affright

Example Sentences

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Shall . . . hireling hosts, a ruffian band, Affright and desolate the land.

From Time Magazine Archive

Retire! your gleaming arms and rude array Affright the timorous maid.

From The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy by Schiller, Friedrich

Ares, the god of war, has two satellites, Terror and Affright.

From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau)

When J. call'd us, he was Beyond Speech & shee Hystericall with Affright.

From A Woman Named Smith by Oemler, Marie Conway

Affright and desolate the land, While peace and liberty lie bleeding?

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by Parrott, James Edward