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What is it, Millie, that you are turning over in your mind, which makes you look so desperately sad and fearful, and again -- and then your expression frightens me -- so determined as if you were meditating some step, which, I fear, you ought not to take?

Without a Home Edward Payson Roe 1863

In France the authority of that journal is indeed supreme; but its very title frightens the general public, and its blue cover is but seldom seen on the tables of the _salles de lecture_.

Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

Black Bear Scare: Roaming bruin frightens Florida suburbanites

Black Bear Scare: Roaming bruin frightens Florida suburbanites Dave Hurteau 2006

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Black Bear Scare: Roaming bruin frightens Florida suburbanites Dave Hurteau 2006

Black Bear Scare: Roaming bruin frightens Florida suburbanites

Black Bear Scare: Roaming bruin frightens Florida suburbanites Dave Hurteau 2006

The powerless old sword frightens nobody now — the steel is turned to pewter too, somehow, and will no longer shear a Christian head off any shoulders.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

The word surrender frightens some because it calls to mind losing a battle or spinelessness.

THE SURRENDERED SINGLE ALSO BY LAURA DOYLE 2002

I believe that if they saw me fearless, and coming among them for friendly purposes, they would leave off hooting; but the notion frightens granny, so I am a prisoner.

Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Dopplegänger Paul will baffle as many people as it delights, but it's certainly unique, and that's a word that frightens away Hollywood producers, who want the safe and sure.

Thestar.com - Home Page Peter Howell 2011

The curiosity ex {c} ited by the title frightens me, because of the disappointment that must of course follow.

Excerpts from Mary Shelley's Letters 1823