These words must have frightened her, for she skurried away very fast.

She could make no response without insulting him further, and his words had in fact frightened her.

Her concentration was such that his first words frightened her.

Last night, his words, the anger in his voice, had frightened her.

Sometimes, a word from the coach frightens a player into good health.

The word itself frightened her; it sounded like dread and white silence.

Your words almost frighten me, from their want of meaning.

Her words frightened me more than anything I had heard in a long time.

More than the passion and demand in his eyes, the words frightened her.

These words frightened her even more than his immoral claims about women wearing men's clothing.