fit of terror

Example Sentences

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At this command poor Margari had a veritable ague fit of terror.

From The Poor Plutocrats by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

And he clasps his head in a fit of terror.

From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Bernstein, Herman

This was provoked by Frycollin, who, finding himself above the boundless sea, was seized with another fit of terror.

From Robur the Conqueror by Verne, Jules

I was now seized with a fit of terror much greater, in effect, than my former panic.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

The child told her parents, on the occasion of her return home in a fit of terror, that she had been guiding her sheep as usual, but Grenier had not been present.

From The Book of Were-Wolves by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)