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Herons do a great deal of harm to fish ponds, even when the fish have got well into the yearling stage. I have on one or two occasions known of herons wounding trout of at least a pound in weight. Besides the actual damage they do by killing fish, they put all the other fish in the pond off their feed through frightening them.
I'll haunt you, till you'll curse the very hour you war born. "'Whist, Micky, said Jack, 'you're frightening me: I'll not go will that satisfy you? "'Well, dhrop down on your two knees, there, said Micky, 'and swear before the God that has his eye upon you this minute, that you'll have no hand in injuring him or his, while you live.
He spoke of the colleges of Cambridge, and with every college and every particular glory of every college demanded of the unfortunate Harold, "What have you got in Oxford against that, sir?" It was awful. It was far more frightening than the night of the storm. Nobody ate. Nobody drank.
As he turned in the gate at the Rectory it was a relief to him for his own thoughts were frightening him to see the peasants moving away and the head of the gardener disappear behind the wall. He walked up the path to the Rectory, the lawn dotted over with sombre yew trees all clipped into the shape of torpedoes, all trained directly upon the forts of Heaven!
He does not 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 if the apparition appears again.
Everybody gives a sort of howl and rushes. When you see men dropping, you rush the faster. The only thing that checks you at all is the wire twisted about everywhere. You don't want to trip over that. The frightening thing is the exposure. After being in the trenches so long you feel naked. You run like a scared child for the German trench ahead.
The cry that disbanded Irish soldiers were coming to murder the Protestants had, with malignant ingenuity, been raised at once in many places widely distant from each other. Great numbers of letters, skilfully framed for the purpose of frightening ignorant people, had been sent by stage coaches, by waggons, and by the post, to various parts of England.
The days that followed reminded some of the older dalesmen of the stories told by their fathers of the great and famous hunt, a century ago, after the sheep-slaying "dog of Ennerdale," who for five months held a whole district at bay; appearing and disappearing phantom-like among the crags and mists of the high fells, keeping shepherds and farming-folk in perpetual excitement, watched for by night and day, hunted by hounds and by men, yet never to be captured; frightening lovers from their trysts, and the children from school; a presence and a terror prevading men's minds, and suspending the ordinary operations of life.
The slightest whiff of smoke sent her into a flutter of alarm. The sight of a blaze made her almost frantic. Perhaps Mrs. Ladybug's neighbors more than she were to be blamed for her fear. Some of them had an unkind way of frightening her.
Rats talking in the wine-cellar indeed! 'Well, Mrs Bunch, I've no wish to argue with you: all I say is, if you choose to go to the far bin, and lay your ear to the door, you may prove my words this minute. 'What nonsense you do talk, Mr Parkes not fit for children to listen to! Why, you'll be frightening Master Stephen there out of his wits. 'What!
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