Citations:affrighted
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English citations of affrighted
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- 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
- Nor is it possible to describe how many various shapes my affrighted imagination represented things to me in, how many wild ideas were found every moment in my fancy, and what strange, unaccountable whimsies came into my thoughts by the way.
- 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
- And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the steep gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah sees the rearing bowsprit pointing high upward, but soon beat downward again towards the tormented deep.
- So have I seen a bird with clipped wing making affrighted broken circles in the air, vainly striving to escape the piratical hawks.
- Even now, when the boats pulled upon this whale, and perilously drew over his swaying flukes, and the lances were darted into him, they were followed by steady jets from the new made wound, which kept continually playing, while the natural spout-hole in his head was only at intervals, however rapid, sending its affrighted moisture into the air.