Word: scared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anonymous letter threatened Patti with shooting if she sang in "Faust" Monday night. The prima donna was very thoroughly frightened, but it proved only a scare...
...that a Cambridge policeman is a pitiless avenger of students' escapades, whose only desire is to lie around corners and get students into trouble. If such persons would call upon the veteran policeman whom we found in the station the other day when we were investigating the "small-pox scare," all of his fears of this monster would be dispelled, and he would find him a pleasant, rugged-faced man, glad to talk on subjects best suited for a student's entertainment. After we had found that the report concerning the case of small-pox in college...
...students had the symptoms of the small-pox a few days ago, and created quite a scare among his friends. Their fears proved groundless...
...creature advanced a few steps and growled. I had heard that the way to scare a lion (if this were a lion; the catamount, or American lion, probably) was to look him in the eye. I looked him in the eye, - sternly, unblushingly. I did more than this: I rose to the occasion, and cried, with a commanding gesture, "Go away, you horrid thing!" But the beast, misinterpreting my motives, with another terrible growl, sprang upon me and threw me to the ground. If I had not heard a voice near at hand at that very moment, I might have...
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