The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.

His heart was pounding like a mighty dynamo and he was trying to think, his mind seeming to scream at him like a hurt or frightened child, `` How will I do it??

She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.

The song, he said, was called `` The Stream's Lullaby '', and when he sang, `` Gute ruh, Gute ruh, Mach't die augen zu, '' there was such longing and such simple sadness that it frightened me.

Violence always made him tired, but he was not frightened.

But though I boasted and gave off a dapper front, I was beneath it all frightened.

The din was successful, too, for just before the moon disappeared, the frightened toad had begun to spit it out again, which meant good luck all around.

She had cried a little because she was frightened.

Mrs. Williams was both sullen and frightened.

Due to her immense beauty, Zeus was frightened that she would be the cause of violence between the other gods.

The king was so frightened of the beast that he jumped into a pithos, and asked Heracles to return it to the underworld in return for releasing him from his labors.

The first telephones were brought by Ras Makonnen from Italy in 1890, and connected between the Palace and the Imperial treasury ; the sound of disembodied voices frightened the local priests, who thought it was the work of demons.

When Heracles returned with the Erymanthian Boar, Eurystheus was frightened and hid again in his jar and begged Heracles to get rid of the beast ; Heracles obliged.

A frightened Lozgachev asked Stalin what happened to him, but all he could get out of the Generalissimo was unintelligible responses that sounded like " Dzhh.

The attorney Roy Cohn, an associate of Hoover during the 1950s investigations of Communists and known to be a closeted homosexual, opined that Hoover was too frightened of his own sexuality to have anything approaching a normal sexual or romantic relationship.

Howard Rollins, who received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his performance, said, " I was frightened to meet Mr. Cagney.

They characterized Britain as always attempting to disrupt Soviet-German relations, stated that the Anti-Comintern pact was not aimed at the Soviet Union, but actually aimed at Western democracies and " frightened principally the City of London the British financiers and the English shopkeepers.

Although the details remain sketchy, Kerensky appeared to become frightened by the possibility of a coup and the order was countermanded ( by comparison, historian Richard Pipes has argued that the whole episode was engineered by Kerensky himself ).

Less controversially, one of the earliest devices recorded that used internal-combustion rocket propulsion, was the ' ground-rat ,' a type of firework recorded in 1264 as having frightened the Empress-Mother Kung Sheng at a feast held in her honor by her son the Emperor Lizong.

There are other interpretations which say that Saul and the witch having been frightened by his appearance, and Samuel as having been composed, classical rabbinical sources argue that Samuel was terrified by the ordeal, having expected to be appearing to face God's judgement, and had therefore brought Moses with him ( to the land of the living ) as a witness to his adherence to the mitzvot.

One of them was an Argentinian national so frightened that he might be deported as a homosexual that he tried to escape the police precinct by jumping out a two-story window, impaling himself on a spike fence.

The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

And there was a house ; ;

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

In his mood, it was the best way to handle him ; ;

This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;

His aim was hurried ; ;

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Bongos are both timid and easily frightened ; after a scare a bongo moves away at considerable speed, even through dense undergrowth.

Mongol messengers demanding Japan's fealty had frightened the authorities into believing that Nichiren's prophecy of foreign invasion would materialize ( which it did in October ; see Mongol Invasions of Japan ).

There were four major factors for this animosity: Paine denied that the Bible was a sacred, inspired text ; he argued that Christianity was a human invention ; his ability to command a large readership frightened those in power ; and his irreverent and satirical style of writing about Christianity and the Bible offended many believers.

They get away with a lot of money, but Laurie has an uncontrollable homicidal streak that comes out when she is frightened ; during the robbery, she kills her office manager and a security guard.

There were odd stories about him ; as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened .”

Initially frightened of the parrot, Koko named him " Devil Tooth ", " devil " presumably coming from his being mostly red, and " tooth " for his fierce-looking white beak ; the human staff adjusted the name to " Devil Beak ", and ultimately to " DB ".

Peter Fuller in his book Theoria: Art and the Absence of Grace writes, " It has been said that he was frightened on the wedding night by the sight of his wife's pubic hair ; more probably, he was perturbed by her menstrual blood.

Aroused out of his first sleep by Ruth, he was greatly frightened, as he thought that she was a devil ; and he was convinced of the contrary only after touching the hair of her head, since devils were believed to be bald ( Tan., l. c .).

Wanting revenge, Jacen channels his hatred for Vergere into Force lightning ; he is frightened by this connection to the dark side, however, and runs away.

In the summer of 1917 the CIGS General Robertson sent Haig a biting description of the members of the War Cabinet, who he said were all frightened of Lloyd George ; he described Curzon as " a gasbag ".

A relative remembered Hardy as being somewhat shy and unassuming, with a good dry sense of humor ; that he was easily frightened by sudden loud noises, and superstitious about passing by graveyards.

Reportedly, he was frightened of thunderstorms, and so pyrophobic that he rarely cooked his food ; he lived largely on hard-boiled eggs, which he prepared 50 at a time while boiling glue for his artworks.

According to some they were designed to foil attacks by Tatar lasso ; another theory has it that the sound of vibrating feathers attached to the wings made a strange sound that frightened enemy horses during the charge.

Margaret becomes frightened upon hearing an ominous howl ; Michael investigates, retrieving a flashlight and revolver from his car, and finds Peppy lying dead on the ground.

Early concerts found Mooney and Suzuki often able to shock audiences with their unusual vocal styles, as different as they were from one another ; Suzuki's debut performance with Can in 1970 nearly frightened an audience to the point of rioting due to his odd style of vocalizing.

: And frightened " Old Virginny " till she trembled thru and thru ;

In the 911 call, she stated she was ' fighting ' the intruder ; however, at trial this was heavily disputed by the defense team, who said she stated she was ' frightened.

::" if the day were bright, you observed upon the house – tops, stretching far away, a long dark path ; the shadow of the Monument ; and turning round, the tall original was close beside you, with every hair erect upon his golden head, as if the doings of the city frightened him.