For me no
terrors resided in the thought of bugaboos and wicked ogres.
How long he crept on thus he could not guess; but at last, feeling that the tunnel's length was interminable, and exhausted by his efforts, by terror, and loss of sleep, he determined to lie down and rest before proceeding farther.
He took a step toward one of the exits, and then he halted, wide-eyed in astonishment and terror, for almost at the same instant a dozen doors opened in the courtyard wall and a horde of frightful men rushed in upon him.
Not seeing the cause, their fear-ridden minds were free to attribute the ghastly work to supernatural causes, and with the thought they turned, screaming, from the hut, bowling over those who stood directly behind them in the exuberance of their
terror.
Then he thought of the wormwood tossed by the wind, which he had twice ridden past, and he was seized with such
terror that he did not believe in the reality of what was happening to him.
But even assuming all this to be true; yet, were it not for the whiteness, you would not have that intensified
terror. As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in that creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the same quality in the Polar quadruped.
"They are coming behind you." But Tantor, the elephant, is a huge bunch of nerves, and now he was half panic-stricken by
terror.
The old rajah's body, indeed, now appeared upon the burning pyre; and the priests, recovered from their
terror, perceived that an abduction had taken place.
Still another hour of
terror passed during which the horse often raised his head to peer long and searchingly into the dark.
An' with that I make a rush for the
Terror, catchin' him unexpeeted.
The beast saw that she feared him, and being a brute enjoyed the evidence of the
terror his brutishness inspired.
It was easy to see that no doubt now remained in the young girl's mind as to the reality of the scene; her eyes started with
terror, her hands trembled, and she rapidly drew the bedclothes closer to her.