One young buck, seeing that I was not scaring to suit him, unslung a carbine as he rode, and shot into the fire before me.
He turned aside into the bushes to begin picking some bright yellow fruit, and scaring away a little parrot from the feast.
Little chopping was done that night, for fear of scaring the moose.
We had smooth but swift water for a considerable distance, where we glided rapidly along, scaring up ducks and kingfishers.
At eight o'clock the steamer, with her bell and whistle, scaring the moose, summoned us on board.
So we went tumbling on in the dark, being on the shady side, effectually scaring all the moose and bears that might be thereabouts.
The news spread quickly, scaring the old Governor to death, heartening the Indians, who had just been defeated, and putting all Spanish plans at sixes and sevens.
The Germans aimed at scaring off the sea those merchant seamen whom they could not kill, disable, or make prisoners.
I might have done good by scaring one, but I did not know Burchard until it was too late.
These, armed with their long-bladed spears, would guide and precede her little party, scaring away the wild beasts by their cries.
Otherwise she maintained a Trappist silence, neglected the house-keeping, injured the business by scaring away customers.
The blood gushed from her nose and mouth, scaring her companion, who thought she was bleeding to death.
He did say some things about scaring you boys away from the old place.
Oh, that was another way we had of scaring people, that was all.
He takes with him a brass drinking vessel of water, a branch of the Mango tree, both of which are, as we have seen, efficacious in scaring spirits, and a spade.
In Scotland it was used in the rite of creeling as a means of scaring barrenness.
We now come to consider the various articles which are believed to have the power of scaring spirits, and counteracting demoniacal influence of various kinds.
The grain acquires special efficacy if it be either parched, and thus purified by fire, or if it be stained in some lucky or demon-scaring colour.
The throwing of old shoes at an English wedding seems on the same principle to be based on the idea of scaring the demon of barrenness.
We have just met with an instance of the use of spittle for the scaring of the disease demon or the Evil Eye.
This habit of scaring the spirits of evil by means of the sieve appears in a special usage at the Diwali festival.
Worse, just as she was about to see the green ray, this unlucky spoil-sport lets off a gun, scaring up a cloud of gulls to obscure the for once bright sunset.
Where's this yar sky schooner yer goin' a-sailin' around in, scaring our cattle and driving the critters plumb crazy?
If the boys had had any doubt as to the feasibility of Bart's recipe for scaring Indians they regained their faith then and there.
Frank, who, with Harry, had watched in terrible apprehension the advance of the steers, had suddenly recollected what the cowboys had said about aeroplanes scaring them.
They rode out about five miles, and scaring up a drove of antelope they started in hot pursuit, and as their horses were very fleet of foot soon caught up to the drove, and each singling out his choice quickly dispatched him with an arrow.
Brave dashed into his mother's tepee, scaring her out of her wits.
What do you mean by scaring String and me almost out of our wits?
They live around on lakes and ponds like this and spend their nights waking people up and scaring them.
Miss Du Prel seemed to nestle up to the good woman, as a child to its mother after some scaring adventure.
Young girls perhaps, brought up very ignorantly, find life a little scaring at first, but they soon settle down into happy wives and mothers.
It was a queer way to win a battle that--scaring the enemy out of their wits by shouting holy words at them.
And I know the men tread more lightly on the deck for fear of scaring us away.
This, and gifts of buttons, etc, procured him liberty to advance, though several times he had to fall back on his rifle, and usually succeeded in scaring warlike chieftains out of their wits.
The beating of flooring-boards and the lighting of fires is also a certain method of scaring the ghost.
Monakatocka took you for the man for whom they hunt with dogs through the forest, scaring the deer from the licks and the partridge from the fern.
The original title of this picture was Eastern Slinger scaring Birds in Harvest-time: Moonrise.
Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper.
You did a perfectly foolhardy thing in roaming the house that way, scaring Lord Arrowood nearly to death, to say nothing of me.
When I switched off the lights and swung a feather duster down the stair-well by a string and tickled your face you did n't make a noise like a circus calliope scaring horses in Main Street, Podunk.
