Word: frighted
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Storm-trod, nearer God, flung into the fright...
...surprise she learned that the hoof-and-mouth disease had begun to rage among the cattle of California, that Arizona had taken fright and had promptly clapped into quarantine all travelers from that direction. Humans are mildly susceptible to this malady, and are capable of transmitting it through their persons or luggage. Galli-Curci and other motorists were therefore disinfected at Yuma...
...Assailant. After the shot, the people broke through the police cordons amid cries of "Lynch the shooter!" The would-be assassin stood petrified with fright; the angry crowd seized him and he was severely mauled before the police could rescue him. It was later discovered that he was Diasuke Namba, aged 27, son of a minor politician. Formerly a student of Waseda University, he had been forced by circumstances to work as a laborer and had become interested in Communism. He said he had no accomplices and that he had fired the shot in the hope of starting a social...
...this occasion the bull was in a bad temper before he was let into the arena. The moment he was released he became maddened and jumped into the enclosure where the amateur fighters were waiting. Quick as a flash they jumped into the grandstand. The crowd took fright and fled panic-stricken to the top tier of seats. The grandstand gave way. Four people were killed. Twenty-five were injured...
...best tales of horror. It deals with a suicide -a man found dead with a revolver in his had; but in this case the revolver in his hand; but in this case the revolver had not been fired. The man, it seems, had died of fright while meditating his end. He probably had experienced some very unpleasant "last hours...