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Example sentences for "great fright"

  • In a great fright, he ran after the old man, who had walked slowly and was not far off, and seizing his sleeve entreated him to give back the stone.

  • By-and-by a tiger walked in, and Li Neng, in a great fright, thought he was going to be eaten alive.

  • In a great fright he jumped up, and went off with his winnings to the temple, where he reckoned up that after deducting Han's loan, and adding what he had lost towards the end, he had exactly the amount originally his.

  • Narcissus therefore burst into his lord's chamber before daylight, apparently in great fright, and told him that he had dreamt that Appius Silanus had murdered him.

  • Upon this occasion he ran in a great fright, and a very shameful manner, to the camp, asking all the way he went, "if the empire were indeed safely his?

  • Presently one of them left the company and ran towards the group near the stile, who were direfully scared thereby, and scrambled in great fright to go over the stile.

  • The lass ran to the house in great fright, and asked her mistress, 'Why have you sent master out into the garden to me?

  • Soon after he heard the shouting on his left hand, at Bwlch y Llwyn, nearer to him, whereupon he was seized with a great fright, and began to suspect it was no human voice.

  • When she looked up and saw beautiful Florimell, with her golden hair, and her face like a drooping white lily, she got a great fright.

  • When he saw Guyon, he dashed in a great fright at his money, and began to try to pour it into a hole and hide it, lest Guyon should steal it from him.

  • He got a great fright when he found himself far from the shore, and with a lovely lady beside him.

  • Now the Knifegrinder wriggled so desperately that the pipal branch broke, and he came crashing through the tree to the ground, without much hurt beyond a great fright and a few bruises.

  • She goes on one side of the lady, and pretends, just as she came to the steps, to fall, and fell against the lady with so much violence as put her into a great fright, and both cried out terribly.

  • This the Young Ones, in a great fright, told also to their mother.

  • He had often heard of robbers who infested that forest, and, in a great fright, he hastily climbed a large thick tree, which stood near the foot of a rock, and hid himself among the branches.

  • He uncovered it, and ran back in a great fright, for the pot was certainly singing!

  • When Puss saw a lion before him he was in a great fright, and got as far away as he could.

  • The Marquis of Carabas," they all said, for Puss had thrown them into a great fright.

  • Then, faint for want of food, he went to the table and ate some meat, yet all the time in a great fright.

  • When they saw a wolf there, they were in a great fright.

  • Tou was in a great fright when he heard this, and rushed off to see the Prince, who grasped his hand and, with tears in his eyes, begged him not to desert them.

  • I asked, and I had a great fright that I had again so nearly betrayed Robert Carruthers to be one of the sex so hated by that noble gentleman, the Gouverneur Faulkner.

  • I know a boy one time got a great fright, for a lamb looked over the wall at him, and it with a big beard on it, and he knew it was the Amadan, for it was the month of June.

  • As to the horses, the two that were in front were grey, but the two that were near the carriage were brown; it gave me a great fright at the time.

  • So he ran on home in a great fright, and he couldn't speak for some time after getting back to the house, but sat there by the fire in a chair.

  • Then up came one with fife in hand, quite out of breath, and in great fright.

  • One of his staff who stood near was in a great fright, but Wash-ing-ton was calm and showed no signs of fear.

  • Their shot did not harm the works, but one man who went out-side was killed, and this threw the rest in-to a great fright.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    gambling houses; great banquet; great effort; great excellence; great harm; great haste; great help; great impression; great lake; great merchant; great numbers; great pleasure; great pressure; great principle; great quantitie; great quantities; great rarity; great sigh; great sorrow; great spiritual; great things; great throng; great tree; great wind; greater length; greatest width