horror-struck

Better still is the episode of “Celebrity Wife Swap” in which Gottfried — a notorious miser — parades around town with Alan Thicke’s horror-struck wife, treating the set more like a Marx Brothers film than a reality show.

Over the past couple of decades, residents of the capital region have been horror-struck by Islamist extremists who flew an airplane into the Pentagon, traumatized by snipers who picked off people as they filled their gas tanks, and terrified by homicides, an opioid epidemic and a pandemic that have taken the lives of thousands.

Emma even jumped with surprize;—and, horror-struck, exclaimed,

He had carried off their store of winter food, and placing it in a sledge, to draw which he had seized on a numerous drove of trained dogs, he had harnessed them, and the same night, to the joy of the horror-struck villagers, had pursued his journey across the sea in a direction that led to no land; and they conjectured that he must speedily be destroyed by the breaking of the ice or frozen by the eternal frosts.

McGarrahan, taking notes in the witness gallery, was horror-struck.