Affright

(v. t.) To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.

(p. a.) Affrighted.

(n.) Sudden and great fear; terror. It expresses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror.

(n.) The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread.

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• My poor sister looked at the counsellor with affright. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She was up from the truckle-bed directly, wildly feeling about her for her basket, and gazing at him in affright. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• All these shews of despair struck Perdita with affright. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Their spectres will sometimes attend you, and affright even your innocent children. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There is a dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil, that turns things sweetest and holiest to phantoms of horror and affright. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Margaret had resolved not to mention the crowning and closing affright to her father. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Such incursions struck the English with affright, in all those towns where there was still sufficient population to feel the change. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They stood in little groups, talking in low tones, and ever casting affrighted glances behind them from their great rolling eyes. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• A dream had scarcely approached my ear, when it fled affrighted, scared by a marrow-freezing incident enough. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The woman was under apprehensions of the dry old man, for she whisked her apron away as he approached, and disclosed a pale affrighted face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Her little fingers fastened on his arm; she spoke and looked affrighted. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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