take fright

How if they take fright at her too much knowledge?

Don't all take fright at a name as if you were children.

It may be he's taken fright, now the time closes upon him.

The children took fright from the mothers, and most of them was crying as well.

He laid a hand on her back, lightly, in case she took fright.

Remember too, that the chub do not have to see you to take fright.

He was down on his knees, bowing, before she could take fright and run.

Your mount took fright upon the slope and threw you.

But I w too efficient, and the politicians took fright.

If the telephones had rung you would have taken fright.

She might well take fright and think it better to vanish."

The owners took fright at the challenge to their authority, and called on the military for assistance.

Then one of the ponies took fright at nothing and bolted.

One after another my master-masons took fright and deserted me.

As the Hungarians say, it is better to be frightened than to take fright.

But when the City looked at the gap where macroeconomic policy should have been, it took fright.

At this you both took fright and decided on a hasty retreat.

Although he did not attack the mission, its inhabitants took fright and it was abandoned.

He was so close that the bull would hear the click of the mechanism, and take fright.

"The werewolf must have heard you coming and taken fright," Anita said.

When my mother took fright, she never feared for herself or, I might add, for me.

But if he started talking Buddhism at them, they may well have taken fright.'

"Did the crowds in your dream also take fright?"

When the pig is slaughtered, however, it takes fright and returns to work.

I was afraid that you'd take fright from it, and that I'd lose you.