Word: frightfully
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...Lapps," Luther, says, "are a nervous class of people and would be termed neurasthenics. In one village for example, where a stick was whacked against the side of a tent, the inhabitants fainted from fright. A number of the subjects who were being measured lost consciousness while they were undergoing this simple and harmless operation...
Otter Creek put Rutland, Vt., yards under water. One woman died of fright. Relatives of the late Governor Percival Wood Clement were marooned in their hilltop mansion. Railway trackbeds were so deranged they may not function again until next spring...
...clutched the hiatus in fright...
...struck he poor victim like a charge of the Four Horsemen. He turned pale. His knees shook. He seemed visibly to wither away. Shortly he sank to the ground, spasm after spasm of pain shaking him from head to foot. Before sunset he was dead, snuffed out by sheer fright...
...birth rate is a highly ethical proposal. I shall say no more. If civilization advances, it will come. The forces on the other side are the forces of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition. They are the same forces that caused the poor savage of the Polynesian wilds to die of fright because he ate the king's food unwittingly. Are we to be ruled forever by tabu