affright

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The vivid image of a theatre as a wooden O comes from the prologue to Henry V: "Can this Cock-Pit hold within this Woodden O, the very Caskes that did affright the Ayre at Agincourt?"

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2012

The sound of its bell, to paraphrase Poe, was "In the startled ear of night/ How it screamed out its affright!"

From Time Magazine Archive

The words on her bookmark are perhaps her most memorable: Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee.

From Time Magazine Archive

I like it not, and I have grave doubts; but I fear to affright her, and so I am silent of it.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Unthinkingly, he pulled a straggling root from the earth; and on the instant, heard, with affright, a stifled moan underground, which winded downwards in doleful tones, and died plaintively away in the deep distance.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas