"Frightening" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mention having seen the ghost to anybody, for fear of frightening them—some people are so nervous about ghosts,—but determines to wait for the next night, and see ...
— Told After Supper • Jerome K. Jerome
... was shattered with a frightening thud. Red pieces of glass and streaming water poured in a cataract down across the broncho's eyes as if very doom itself had suddenly cracked. A cataclysm could not have been more horrible. An indescribable fright and ...
— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels
... puzzled him most and pleased him least was the fellow's patience under his severity, which he seemed either not to feel or not to mind. It was of a piece with the behavior of the rascally boy whom he had cuffed for frightening Cynthia and her little brother long ago, and he wondered what ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... means of at least frightening them into compliance with our wishes. Are not you a great medicine man in their estimation, and capable of commanding the fire-demon? Am I not of the Totem of the Bear and wearer of the mystic emblem of the Metai? To ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... Quatorze clock chimed. Hardly had it got the last two strokes out of its mouth, when Sir Lionel opened the door. He was pale, in that frightening way that tanned skins do turn pale, and he didn't seem to see his sister. He looked straight past her at ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
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