They yelled and hooted, and shot many bullets and arrows over my head to terrify me into surrender, but I remained motionless and silent.
My pursuers were equally hindered, but by this time the pursuit was general, and in order to terrify me they yelled continually and fired their guns into the air.
Secretly he was base enough to hope that what they did they would do in the darkness, and not terrify him with the sight of it.
The mode of warfare,' observed Lord Randolph, 'of the Radical party resembles that adopted by savage tribes who endeavour to terrify their opponents by horrid yells and resounding exclamations.
His words were, "My dear Mr. Cowper, you terrify me; to be sure you cannot hold the office at this rate.
My dear Brother,--With no sinister accident to retard or terrify us, we find ourselves at a quarter before one, arrived safe at Kingston.
In his Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians Luther says that it is the office of the Law to torment and to terrify the conscience, that it may know Christ more readily.
If you would not terrify me by the ill humour you are in, permit me to withdraw.
What a-devil had I to do, to terrify the sweet creature by my termagant projects!
But all of these were remotely influenced by the trial of Zoroaster, and the attempts of the devil to terrify Zoroaster before tempting him may be hinted in Mark i.
Megara, which he took by storm, he demolished and plundered, in order to terrify the rest, but particularly the Syracusans.
His office was to assemble men and boys in mob style, and ride, in the middle of them, to terrify the adherents to the royal government.
You terrify me, my dear sir, when you ask for letters of mine to publish.
He shall trample him under his feet, and terrify him with open jaws.
Then shall come the giant of wickedness, andterrify all with the sharpness of his eyes.
To terrify Catharine the more effectually, Peter drove her round the head of her lover.
Tortures, floggings, brandings, banishment, were inflicted on some to terrify others, but with very incomplete success.
For some time before, the mountain groans with the strife of Nature going on inside it, and it seems as if an angry spirit within would terrify all the neighbourhood by his mighty roar.
To fawn upon them with feigned politeness and then terrify them with enormous charges is the act of a highway robber.
How strange that one mountain alone should thus terrify the whole world!
Also the Hadith—Whoever casts a look upon his brother believer to terrify him unjustly, God will terrify him in the day of Resurrection?
It was not a large animal, though its aspect was fierce enough to terrify any one.
On the other hand, where elephants have remained for a long time undisturbed, the report of a gun does not terrify them; and they will bear a good deal of hunting before "showing their heels" and leaving the place.
His intention was not to pursue this threat, but in order to terrify the boy, he dragged him a considerable distance through the Strand, where the circumstance had occurred.
The boatswain replied that they had no design to terrify Mrs. Fea, or any other person; but that the most rigorous treatment must be expected if the use of the boat was denied them.
Twas a base delusion, An instrument of hell, a juggling fiend, Uprisen hither from the fiery pool To shake and terrify my steadfast heart.
To-morrow morn we fight, This dread-inspiring phantom to destroy, Which thus doth blind and terrifythe host Let us in fight encounter this she-devil.
I might have gone to the dungeon, and dear Primrose would have had her money, and she and Jasmine would not have starved; but Mr. Dove did so terrify me I really had not courage.
This, although not expressed aloud, seemed also to be Dove's opinion, for he then and there made a full confession of his wicked practices, and of the cruel threats he had employed to terrify Daisy.
Mindful meanwhile of the words of Scripture, how Israel bore the ark of God around the camp to terrify the Philistines, they went again in procession with the monstrance.
He therefore proposed that they should go straight to Madrid with the Archduke, proclaim him King there, and thus terrify all Spain by seizing the capital.
It was as if some long-forgotten scene of horror had been brought before his gaze again, to terrify and astonish him.
The place might be haunted by the ghost of a chicken or a rabbit, but, my dear, you should not allow that to terrify you.
Even the cold wall would be sufficient to terrify me.
These hinds, whose work was superintended by the bailiff and cellaress, always included one or two ploughmen, a cowherd and oxherd, a shepherd, probably a carter or two and some general labourers.
Yes, Nanny Barton's children "did terrifyher so, she had no peace.
They terrify one terrible, as if 'twas their mother, till they can run with the rest.
