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and Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization ( 1960 ) describes a world which, frightened by the powers of destruction science has given it, becomes static and conformist.

After finding that its coasts led nowhere, however, he turned north again, toward the main, ice-filled passageway -- and the crew, at first uneasy, then frightened, rebelled.

He wondered if he might bag a tourist, but they looked frightened of him.

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

When offered a morsel it glanced right and left and winced, obviously frightened and expecting a kick, but too hungry not to snatch the tidbit.

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.

Cortés wrote that the other lords would be too frightened to plot against him again, as they believed he had uncovered the plan through magic powers.

When frightened or fleeing from danger, Zoidberg makes a high-pitched whooping sound, similar to Curly in The Three Stooges or squirts ink at his attacker.

If the distant patron of the suburban branch has been frightened away from downtown by traffic problems, however, the city store can only pressure the politicians to do something about the highways or await the completion of the federal highway program.

While growing up, Victor's mother taught him numerous conspiracy theories and obscure medical facts which both confused and frightened him.

The weakened sailors had trouble fending off the tall and robust natives until a few shots from the Trinidad's big guns frightened them off the ship and they retreated into the surrounding jungle.

Mary becomes frightened when she discovers her son's illness and the dying alien, just as government agents invade the house.

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.

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

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

In a voice so frightened as to seem not his own, the big bo'sun's mate quavered:

He was frightened ; ;

* Do not get frightened in adversity.

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??

He strode past the now frightened man, entered the house.

In this sense then, Joan leaves the play as neither saintly nor demonic, but as a frightened woman pleading fruitlessly for her life.

Liza, a " coward " according to the third person narrator, is frightened because Mrs Blakeston is strong whereas she herself is weak.

Her experiences while incarcerated, along with the killing of her husband, change her from a very frightened young girl into a hardened convict.

It wasn't the roughness and crudity and discomfort of the trip that had frightened her.

After Performing in Rio's Hollywood Rock Festival in April 1996, Supergrass met the infamous train robber Ronnie Biggs, and apparently said to him, " I was frightened for my life when I heard there was a supergrass in the area.