Word: frightful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...awfully awful dresses those poor creatures used to wear! Such guys as they must have looked! Just fancy me, Professor, with a nasty, horrid, old tunica on, and the most dreadful-looking sleeves, and a palla hanging down over my l-limbs, - why, I should be a perfect fright! And, O Professor! don't you think the girls' stockings must have been...
Miss Langweilig was alone in the dressing-room, and what a fright she was! Dress grass-green, eyes a few shades lighter, hair red and banged, nose strongly interrogative, and mouth exclamatory. I knew her by sight, (as who does not?) but had never met her. But the case was desperate; so, instead of "holding the finger of perplexity in the mouth of deliberation," I did with my courage as Mr. Shakespeare directs and began the onslaught...
Then Bella sought her father with anxiety and fright...
Such cruel things have always filled me with the greatest fright...
Battling in his wild fright the encircling storm...