Boswell was easily frighted when talk turned to the supernatural.
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Like frighted pigeons when the vulture darts upon the dovecot.
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So the colleen left her, and came back, crying and frighted.
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Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense, so forcible is thy wit.
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You were frighted by a vision, by a nightmare, by a succubus of the night.
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I warrant you were frighted, wer'n't you, last night, when it blew but a capful of wind?
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He set up his pipes in the cart and frighted the bearers and others so that they ran away.
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Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.
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Frighted, he quickly removed all the scrolls from the urn and stuffed them in the knapsack, and hurriedly exited the chamber.
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Our long ride from Newark to Chester had wearied me, and the restive days of preparation had both excited and frighted me.
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Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too, And the deft sun-assaulter, he That frighted thee so oft, is fled or dead.
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Some few persons I have met by chance, and sent them home heartily frighted, as from the oddness of my dress and figure they took me for a ghost or a hobgoblin.
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Again Elsie idolizes this new man and asks him to escort her home. They encounter a footpad on the way, who robs them both. The thief is frighted off by a policeman, but Elsie finds he is married with five children. Then she is robbed again.
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Gilman, E. Ward (ed.). 1989. "A Brief History of English Usage", Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Springfield (Mass.): Merriam-Webster, pp. 7a-11a, Dryden created the proscription against "preposition stranding" in 1672 when he objected to Ben Jonson's 1611 phrase, "the bodies that those souls were frighted from", though he did not provide the rationale for his preference.
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" The last two lines are evidence of Burns' alteration of the original stanza five which read: > "Their cogs o'brose, they scar'd at blows, > And homeward fast did flee, man." In stanza six, Burns changed the original lines: > "Lord Panmuir is slain, > Or in his en'mies' hands man," To negate the more general observation about "en'mies" to provide a much more specific account: > "Or fall'n in Whiggish hands, man." That Scottish Tories gave their lives, while Whigs ran away, is the final wry observation, enlarged from three lines to four: > "Then ye may tell, how pell an mell, > By red claymores and musket's knell, > Wi'dying yell, how Tories fell, > And Whigs to hell, > Flew off in frighted bands, man." However, a pen stroke through these very lines indicates Burns' dissatisfaction with them and his earlier three-line version is allowed to stand on the final page: > "Say, pell mell, wi' muskets' knell > How Tories fell, and Whigs to hell, > Flew off in frighted bands, man.
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At his trial (October 1660) Fleetwood pleaded guilty, was sentenced to death, and said, weeping, that he had confessed the fact, and wished he could express his sorrow.. Cites: Trial of the regicides, pp. 28, 276. A saving clause in the Act of Indemnity suspended the execution of those who claimed the benefit of the king's proclamation, unless their conviction was followed by a special act of parliament for their execution. Fleetwood accordingly petitioned parliament, stating that his name was inserted in the list of commissioners without his knowledge and against his will, and that his signature to the warrant was extorted by Cromwell, "whose power, commands, and threats (he being then young) frighted him into court".
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Location of Miringoni on the island of Mohéli Miringoni is a town located on the west coast of the island of Mohéli in the Comoros Islands. It is mostly formed by the people from the Island of Grand Comore. According to some historians of the Island, this town and some other three towns in Island where were formed as a gift from the sultan of Moheli that time to what the so- called "MASSUDJAYI MAWATWANI". They were the great fighters from the Island of Grand Comore who frighted against the invaders from the other Island of Anjouan who used to invade the Island in the harvest time and take their crops by force.
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However, the popular sentimental genre soon met with a strong backlash, as anti-sensibility readers and writers contended that such extreme behavior was mere histrionics, and such an emphasis on one's own feelings and reactions a sign of narcissism. Samuel Johnson, in his portrait of Miss Gentle, articulated this criticism: > She daily exercises her benevolence by pitying every misfortune that happens > to every family within her circle of notice; she is in hourly terrors lest > one should catch cold in the rain, and another be frighted by the high wind. > Her charity she shews by lamenting that so many poor wretches should > languish in the streets, and by wondering what the great can think on that > they do so little good with such large estates.Johnson, Samuel.
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Along with Sir George Treby and Sir Francis Winnington he defended London on a second Quo warranto charge in 1683, arguing that Corporations could not be charged for the wrongdoing of individuals. He lost, and in 1684 was asked to take a similar case for Berwick-upon-Tweed, this time advising surrender. In 1688 he was made a justice, and advised the House of Lords on the legality of Quo warranto seizures. After William III arrived in 1688 he was a close advisor, and helped persuade him to declare himself King, arguing that the throne was vacant due to James fleeing, saying James ‘went away because the terror of his own conscience frighted him and he durst stay no longer’.
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However, society's view of dissection remained unequivocal; most preferred gibbeting to the laying open of a corpse. Martin Gray, sentenced to death in 1721 for returning early from transportation, was "greatly frighted, least his Body should be cut, and torn, and mangled after Death, and had sent his Wife to his Uncle to obtain some money to prevent it." Vincent Davis, convicted in 1725 of murdering his wife, said he would rather be "hang'd in Chains" than "anatomiz'd", and to that effect had "sent many Letters to all his former Friends and Acquaintance to form a Company, and prevent the Surgeons in their Designs upon his Body". There are cases of criminals who survived the short drop, but dissecting the body removed any hope of escape from death's embrace.
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