The captain got off his horse, apparently almostscared to death.
I started for the field with my child, and the further I went the more scared I got until when I reached my husband, I cried like a child.
A startled bluejay, on a limb high up on the bank, lifted his slaty crest and teetered forward, clinging with his toe nails to the branch while he scolded down at the men who had scared him so.
I ain't done anything I'm ashamed of orscared of, but I am kinda bashful about towns.
But his listlessness, the unnatural drooping of his whole body, scared them worse than before.
Foster, he thought, must certainly be scared of his wife, if he daren't show himself in this little rube town.
He would chuck one under the chin, or feel diffidently the soft little cheek, but a closer familiarity scared him.
I was about as badly scared as when I spoke in court, but no more so.
I then asked him where his hat was; and he replied that somebody had fired a gun off down at the foot of the hill, and that his horse had become scared and had jerked his hat off.
It wasn't her fault that she was set afoot--but Bland Halliday just knew Jake would be scared stiff if he went down past where he was, and he had done it deliberately.
He scared Bland Halliday out of a sleep in which his dreams were all of a certain cabaret in Los Angeles--dreams which made Bland's waking all the more disagreeable.
Bland might get scared and lose his head, and if he did, Johnny did not want to be altogether at his mercy.
They slowed and stopped, the plane quivering like a scared horse.
He told of the horses they hadscared back, and of the horse thieves left afoot several miles across the line.
Well, you are scared out of your seven senses, you wretched dunce!
