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Sentences starting with terror

Terror and grief weighed on thousands of hearts, while some tried to make a profit out of the prevailing anxiety, and others--many others--went forth, as light-hearted as ever, in pursuit of pleasure and amusement. [10]
Terror fell upon them all; Joanna left the viridarium in speechless dismay, and Martina exclaimed: "What a horrible, vile country! [10]
Terror acts in the same manner on them as on us, causing the muscles to tremble, the heart to palpitate, the sphincters to be relaxed, and the hair to stand on end. [1]
Terror seized the people when the sun went down, and to the watchers the suspense grew. [11]
Terror seized young Nicholas and he awoke. [2]
Terror had loosened his tongue; in that dreadful hour Gyges learnt once more to speak, and I, who but the moment before had been cursing the gods, bowed down before their power. [10]
Terror and rage had sealed the old countess's lips, but now they parted in the hoarse cry: "You deserve the wheel and the gallows, not the honourable block! [10]

Sentences ending with terror

He was pleading with her, in his voice was the peculiar vibrancy that thrilled her, that summoned some answering thing out of the depths of her, and she felt herself yielding with a strange ecstasy in which were mingled joy and terror. [9]
She was seized with a mortal terror. [10]
The dread moment which had blighted his life returned in all its terror. [6]
But linger as we may, we cannot compress into a chapter--we could not crowd into a volume--all that passed through the minds and stirred the emotions of the awe-struck company which was gathered about the scene of danger and of terror. [6]
Her handsome face was white as chalk, her pupils widened in terror. [9]
And, indeed, it was not merely strange, but it filled her heart and mind with astonishment and terror. [10]
His eyes, screwed up with fear as if he every moment expected another blow, gazed up at Rostov with shrinking terror. [2]
Words seem useless to express the complicated nature of my suffering at that moment,--my remorse, my sense of deception, of hypocrisy,--yes, and my terror. [9]
But the path they had followed from their last encampment, the harbor by the Red Sea, was rugged, arid, and to them, who had grown up among the fruitful plains of Lower Egypt, toilsome and full of terror. [10]
The men lost their heads with terror. [5]

Short sentences using terror

Oh the terror, the terror! [6]
Yet the terror persisted. [9]
The Governor's face expressed terror. [2]
It means terror! [5]

Sentences containing terror two or more times

Terror, abject terror, seized him now, so that his knees smote together. [9]

More example sentences with the word terror in them

Terror, blood, Diodoros wounded, Andreas, the ass on which she had ridden that night, were the images which first crowded on her awakening spirit in bewildering confusion. [10]
She was filled with the terror of losing him--of losing all that remained to her in the world. [9]
Beautiful, wild, invested with the mystery which belongs to untrodden spaces, and with enough of terror to give it dignity, it had yet closer relations with the town over which it brooded than the passing stranger knew of. [6]
He was seized with terror, and, in a kind of convulsion, hurled what he thought had become a living head against the wall. [10]
He was seized with such violent terror that he stood as if spellbound, the goat slipped from his shoulders, and he felt as if his heart had ceased to beat. [10]
Agatha's eyes opened widely when Melissa told her anything good about her brother, and she clung in terror to her new friend as she heard of her excited orgy with her lover. [10]
The young lady whom we have known as The Terror, as Lurida, as Miss Vincent, Secretary of the Pansophian Society, had been reading various works selected for her by Dr. Butts,--works chiefly relating to the nervous system and its different affections. [6]
O friends, we who live in peace and plenty amongst our families, how little do we realize the terror and the misery and the dumb heart-aches of those days! [9]
His descent upon Whitehaven spread terror and consternation broadcast through England, and he was branded as a pirate and a traitor. [9]
The terror with which this spectacle had disturbed her sleep could not be banished during the morning. [10]
The terror with which she started up at his call bore no favourable testimony to her good conscience, but she had already recovered her bold unconcern when he imperiously demanded to know what had become of lame Kuni. [10]
The terror with which it had once inspired him was gone, or lingered only in the form of a delicious sense of uncertainty and anticipation. [9]
Charley was wondering whether, after all, she would have the courage to keep her word, whether spiritual terror would surmount the moral attitude of honour. [11]
To his inquiry, whether she could not rejoice in the coming of the glorious time in store for redeemed humanity, she answered, tremulously: "All you hope for is glorious, no doubt, but what shall lead to it must be a terror to all. [10]
But Eva knew what had befallen the Eysvogel wares and, although she did not lack courage, she started in terror as she heard the tramp of horses' hoofs and the clank of weapons, not from the city, but within the forest. [10]
Cynthia and Bob were left alone: left, moreover, in mortal terror of each other. [9]
Self-centered as Lise was, absorbed in her own trouble and present physical discomfort, this unaccustomed word from her sister and the vehemence with which it was spoken surprised and frightened her, brought home to her some hint of the terror in Janet's soul. [9]
Consciousness of death was there, a blended terror and pain, but no consciousness of sight. [13]
At first she was so struck with terror that she could not move. [11]
Yet my justice was but darkness of purpose, the hidden terror to them all. [11]
But at that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard quite close at hand, and a voice of naive terror barely two steps from Prince Andrew shouted, "Brothers! [2]
They were of various ages and of many different nationalities, every one of them with the vague terror hanging over him or her. [6]
They were feeling us, you see; they wanted to know if we were going to play that red terror on them again. [5]
It was not until very recently that it could be explained to her, without putting her in terror hourly, why she must always be watched and guarded. [4]
Forced by the unshaken solidarity of tens of thousands, the manufacturers offer bribes to end the reign of terror they have inaugurated.... Inhuman treatment and oppressive toil have brought all nationalities together into one great army to fight against a brutal system of exploitation. [9]
They betray an unmanly terror when I offer them a cigar; they tell lies and hurry away to meet engagements which they have not made when they are threatened with the hospitalities of my box. [5]
It was the unexpected realization of the fact that he still valued life as presented to him in the form of his love for Natasha, and a last, though ultimately vanquished, attack of terror before the unknown. [2]
In their terror, twenty brave rebels of two hours ago were to be captured by a single British officer of infantry speaking bad French. [11]
And lastly you too, peasants, come from the forests where you are hiding in terror, return to your huts without fear, in full assurance that you will find protection! [2]
King went back to the hotel in a terror of the place, which did not leave him so long as he remained. [4]
He is trying to take up the burden of this life while struggling under the terror of another. [4]
It was astonishing to see what one little creature like The Terror could accomplish in the course of a single season. [6]
It does good to make the innocent feel the terror and shame of sin. [11]
I was going to give him a scolding, but Sandy came flying in at that moment, wild with terror, and so choked with sobs that for a minute she could not get her voice. [5]
The prince, accustomed to bright faces and tender caresses, broke away from her in terror to run back to his brother and sisters. [10]
It appeared as though the dumb earth were trying to speak, and the mighty effort gave it pain, from which came awe and terror to living things. [11]
The sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around him merged in Rostov's mind into a single feeling of terror and pity for himself. [2]
Detricand saw that this was not acting, that it was a supreme terror, an awful momentary aberration; for the traitor's eyes were wildly staring, the mouth was drawn in agony, the hands were now rigidly clutching an imaginary something, the body stiffened where it crouched. [11]
Not this hatred, this thirst for revenge, this blood, this persecution, and, as their hideous fruit, this terror, these horrible, cruel fears--" Here she was interrupted by the clatter of arms and rapping of hammers which came up from below. [10]
Never, as in this moment when the cold rain wet their faces, had the thought of its comfort and warmth and luxury struck him so vividly; yes, and of its terror and loneliness now, of the tortured spirit in it that found no rest. [9]
Reaching them as they mounted, he fired, and brought down his man--a shivering quack- doctor, who, like his leader, had seen a sight in the tailor-shop that struck terror to his soul. [11]
Constant contests with them increased that roughness which now makes him the terror of his subordinates and alienates all affection. [10]
The citizens, among them Adam, learned this fact with rage and terror, but the mutineers of Aalst had not yet collie. [10]
His face was the very caricature of terror. [9]
I understood then the terror of numbers, and shuddered. [9]
Yet we on the Terror of France served our good general, too; for one dark night, when the wind was fair, we piloted the remaining ships of Admiral Holmes's division above the town. [11]
Death had not the terror for him that it has for most young persons. [6]
She listened with the tension of terror to the sound of the steps which came straight towards her nearer and nearer, then the wanderer perceived the faint gleam of her white dress, and called out to her. [10]
The Terror of the Seas had brought a side of bacon, and had about worn himself out with getting it there. [5]
The Terror of the schoolroom was the oracle in her relations with her friend. [6]
There were still the same suffering, exhausted, and sometimes strangely indifferent faces, the same blood, the same soldiers' overcoats, the same sounds of firing which, though distant now, still aroused terror, and besides this there were the foul air and the dust. [2]
The downpour of the rain and the slipperiness of the ground were elements of discomfort; but there was, besides these, a kind of terror in the very character of the forest itself. [4]
It is evidently the pet dread and terror of the Church's membership. [5]
The eyes of the mother looked upon the son, and in them at first was the terror of one who sees the infinite. [9]
His thought, in the moment of terror, is for himself: first, suicide; then, what he shall do,--not to save his household,--not to fulfil his duty to his office,--not to repair the outrage he has been committing,--but to secure his own personal safety. [6]
If George rode the huge rocking-horse, he was Paul Revere, or some equally historic figure, and sometimes, to Edith's terror, he was compelled to assume the role of Bluebeard, when Honora submitted to decapitation with a fortitude amounting to stoicism. [9]
But what is the good of that; my grandfather will be angry, for in my terror I beat his father's nose quite flat on the plate. [10]
She could see the flood surging, swelling--saw it lapping round her own house, her own feet; drops of sweat bedewed her forehead and hands from terror at the mere thought. [10]
It was, however, the door behind him which opened, and he gave a start of surprise and terror. [11]
Yet often, when the disease attacks her more sharply, she asks in mortal terror if everything is ready, for she is afraid to die without extreme unction. [10]
The Terror suspected the daughter of one of these families of sending certain anonymous articles of not dissimilar character to the one she had just received. [6]
We tramped through the darkness and the drenching summer rain full three miles, and reached "The Naturalist Tavern" in the village of Hirschhorn just an hour before midnight, almost exhausted from hardship, fatigue, and terror. [5]
The man on the chair, his face lighted by a fanatic enthusiasm, is the Honourable Hamilton Tooting, coatless and collarless, leading the cheers that shake the building, that must have struck terror to the soul of Augustus P. Flint himself--fifty miles away. [9]
There we carried the bridge by assault, and left a force to hold it, the rest of the army marching away next morning toward Beaugency, where the lion Talbot, the terror of the French, was in command. [5]
I was reminded that unexplained sudden deaths were of constant, of daily occurrence; that any emotion is liable to arrest the movements of life: terror, joy, good news or bad news,--anything that reaches the deeper nervous centres. [6]
It is possible that the roaring of the lion may be of some service to him by striking terror into his adversary; for when enraged he likewise erects his mane and thus instinctively tries to make himself appear as terrible as possible. [1]
Besides this the terror which he had gone through, as well as the consciousness that he had been guilty of a lie and had daringly deceived his kind master, had upset a soul hitherto untainted by any subterfuge and had thrown him off his balance. [10]
A shudder of terror went through him: "No, better not look," he thought, but having reached the bushes he glanced round once more. [2]
The reign of terror was over, and the Arkansas domination broken for good. [5]
Dada clung in terror to Marcus, who was beginning to be seriously alarmed for her when, looking round for aid or refuge, he caught sight of his brother forcing his way through the throng, and gesticulating vehemently. [10]
The thought struck terror to her heart, but only for a moment. [10]
And the same terror returned to him now after all the years of respite, tenfold increased, of falling in the sight of man from the topmost tower. [9]
Despite all the terror of what had happened during those last days and during the first days of their journey, this feeling that Providence was intervening in her personal affairs cheered Sonya. [2]
The bustle and terror of the Rostovs' last days in Moscow stifled the gloomy thoughts that oppressed Sonya. [2]
That cry of terror must proceed from her friend's mouth, and was followed by exclamations of grief from bearded lips and loud sobs. [10]
What was that terror I felt of him? [2]
How often The Terror had thought to herself that she would gladly give up all her knowledge of Greek and the differential and integral calculus if she could only perform the least of those feats which were mere play to The Wonder! [6]
Cambyses started with terror at these tidings, as one who saw a dead man rise from his grave. [10]
He started in terror at the thought. [10]
Madelinette was standing, tense and set with terror, her eyes riveted on something that crouched beside a pile of cart-wheels a few feet away; something with shaggy head, flaring eyes, and a devilish face. [11]
Mark how the tender-hearted mothers read The messages of love between the lines Of the same page that loads the bitter tongue Of him who deals in terror as his trade With threatening words of wrath that scorch like flame! [6]
To see him, talk to him, feel his eyes on her now that her whole soul was overflowing with those dreadful, wicked temptations, was a torment of joy and terror. [2]
Deep darkness suddenly surrounded her, and she was seized with terror. [10]
Diodoros, seized with sudden terror of the dark figure, which he believed to be a risen ghost, took to his heels, dragging Melissa with him. [10]
The word always struck terror to her soul. [9]
He stood fixed, struck dumb, staring back into them with dilating pupils and sudden numbness of fear that cannot move, as in the terror of dreams. [6]
Sooner would he step into boiling water than return to that bed of terror. [10]
There was no start, no terror, but the appearance of the jailer with the chaplain roused in him disgust for the coming function at the Mont es Pendus. [11]
It was the Spirit of the North, in which lives the terror, the large heart of things, the soul of the past. [11]
Dr. Butts felt somewhat in the same way as he contemplated The Terror. [6]
It is apparently sometimes used to excite terror, as in the case of the hissing noise made by some nestling-birds. [1]
His ostensible "aunt's" solicitudes and endearments were become a terror to him, and he avoided them. [5]
That was not so difficult, since your Terror of the Seas was locked up safe enough in the Texel. [9]
Gradually, like the smoke that settled down on our city until we lived in darkness at midday, the horror of what Bitter had told me began to pervade my mind, until I was in a state of terror. [9]
Her brothers and sisters followed at her heels, and when they saw their favorite sister bewailing herself they followed her example without knowing at first what Arsinoe was crying for, but soon with terror and horror at their father lying there stiff and disfigured. [10]
And in my sick heart all was dark indeed, albeit I had not been slow to learn how this terror had come about. [10]
As he fell, shot through the breast, the man who had fired dropped the lantern with a shriek of terror. [11]
I threatened to shoot him with my walkingstick, whereat he ran nimbly along the wall in terror The workmen shouted; and this started up a couple of yellow dogs, which came to the edge of the wall and barked violently. [4]
The next moment she was shivering violently as if from an attack of fever; again she threw up her hands, pressed them to her temples, and gazed with terror and bewilderment into the face that bent above her. [10]
In her terror, she was bringing him to Mr. [9]

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