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You would be strange and exciting to them as they were strange and exciting to you. They might say interesting things. There might be somebody who cared about Plato and Spinoza. Things would happen that you didn't know. Anything might happen any minute. If you knew what was happening in the houses now some of them had hard, frightening faces. Dreadful things might have happened in them.
In cellars and storerooms similar men were busy among the provisions, and in the yards unlocking or breaking open coach house and stable doors, lighting fires in kitchens and kneading and baking bread with rolled-up sleeves, and cooking; or frightening, amusing, or caressing women and children. There were many such men both in the shops and houses but there was no army.
And suiting the action to the word the young lady, still indolently, even in her simulation, swirled around, caught her skirts at the side with each hand, and lazily shaking them before her in the accepted feminine method of frightening chickens as she retreated backwards, dropped them suddenly in a profound curtsey and swept out of the parlor.
You propose to account for the absence of the body of Jesus, by supposing, that some persons by frightening the guards were enabled thereby to convey the body away, which they did being willing that Jesus should be thought to have risen from the dead, whereby he would be deified, according to the notions of the Greeks respecting deifying men after they were dead, &c.
The strong trade-winds blow the plant away from its roots, and send it careering over the downs, jumping for yards, and high in the air, frightening one's horse when it gets between his hind legs, giving him the impression that he had slept, and dreamt he was young again. We passed Hughenden Station, which had just been taken over by Mr. Robert Gray from Mr.
She had been gazing at him almost vacantly while he was talking. Now she smiled beautifully. "Oh, I am so glad to see you again," she said. "It seems almost as if you had been away a thousand years." "That," said Dan, "almost pays me for frightening you. Are you ready for breakfast? I knocked it together a while ago." "For which you shall be punished when we get ashore."
Of course it was wrong for her to go with Mac, but she was good, he knew she was good. The words reverberated in his brain like a hollow echo, frightening away all the pleading memories. Those were the very words he had used about his mother on that other black night when he had refused to believe the truth. All the bitterness of his childhood's tragedy came now to poison his present mood.
He was pleased to find me less mad than he had expected me to be from a certain letter with which I had succeeded in frightening him some time previously, and he really managed to procure me an exceptional occupation as choir-master at the theatre, for which I received the monthly fee of ten guilders.
'You must be prepared for the questions of lawyers, Danvers. 'Oh, ma'am! they'll get nothing out of me, and their wigs won't frighten me. 'It is usually their baldness that is most frightening, my poor Danvers. 'Nor their baldness, ma'am, said the literal maid; 'I never cared for their heads, or them. I've been in a Case before. 'Indeed! exclaimed her mistress; and she had a chill.
"Well, good-by. Write to Sloyd unless Iver decides to come up. And don't forget that little story about Bob Broadley! Because you'll find it useful, if you think of frightening Sloyd. He can't move without me and I don't move without my price." "You moved from Blent," Duplay reminded him, stung to a sudden malice. "Yes," said Harry thoughtfully. "Yes, so I did. Well, I suppose I had my price.
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