Looking for sentences and phrases with the word affright? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Between him and the wife lies the young girl, who has fainted from affright.
If these are not mischief enough to affright thee, I know not what thou art.
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning or affright The liberty that we'll enjoy tonight.
As she turned in affright she was confronted by a white man.
The old custom of shaking hands fell into such general disuse, that many shrank back with affright at even the offer of a hand.
So that thou shalt not need I say, to feare or be affright, of all the shafts that Hie by day, nor terrours of the night.
But I fear to affright her, and so I am silent of it.
More than once doubting the protection of our rocky shield we retreated in affright, and it was only after repeated trials that we had confidence to pursue our investigations.
Examples from Classical Literature
It was the affright of the priest in the presence of a new agent, the printing press.
He groaned aloud unconsciously and started with affright at the sound of his own voice.
To tell the truth, these modernists did not permit the hereafter to awe or affright them.
And when she woke in wild affright it met her transfixed and horrified gaze.
In a swerve he almost stopped, every muscle of his big body trembling in affright.
Polly lingered near, affright in her heart, Oh, if her father were only there!
Her eyes roved to Garnache's, and fell away in affright before their glitter.
Mr. tooting had not exaggerated the tumult and affright at the Pelican Hotel.
It annoyed him that subordinate of his should thus appear unseen, unheard, unsummoned, and to her affright.
With a shriek of affright she plunged boldly into the midst of the smoke.
Blood and wounds, Master Joseph, think you to affright me with words?
There is a dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil, that turns things sweetest and holiest to phantoms of horror and affright.
The horse of the young Bostonian, who was in front, wheeled round with affright, and threw his unskilled rider.
Her look of affright I answered with one of composure, and finally with a smile, which perhaps flattered, and certainly soothed her.
We cannot estimate the affright which this plague inspired of yore, by contemplating it as the fangless monster of the present day.
She felt the novelty of her position, indeed, but no longer with disturbance or affright.
The man who was looking through the desk sprang up in affright.
They soon, however, got over their affright, and returned to their repast.
The very thought of it causes the sailor to shiver with affright.
The words heard by the party upon the staircase were the Frenchman's exclamations of horror and affright, commingled with the fiendish jabberings of the brute.
