affright
Example Sentences
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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
In his delightful "Ode to Adversity" Gray has written: "Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge, and tort'ring hour, The bad affright, afflict the best."
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
