For me no terrors resided in the thought of bugaboos and wicked ogres.
From my earliest recollection my sleep was a period of terror. Rarely were my dreams tinctured with happiness.
With a scream he turned to flee back into the lesser terrors of the gloomy corridors and apartments from which he had just emerged, but the frightful men anticipated his intentions.
The horrid cry that had come down to him from above through the ancient well-shaft still haunted him, so that he trembled in terror at even the sounds of his own cautious advance.
There was a fearful scream of anguish and
terror from the black, and mingled with it was the hideous challenge of the killing panther.
This elusive quality it is, which causes the thought of whiteness, when divorced from more kindly associations, and coupled with any object terrible in itself, to heighten that
terror to the furthest bounds.
The hideous night with its indescribable
terrors was gone.
She did not sleep much until the night was half spent; but at last Nature overcame her
terrors of the black abyss beneath and the hairy body of the wild beast at her side, and she fell into a deep slumber which outlasted the darkness.
But even when he understood the cause of his
terror he could not shake it off.
Since that time, which is far enough away now, I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under
terror. No matter how unreasonable the
terror, so that it be
terror.
Once he uttered a piercing call that reverberated through the jungle; but Tantor, in the panic of
terror, either failed to hear, or hearing, dared not pause to heed.
It was Passepartout who, playing his part with a happy audacity, had passed through the crowd amid the general
terror.
In the gray of the morning the two students, pallid and haggard from anxiety and with the
terror of their adventure still beating tumultuously in their blood, met at the medical college.
An' there, across the ring, I could see the Chicago
Terror, an' I had to do some thinkin' to remember I was fightin' him.
The nurse, having placed the beverage prepared by the doctor within reach of the patient, and locked the door, was listening with
terror to the comments of the servants in the kitchen, and storing her memory with all the horrible stories which had for some months past amused the occupants of the ante-chambers in the house of the king's attorney.
