be terror-stricken

“It’s just as I thought,” said Nyoda, “someone has been trying to frighten us with a possible view of robbing the house at some time, thinking that a houseful of women would be terror-stricken at the ghostly noises, but when he found we had a gun and could shoot he thought better of the plan.”

The country through which they passed seemed to be terror-stricken.

No one appeared to be terror-stricken, and yet the youngest, as well as old Bob Hunt, knew perfectly well that there was every probability of our being in a few short minutes overwhelmed among the foaming breakers under our lee.

Awakened by the noise and rumor, guests, feudal retainers, servants, and attendants rush to the spot, each in turn to be terror-stricken at the threshold, to move within awed and silent.

Two children playing beside him hurriedly get up; one sees that in a moment they, too, will be terror-stricken.