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

And so the lovers converse on the bridge, all covered from end to end with these caricatures of human existence, until the girl hurries with affright from what she calls "this great picture-gallery of death."

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by Parton, James