Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this bold act Tue, who had been stupefied at Ching's unexpected avowal, started from him in terror, and fled into the forest. Ching, not looking for such an act, had not closed his arm firmly around her. As she melted from his embrace he stood for a moment gazing in vacant surprise at his empty arm; then he gave chase...
...Desist, I pray thee! If thou lov'st me, cease," cried the Lamprey, as he leaped terror-stricken from his chair. "Me frozen marrow creeps backwards in me veins! Oh! awfullest agony of horror, now I know thee!" and, leaving him there crouched in delirious frenzy behind a Tabular View, the Ibex gracefully poised his wings and circled towards Carl...
...think she lavished upon me that sort of love which a boy may sometimes feel for a woman many years his senior. I knew I should miss her greatly. . . . But when I saw her in the doorway smiling at me, her pale face struck me with something like terror...
...looked wonderingly at the door. The laughter outside did not abate; I wondered if the occupants of the other rooms did not hear it. Suddenly it ceased, and there was a knock at the door. That knock broke sharply across my nerves; I felt a horrible sensation of ghostly terror which I tried in vain to repress. I did not rise; I motioned to Steve to answer the summons. He smiles quietly, - even contemptuously, I thought, - and opened the door. There was no living person in sight. But that mocking laugh broke out again...
...Freshman manipulate a chair on which a lady was about to sit. He pulled the chair out and then pushed it back, but the lady was too quick, or he was too slow, and, as the edge of the chair met her back, she uttered a loud shriek. Terror-stricken, he seized her by an arm and jerked it frantically. His colleagues ran to his assistance. The unfortunate lady was, in a moment, lifted up and forcibly seated on the chair. But now a general indignation arose against the unhappy waiters, and they were hurled down from...