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I shall say but a passing word, therefore, of the Great Snowy Owl, almost exclusively an inhabitant of the Arctic regions, where he frightens both man and beast with his dismal hootings, or of the Cat Owl, the prince of these monsters, who should be consecrated to Pluto, or of his brother monster, the Gray Owl, that will carry off a full-grown rabbit.
Are you sure this sister of yours in the house, on your nerves day and night, with this blind narrow motherhood, this motherhood which frightens you isn't frightening you too much?" "No a little but not too much." Her deep sweet voice was trembling. "You're the one who frightens me. If you only knew! When you come like this with all you've done for me back of you " "Deborah! Don't be a fool!"
Just think, I have never seen them, except in those pictures yonder. Their mother frightens me a bit, she's a great lady out-and-out, a Demoiselle Afchin. But the children, I'm sure they're not little coxcombs, but would be very fond of their old granny.
I suspect we learn from our dressmakers to shift the costume of our minds, and slip on the new fashions of thinking all the more easily because we have been accustomed to new styles of dressing every season. It frightens me to see how much I have written without having yet said a word of what I began this letter on purpose to say.
"It looks awfully dark and narrow." "Oh, stop it. Nothing's going to hurt us. Come on." Kennon took her hand. Unwillingly Copper allowed herself to be led forward. "There's something about this place that frightens me," she said uncomfortably as the high black wails closed in, narrowing until only a slit of yellow sky was visible overhead.
"I received this news with far less transport than it was delivered. I answered coldly, since the case was so, I heartily hoped the commissions might be both signed. 'What do you say? replied Amelia eagerly; 'sure you told me everything was entirely settled. That look of yours frightens me to death. But I am running into too minute particulars.
The thought in his mind seemed at variance with his assertions of maturity and manhood, but he spoke it with characteristic frankness. "Valmy frightens me." "Why?" repeated Commines. "Because of its silences, its coldness, its inhumanity no, not inhumanity, its inhumanness. In Valmy no man sings; in Valmy few men laugh. When they speak they say little and their eyes are always afraid.
"Don't do that ... can't a fellow play once in a while?" "But it wasn't all play, was it?" "No, I really saw the cave, and the primeval landscape. "Shall I tell you some more?" "No, it frightens me too much ... it seems too real. And you've bruised me, and my head feels as if you've torn half my hair out." "Why did you call out your husband's pet name?" "I don't know ... did I?" "Yes!"
I cannot sleep unless I first bolt the door. And look, abbe, I never walk about without a dagger, like the heroine of a Spanish ballad, neither more nor less." "And if this wretch meets you and frightens you, you will plunge it into your bosom? Oh! that must not be. Edmee, we must find some means of changing a position which is no longer tenable.
Only when the moral effect has been produced should the gait be increased to take advantage of it by falling upon an enemy already in disorder, in the act of fleeing. The cuirassiers charge at a trot. This calm steadiness frightens the enemy into an about face. Then they charge at his back, at a gallop.
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