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Example sentences for "terrifies"

Lexicographically close words:
terrific; terrifically; terrifick; terrifie; terrified; terrify; terrifying; terrifyingly; terrine; terris
  1. She terrifies me; and yet she cannot mean me ill, or my mother--we have never injured her?

  2. Death is the only thing that ever terrifies me.

  3. It is the coming of death that terrifies me.

  4. I through the Law am dead to the Law, For the Law only accuses and terrifies consciences.

  5. He calls it the strange work of the Lord when He terrifies because to quicken and console is God's own work.

  6. The preaching of repentance, which accuses us, terrifies consciences with true and grave terrors.

  7. When it truly penetrates the heart, terrifies the conscience, and is no jest, but a great terror, in which the conscience feels its misery and sin and the wrath of God.

  8. For the Law always accuses and terrifies consciences.

  9. That is, sin terrifies consciences, this occurs through the Law, which shows the wrath of God against sin; but we gain the victory through Christ.

  10. Sidenote: The sea sometimes appears calm, and at other times terrifies us with its tempestuous waves.

  11. Sidenote: What then is Power, which terrifies its possessors, and which cannot be got rid of at pleasure?

  12. It is the fear of guilt that terrifies me.

  13. The punishment itself does most, for it terrifies them," replied Heinrich.

  14. As to the Communion, the prospect of being rejected terrifies you, but is not that one proof the more that, contrary to your opinion, God does not leave you insensible?

  15. Ailsa, it almost terrifies me to think what might happen--and he be left out!

  16. What I see around me simply terrifies me!

  17. Example proves it; and it is this which terrifies me.

  18. It may be the manner in which they flutter in unheralded out of the night that terrifies us.

  19. Utilitarianism of this kind terrifies the imagination.

  20. Darkness terrifies some men; I love darkness and can even see in the midst of it.

  21. It has the posture of spirits wandering through it, and terrifies men as does the desert.

  22. I really don't know why it is, mademoiselle, but he almost terrifies me.

  23. Maillefort, ring for assistance, call some one, her pallor terrifies me.

  24. Afanassieff, a similar voice has the same effect as that of the ass; it terrifies all the other animals.

  25. But there is nothing which delights and terrifies our 'English' Theatre so much as a Ghost, especially when he appears in a bloody Shirt.

  26. I look at you as if you were the only ones on the earth; and here is the thought that seizes me, and that terrifies me.

  27. This idea of myself, this representation, amazes and terrifies me.

  28. It terrifies me, and I try to cry out, and there come from me strange and chaotic sounds which echo into the unknown, which I almost hear!

  29. It terrifies one to think for how short a time science has been methodical and of useful industry; and after all, is there anything on earth more marvelously easy than destruction?

  30. Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my word of honor terrifies me.

  31. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them.

  32. Because the unknown happiness of a new life makes me anxious, and terrifies me in spite of myself.

  33. I am so much afraid; everything startles and terrifies me; I am always stepping on stones or bruising myself on stumps and things that I cannot see.

  34. You know how the smell of blood terrifies such creatures.

  35. And, in the drama, everything which terrifies him is of this character, only it has now a deeper and a moral significance.

  36. The world terrifies me with its variety of elements where evil predominates over good.

  37. His glance terrifies me even now in my dreams.

  38. It terrifies me--terrifies me every hour of the day.

  39. Even as she makes it, the enormity of her confession comes home to her, and terrifies her.

  40. Her lips tremble, a momentary fear that she may be going to faint terrifies her; then a voice, cold and uncompromising falling on her ears, restores her to something like composure.

  41. His blind rage so terrifies all the other Whales that they escape, bellowing, throwing themselves on the shore, or striving to hide themselves in the sand.

  42. It is the coming of Death that terrifies me.


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