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Example sentences for "little frightened"

  • Yes, sir," said Wookey, awed and a little frightened at the service he was rendering to the great Dink Stover.

  • She was before him, her large eyes seeming larger than ever, her face a little frightened, but serious with the seriousness of the woman looking out.

  • It left him confused, almost a little frightened.

  • True, they looked at him covertly, and Alice seemed to be a little frightened, but that was all.

  • For a moment, a little bewildered and a little frightened, she looked about her with the air of one who had dropped into new and strange surroundings by the merest chance.

  • To tell the sober truth, Mrs. Baffall was a little frightened.

  • It's like blood," said Esther; "it makes me a little frightened.

  • I got a bit misdoubtful at the door, for the young maid seemed somehow a little frightened of me; but when I told the name it was all right.

  • When papa and mamma are here, I suppose there need be no mistering," says Theo, looking out of the window, ever so little frightened.

  • This side of the affair, being real, had a tendency to make it all seem real, and sometimes confused, and sometimes a little frightened Susan.

  • She knew, and was really a little frightened at knowing, that when she left Oxford the next day she would leave behind her a heart that had hitherto been quite untouched.

  • The little mother put her arm, with great affection, around the shoulders of her youngest child, of whom she was extremely proud and a little frightened.

  • He was a little frightened at the books she read and looked up to her with a certain amount of awe.

  • Nanni was much impressed, but when she had heard all about the children's adventure she grew a little frightened.

  • Britta, though, as she glanced at his set, stern face and paling lips, she began to feel a little frightened.

  • Lord Algy was so surprised that he released her quite suddenly from his embrace--so suddenly that she was a little frightened.

  • In view of these three great prerogatives of Mary—her divine maternity, her perpetual virginity and her Immaculate Conception—we are prepared to find her blessedness often and expressly declared in Holy Scripture.

  • But far be it from us to ascribe to any human cause this marvelous survival of the Church.

  • Fan thought her marvellously beautiful, but felt a little frightened in her presence, she was so tall and stately, and her face had such a frowning, haughty expression.

  • The lady told me to come here," returned Fan, still a little frightened.

  • Then starting back a little frightened, she exclaimed, "Mary, was it wrong for me to kiss you without being told?

  • The Fox was not a little frightened by all this clatter, but he was not so frightened as the Cock, who saw that only cunning would save his life.

  • As she was excited and perhaps a little frightened, her breath came and went rapidly, and her lips were slightly parted showing a faint glimmer of pearly teeth beyond.

  • Not a little frightened, she could hardly speak, but she did not feel indignant for she had been very lonely, and this mute adoration of her on the part of this unknown man acted like soothing balm on her wounded pride.

  • Comethup was a little surprised and a little frightened, on glancing at him, to see the expression of his eyes.

  • Comethup, a little frightened, stared at the old man for a moment, and then hurriedly joined 'Linda and drew her away.

  • She had taken life sighingly, in little frightened gasps, as it were, with the fear upon her, even from childhood, that unknown horrors lurked for her in each day to which she was awakened.

  • Comethup, a little frightened, moved his head, and then laughed faintly.

  • We talked in whispers, not because there was any one to hear, but because there was still such a freshness of mind between us that our thoughts were a little frightened, I think, to find themselves at last in words.

  • I grew excited and red-eared, and a little frightened.

  • I went on through Euston Road to Tottenham Court Road, puzzled, and a little frightened, and scarcely noticed the unusual way I was taking, for commonly I used to cut through the intervening network of back streets.

  • She hung upon his reply eagerly, a little frightened, though she realized, in seeking to analyze her foreboding that she could not tell herself why she should.

  • There was a little frightened, feminine "Oh!

  • Then she added quickly, a little frightened by the look he gave her.

  • They are a little angry, a little frightened perhaps.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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