Word: frighted
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...Italian notables, appears to the eye of passing aviators like a single glistening twisted tear upon the scarred visage of a giant. Last week a salute of 21 battleship guns boomed across this diminutive strip of water. Tourists afloat in ornamental near-gondolas, all but toppled overboard in fright. Shading their eyes and looking about for a super-dreadnaught which was nowhere to be seen, they marveled...
...crone was taken sick in the Calle Margaritas Cervantes, where Vespaciano lived. He cured her by repeating a formula, which his neighbors whispered to each other afterward with frightened glances. But there was no fright in the woman. She worshiped him and came to his patio the next night with a crippled friend. The women were joined by an old man and a boy, and every evening after that, when twilight enchanted the Calle Margaritos Cervantes, a grotesque company came up the blue street one by one and knocked on the door of José Vespaciano...
...recruit being detailed for some rather hazardous undertaking was reprimanded by a non-commissioned officer for allowing his knees; to shake; the inference being that he was trembling with fright. But the recruit repudiated the idea and countered with the statement that the wind got up his trouser legs...
...Hanover" into politics. A storm of criticism broke over the heads of the pro-monarchist leaders which did not spare the Field Marshal himself. It was commented that he was too old, that foreign opinion would turn against Germany if he were elected, that it was a sign of fright, weakness, imbecility on the part of the pro-monarchists to run him, that German business men were horrified at his selection, that he had not the least qualification for the Presidency, that he was a puppet...
Antelopes rolling brown eyes upon one another, melancholy with fright...