Terror Sentence Examples
Anger and terror were on his face.
A new terror filled her.
Had her family known the same terror in their last moments of life?
A wild impulse to jump seized me, but terror held me fast.
The horse's terror infected the men.
The fact that she shows no terror as she sits before me is most vexing.
Terror drove her to ignore the pain in her lungs and legs.
It was a scene of terror not only to the accused but to judges and to jury.
He was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, and was only released by the counter-revolution of the 9th Thermidor.
On the Third himself, and took advantage of the wars of the Syrian princes, and of the terror inspired by the advance of the crusaders to conquer Jerusalem (August 1098).
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Infected by the terror in his voice, she sat up and flipped on the light.
Terror on his face, Isac stayed where he was.
The worst thing was their terror of reaching the bottom of this great crack in the earth, and the natural fear that sudden death was about to overtake them at any moment.
Pierre knew that everyone was waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror seized him at the thought of that dreadful step.
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Terror seized young Nicholas and he awoke.
Sarah and Connor stood above, gawking at her with a mix of terror and awe.
All was now terror and confusion.
Then came the memorable "proscription," when for the first time in Roman history a list of men declared to be outlaws and public enemies was exhibited in the forum, and a reign of terror began throughout Rome and Italy.
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She.d never known the type of terror that tore through her when she saw the jaguar snatch him.
They were a weapon apt to be dangerous to the employer, but the terror they inspired was such that every potentate sought to get hold of them.
After being twice imprisoned during the Terror he retired to Brittany, where he devoted himself to literature till 1814.
The Greeks, advancing prematurely over broken ground and in no sort of order, were fallen upon in flank by d feat at Reshid's horsemen, and fled in panic terror.
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Terror washed over her at his calm, controlled words.
Terror of Darkyn finding out made Jade snap, and he withdrew his machete.
The Cordeliers were combated by those revolutionists who wished to end the Terror, especially by Danton, and by Camille Desmoulins in his journal Le Vieux Cordelier.
With the ferocious fanaticism or the ruthless opportunism of the future organizers of the Terror they had nothing in common.
All Rome was in terror.
The mere thought filled me with terror.
Hence, too, he spoiled nothing by anxious revision in terror lest some phrase not of the golden age should escape from his pen.
The excuse for the Terror that followed was the imminent peril of France, menaced on the east by the advance of the armies of the Coalition, on the west by the Royalist insurrection of La Vendee, and the need for preventing at all costs the outbreak of another civil war.
The Hungarians (Magyars) declined to surrender the territories inhabited by Slovaks, and it was necessary to call in the military help of the Czechs before the last Hungarian troops, who had initiated a reign of terror in Slovakia, could be driven out of the land.
Then followed a reign of terror which lasted for years.
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But during the night the fury of the wind increased to such a degree that it thrilled us with a vague terror.
With fingers on the trigger guard just in case we made an error, sweat pouring down our backs as we lay in terror.
Ulster people have had nearly 30 years of a fearsome terror campaign inflicted on them, a campaign which cost 3,600 lives.
What causes night terrors can vary from the stress felt by a three year old during a family divorce to a medication-induced night terror in an adult.
Trauma Terror is a thrilling drop ride with great views before the final plummet down to earth.
These creatures can be seen as objects of terror, or of strength.
Simple galls are those that arise when only one member of a plant is involved; compound galls 1 For figure and description see Zoology of the " Erebus " and " Terror," ii.
Luther limited the meaning of the word to mean a definite command accompanied by threats, which counts on terror to produce obedience.
The mercantile marine of the United States was almost driven off the high seas by the terror of these destructive cruisers.
He was murdered by royalists during the White Terror at Avignon on the 2nd of August 1815.
The capture of Antioch was due to his connexion with Firuz, one of the commanders in the city; but he would not bring matters to an issue until the possession of the city was assured him (May 1098), under the terror of the approach of Kerbogha with a great army of relief, and with a reservation in favour of Alexius, if Alexius should fulfil his promise to aid the crusaders.
On each succeeding anniversary of that day, with the prevalent desire of perpetuating a feud, the citizens marched out to Cullenswood with banners displayed - "a terror to the native Irish."
Dublin castle was fortified; and the citizens lived in a state of terror for several weeks together.
After spreading terror through Calabria, he crossed over to Sicily, where he concerted further attacks on the French.
After the Reign of Terror Maine de Biran took part in political affairs.
In Catalonia, with a state of siege, he made himself the terror of the anarchists and socialists.
That' education was delivered up to the Church was partly the result of the terror inspired in the middle classes by the socialistic upheavals of 1848.
From the Fijian and Andaman islander who exhibits abject terror at seeing himself in a glass or in water, to the English or European peasant who covers up the mirrors or turns them to the wall, upon a death occurring, lest an inmate of the house should see his own face and have his own speedy demise thus prognosticated, the idea holds its ground.
But, as Murray and his partisans returned to favour and influence no longer incompatible with that of Bothwell and Huntly, he grew desperate enough with terror to dream of escape to France.
This passion or emotion, according to those who deny her attachment to Bothwell, was simply terror - the blind and irrational prostration of an abject spirit before the cruel force of circumstances and the crafty wickedness of men.
The terror of the Hunnish invasion, in 899, further assisted the people in their progress towards freedom, for it compelled them to take arms and to fortify their city, rendering Milan more than ever independent of the feudal lords who lived in their castles in the country.
After spreading desolation through North Italy and striking terror into the citizens of Rome, Alaric was met by Stilicho at Pollentia (a Roman municipality in what is now Piedmont), and the battle which then followed on the 6th of April 402 (Easter-day) was a victory, though a costly one for Rome, and effectually barred the further progress of the barbarians.
But in 1796, the Directory having offered to release his mother and his two brothers, who had been kept in prison since the Terror, on condition that he went to America, he set sail for the United States, and in October settled in Philadelphia, where in February 1 797 he was joined by his brothers the duc de Montpensier and the comte de Beaujolais.
His character has been misrepresented by Roman writers, whom his name inspired with terror down to the times of the empire.
He certainly was no mere advocate of orthodoxy; he as certainly was no mere victim of terror at scepticism; least of all was he a freethinker in disguise.
The Magyars, unable to cope with a disciplined army, were cut down in great numbers, and those who survived rode in terror from the field.
The aristocratic class saw ruin before it if the smallest concession were made to popular wishes, and it soon recovered from the terror into which it had been plunged at the outbreak of the revolution.
The speech is an eloquent and vivid picture of the reign of terror which the Thirty established at Athens; the concluding appeal, to both parties among the citizens, is specially powerful.
He joined in the attack upon the Girondists, but, as member of the committee of general security, he condemned the system of the Terror.
These exploits won him the name of the " terror of Greeks and Saracens."
During the Terror Raynal lived in retirement at Passy and at Montlhery.
The Pindaris had ceased to exist, and peace and security had been substituted for misery and terror.
This predatory tribe, issuing from Nubia, was long to be- the terror DI Upper Egypt.
On Frederick himself lay the terror of death, and the chaplain was able to send to the king a favourable report of his orthodoxy and his changed disposition.
On his return to London England was in the throes of the popish terror.
The terror of the Whigs turned to joy when they heard that Dundee himself had fallen in the arms of victory.
We cannot to-day determine the exact homes or provenance of these freebooters, who were a terror alike to the Frankish empire, to England and to Ireland and west Scotland, who only came into view when their ships anchored in some Christian harbour, and who were called now Normanni, now Dacii, now Danes, now Lochlannoch; which last, the Irish name for them, though etymologically " men of the lakes or bays," might as well be translated " Norsemen," seeing that Lochlann was the Irish for Norway.
In terror they fled from the tomb, " and they said nothing to any man, for they feared.
Organized upon a sort of military and feudal basis, they soon became a terror to all their neighbours, marching east into Sikkim, west into Kumaon, and south into the Gangetic plains.
During the Reign of Terror he was imprisoned at St Lazare; there he began his Precis de l'histoire universelle, afterwards published in nine volumes.
In bands they came from the provinces to Medina to wring concessions from Othman, who, though his armies were spreading terror from the Indus and Oxus to the Atlantic, had no troops at hand in Medina.
In spite of all this complicated machinery of checks and balances, revolution followed upon revolution, nor could an occasional reign of terror be prevented like that of the Signore Gauthier de Brienne, duke of Athens (1342-1343).
There he introduced the Terror in its most terrible form.
There is a legend, current among historians from the days of Robertson and Hallam, that as the year 1000 approached mankind prepared for the Last Judgment; that the earth "clothed itself with the white mantle of churches," and like a penitent watched in terror and in prayer for the fatal dawn.
A terror to evildoers and a praise to well-doers in this world, probably beyond what was ever seen since."
But these people were rendered licentious in revolt or impotent for salutary action by ignorance, by terror, by uneasy dread of the doom declared for heretics and rebels.
The unscrupulous rigour with which he applied his scientific method, and the sinister deductions he thought himself justified in drawing from the results it yielded, excited terror and repulsion.
A reign of terror followed; proscriptions, confiscations, and executions became general; some of the noblest citizens were put to death, and Cicero fell a victim to Antony's revenge.
Lingard's History gives an exhaustive and trustworthy account of the Popish terror and its victims; and the chief incidents in Oates's career are graphically described by Macaulay.
His father, a president of the parlement of Paris, who came of the family of the famous president noticed below, was guillotined during the Terror, and Count Mole's early days were spent in Switzerland and in England with his mother, a relative of Lamoignon-Malesherbes.
The Esthonians first appear in history as a warlike and predatory race, the terror of the Baltic seamen in consequence of their piracies.
Internal dissensions immediately broke out, the new president was assassinated, and after a brief reign of terror the province resumed its allegiance to the empire.
In 428 or 429 the whole nation set sail for Africa, upon an invitation received by their king from Bonifacius, count of Africa, who had fallen into disgrace with the court of Ravenna Gunderic was now dead, and supreme power was in the hands of his bastard brother, who is generally known in history as Genseric, though the more correct form of his name is Gaiseric. This man, short of stature and with limping gait, but with a great natural capacity for war and dominion, reckless of human life and unrestrained by conscience or pity, was for fifty years the hero of the Vandal race and the terror of Constantinople and Rome.
During the Terror, as he had belonged to the Girondin party, he was obliged to seek safety in the mountains.
Arrested with Robespierre and Saint-Just, his colleagues in the triumvirate of the Terror, and subjected to indescribable sufferings and insults, he was taken to the scaffold on the same cart with Robespierre on the 28th of July 1794 (loth Thermidor).
He in fact never obtained possession of it, probably because the pope had already "provided" it to Robert of Stretton, a papal chaplain, who, however, asked in January 1362 for a canonry at Lincoln instead, because he was "in fear and terror of a certain William of Wykeham."
Throughout the Terror, in spite of attacks in the Convention, in the press, and on placards posted at the street corners, he appeared in the streets in his episcopal dress and daily read mass in his house.
Next day Cicero awoke the terror of the people by a second oration delivered in the forum, in consequence of which Catiline and Manlius were declared public enemies, and the consul Antonius was despatched with an army against them.
That the thing made a great flame, a great noise, and struck terror into the beholder is about the sum of it all.
They now began to feel themselves abandoned not only by man but by God; for an explosion of some of their gunpowder, on the morning of the 8th, by which Catesby and some others were scorched, struck terror into their hearts as a judgment from heaven.
The perspective changes - the Renaissance grows less and the middle ages more; the Protestant Revolution becomes a complex of economics and politics and religion; the French Revolution a vast social reform in which the Terror was an incident, &c., &c. The result has been a complete transformation of history since the middle of the 19th century.
Such are the similar effects of terror on man and the lower animals, causing the muscles to tremble, the heart to palpitate, the sphincters to be relaxed, and the hair to stand on end.
When, however, Bernard, not without foregone terror in the prospect of meeting the redoubtable dialectician, had opened the case, suddenly Abelard appealed to Rome.
In the same pamphlet he defends an appeal to the emotions, and advocates preaching terror when necessary, even to children, who in God's sight " are young vipers.
Neither Leonardo's genius nor his noble manners could soften the rude and taunting temper of the younger man, whose style as an artist, nevertheless, in subjects both of tenderness and terror, underwent at this time a profound modification from Leonardo's example.
He was moreover a coward, and went in such constant terror of assassination that he always surrounded himself with a regular bodyguard.
Treatises on poverty appeared on every side; the party of Occam clamoured with increasing imperiousness for the condemnation of John by a general council; and the Spirituals, confounded in the persecution with the Beghards and with Fraticelli of every description, maintained themselves in the south of France in spite of the reign of terror instituted in that region by the Inquisition.
But soon the thought struck him that, if he persisted in such wickedness, the steeple would fall on his head; and he fled in terror from the accursed place.
The help of the engraver had early been called in; and tens of thousands of children looked with terror and delight on execrable copperplates, which represented Christian thrusting his sword into Apollyon, or writhing in the grasp of Giant Despair.
Although he was imprisoned in the Luxembourg during the Terror, he took no part of any importance in the Revolution, but profited by it to amass a little fortune by land speculation - not on any selfish account, however, as he said, but to facilitate his future projects.
Ranuccio was a reserved and gloomy bigot; he instituted savage persecutions against supposed witches and heretics, and lived in perpetual terror of plots.
As has been remarked above, the terror of postbaptismal sin and the fact that only one restoration was allowable influenced many as late as the 4th century to remain catechumens all their lives, and, like Constantine, to receive baptism on the deathbed alone.
Hofmann and Claus Frey, an anabaptist, were detained in prison, a measure due to the terror excited by the Minster episode of 1533-1534.
The emperor seemed to be threatening the independence of the North, and in terror and resentment the Scandinavian peoples turned first to strike at the encroaching Frank, and soon after to assail the other Christian kingdoms which lay behind, or on the flank of, the Empire.
The rising was led by Robert of Belesme, earl of Shrewsbury, a petty tyrant of the most ruffianly type, the terror of the Welsh marches.
His success did almost as much harm as good to his cause, for the deliberate sack of the city was carried out with such ruthless severity that it roused wild wrath rather than terror in the neighboring regions.
Oxford and Suffolk succeeded in escaping to France, but the king and the rest of his adherents fell into the hands of the lords appellant They threatened for a moment to depose him, but finally placed him under the control of a council and ministers Execution chosen by themselves, and to put him in a proper of the state of terror, executed Lord Beauchamp, the judge, kings Sir Robert Tressilian.
The Orleariist party was shaken in its power; the rival Burgundian faction became more inclined to commit ilself to the English cause, and the terror of the English arms weighed heavily upon both.
Terror and pity had never found on the stage word or expression which so exactly realized the ideal aim of tragic poetry among the countrymen of Aeschylus and Sophocles since the time or since the passing of Shakespeare, of Marlowe and of Webster.
Angelo, Tyran de Padoue (1835), the last of the tragic triad to which their creator denied the transfiguration of tragic verse, is inferior to neither in power of imagination and of style, in skill of invention and construction, and in mastery over all natural and noble sources of pity and of terror.
Between this opening and this close the pageant of history and of legend, marshalled and vivified by the will and the hand of the poet, ranges through an infinite variety of action and passion, of light and darkness, of terror and pity, of lyric rapture and of tragic triumph.
It was this very quality of passionless detachment that made him so effective an instrument of the Terror.
The princes of Baroda were one of the chief branches of the Mahratta confederacy, which in the 18th century spread devastation and terror over India.
As the elections to the Convention were close at hand, the Commune resolved to strike the public with terror by the slaughter of its prisoners.
The rest of the House, nearly Soo members, voted now on one side now on the other, until in the course of the Terror they fell under the Jacobin domination.
The Jacobins controlled the parent club with its affiliated societies and the whole machinery of terror.
The galleries of the Convention were packed with adherents of the Jacobins, whose fury, not confined to words, struck terror into all who might incline towards mercy.
The Royalist and Girondin insurrections and the critical aspect of the war favoured the establishment of what is known as the reign of terror.
The disastrous effects of the Terror were heightened by the financial mismanagement of the Jacobins.
When he became aware of the feud between Robespierre and the Commune, he conceived the hope of limiting the Terror and guiding the Revolution into a sane course.
He knew that he could be safe only by keeping power and powerful only by making the Terror more stringent.
Two days after the festival his friend Couthon presented the crowning law of the Terror, known as the Law of 22 Prairial.
The growing ferocity of the Terror appeared more hideous as the dangers threatening the government receded.
Under these circumstances government by terror could not endure.
Such was the revolution of the 9th Thermidor (27th of July 1 794) which ended the Reign of Terror.
The names on the list of emigres at the close of the Terror were about 150,000.
The carnage of the Terror spread far beyond the clergy and the nobility, beyond even the middle class, for peasants and artisans were among the victims. It spread far beyond those who could conspire or rebel, for bedridden old men and women and young boys and girls were often sacrificed.
By imbuing Frenchmen with such a mutual hatred as nothing but the arm of despotic power could control the Reign of Terror rendered political liberty impossible for many years.
The Reign of Terror was the expedient of a party which knew its weakness and unpopularity.
Forty-six years of enforced retirement had qualified him for the cloister rather than for the throne, and his first feeling when notified of his accession was one of terror for his brother's vengeance.
For war the natives smear themselves in grotesque fashion with lime or ochres, and in some parts hold in their teeth against the chin a face-like mask, supposed to strike terror into the foe, against whom they advance warily (if not timidly), yelling and blowing their war-trumpets.
He was arrested during the Terror, and narrowly escaped the guillotine.
This reign of terror was brought to a close in 1861 by the death of the queen and the accession of her son Radama II.
Hence the sixty years of terror and confusion which came between Charlemagne and the death of Charles the Bald suppressed the direct authority of the king in favor of the nobles, and prepared the way for a second destruction of the monarchy at the hands of a stronger power (see FEUDALISM).
Amid this reign of terror and of revolt the university, the only moral and intellectual force, taking the place of the impotent The Or- states-general and of a parlement carefully restricted to donnance the judiciary sphere, vainly tried to re-establish a firm Cabo- monarchical system by means of the Ordonnance Cabochienne.
The former overwhelmed John the Fearless, who fled from Paris; and the Armagnacs, re-entering on his exit, substituted white terror for red terror, from the 12th of December 1413 to the 28th of July 1414.
Despite this Reign of Terror Danton failed; he could neither dominate foes within nor divide those without.
The specialists answered foreign foes by their organization of victory; as for foes at home, the triumvirate crushed them beneath the Terror.
The former would not admit that the Terror was only a temporary method of defence; for them it was a permanent system which was even to.
The festival of the new doctrine, which turned the head of the new pontiff (June 8), the loi de Prairial, or code of legal murder (June 10), which gave the deputies themselves into his hand; and the multiplication of executions at a time when the victory of Fleurus (June 25) showed the uselessness and barbarity of this aggravation of the Reign of Terror provoked against him the victorious coalition of revenge, lassitude and fear.
Although brought about by the Terrorists, the tragic fall of Robespierre put an end to the Reign of Terror; for their chiefs having disappeared, the subordinates were too much Thfrd divided to keep up the dictatorship of the third commiUee Committee of Public Safety, and reaction soon set in.
In the south, the companions of Jehu and of the Sun inaugurated a White Terror, which had not even the apparent excuse of the public safety or of exasperated patriotism.
In the hurry of first terror, the church struck Aristotle with the anathema launched against innovations in philosophy.
The rush of the Mahommedan flood sent terror all over Europe, but the little opposition it encountered south of the Pyrenees is to be easily explained, and the victory, though genuine, was more specious than substantial.
On the 28th martial law was proclaimed throughout Spain; and now began a military reign of terror, which lasted until the end of September.
Those were indeed strange times, according to modern ideas, when astrologers were dominant by the terror they inspired, and sometimes by the martydom they endured when their predictions were either too true or too false.
In the winter of 1905-1906 Batum was in the hands of the revolutionists, and a "reign of terror" lasted for several weeks.
The great majority of the Bavarian Catholic Volkspartei, however, as well as Liberals of various shades, not to speak of the Royalists and reactionaries, wanted further guarantees against a recurrence of the Bolshevist terror.
Dusty's skills were legendary, but Damian had held off on what he considered a reign of terror for his seasoned Guardians.
The immortals in the cell block threw out their best offers, and she couldn't help the sense of terror settling into her gut.
Instead, she was greeted by shrieks from Martha and Gladys, causing her to drop the poor creature and flee in terror, stark contrast to her anticipated moment of glory.
The situation created abject terror.
The threat of further terror strikes in the capital has not abated.
The creatures are also using a sophisticated android to strike terror into the local villagers.
But al-Qaeda is growing in support as a result of the ' War on Terror ' and a perceived American ignorant arrogance.
The Birmingham Post - Monday 24th September 2001 Article regarding a student at Aston being questioned in connection with the terror attacks in America.
The terror of the rest of my life beckons, but for now I'm just going to play my music really loud.
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There followed more show ' trials ' of leading communists as a means for expanding the new terror.
They further show the inherently contradictory nature of the concept of " Islamic terror " .
One of the set decorators on Galaxy of Terror was a Bill Paxton.
The officers ' uniforms cowed the most offensive of the rowdies, but I don't think the terror was very deep-seated.
The poll also suggests that the public are increasingly distrustful of what ministers tell them about the terror threat facing the country.
Two nights before, I dreamt of being confronted by a fierce, very awake dragon and it evoked terror in me.
A situation that was probably quite festive suddenly turns nasty, and mere tiredness turns to terror at the prospect of being drowned.
Iraq has become the frontline in the War against Terror.
Stricken with terror, Ivor thought he could see goblins and hobgoblins grinning wherever his lantern light flashed.
In Act Two, Meier enacted the living nightmare of Sieglinde - she is haunted by guilt and terror - with terrific intensity.
Bet you didn't know about the bloody insurgency that bought terror to germany after the war.
Eventually, with aid cut off and no hope of negotiations, Hamas will revert to terror and the third intifada will begin.
Britain has joined the long list of nations to be directly targeted by extremist Islamist terror.
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Pollard's " the Guardianista fellow-travellers of terror " is simply lazy journalese and quite demagogic, like a right wing version of Galloway.
At every single level, we have to pursue and dismantle this machinery of terror.
In fact voluntary manslaughter is where a person is killed by someone else in rage, terror or desperation.
Then, he realizes in terror that the knife is hovering above his right nipple.
Stage Four Sleep is the period when Sleep Terror Disorder (also known as Night Terrors or pavor nocturnes) occurs.
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He may have been asleep, or he may have been so paralyzed with terror as to have been unable to cry out.
The deformed mutants and odd-ball psychotics will have their place in my Legions of Terror.
He also rebutted the notion that existing policies relating to terror alerts ought to come under review.
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Hares that escape the savagery may die later, from sheer shock and terror.
A TERRIBLE shambles 29 June 2006 MINISTERS must take responsibility for the latest terror law shambles.
Soon they heard shrieks of terror, which made the blood run cold in their veins.
Mig has to overcome real terror and the sort of intellectual sloth induced by the role Aunt Maria has thrust upon her.
He must investigate a spate of murders which has reduced the city to a state of terror.
The Scottish setting and dialog add a bit of exotic spice for readers tired of terror tales set in small town America.
They are surrounded by the stench of death and many will bellow and thrash around in terror.
Amnesty International have attacked the UK because of deals the government have made with various countries which allow them to deport terror suspects.
Use more control orders against British terror suspects, who cannot be deported Oh goody - house arrest for everyone.
It was a prime terror target, a magnet for anarchists, warned the press.
Fright Nights are back for 2006 and this year promises to unleash more terror than ever before.
But it used to mean instilling terror and it still can given a subtle change of context.
For months there have been no reliable sightings of the man who has struck terror into the hearts of millions worldwide.
Today's wave of destruction also underlines the futility of trying to defeat terror by ever more repressive legislation.
The tactic chosen by renegade loyalist Billy Wright of spreading terror by randomly choosing a victim had paid off.
She curled around her tawdry bag, whining piteously, abject terror in her wide staring eyes. she began to cry.
A mad, unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes.
By the 1980s, the deportations and show trials and other aspects of the Stalinist terror were fading from public memory.
Despite the sanctions, Saddam continued to impose " unspeakable terror and evil " on his own people.
Authorities say the arrests were not linked to a specific terror threat.
The dragnet extended to Birmingham where one man was arrested under terror laws but later released uncharged.
From the savage state, through the terror that gives birth to religions, through the creation of families by marriage, through burial rites and piety towards the dead, men approach civilization with the aid of poetic wisdom, and pass through three periods - the divine, heroic and human - in which they have three forms of government, language, literature, jurisprudence and civilization.
He remained in prison till the month of October, when the Reign of Terror began.
On one hand the animal spirits " reflected " 2 from the image formed on the pineal gland proceed through the nervous tubes to make the muscles turn the back and lift the feet, so as to escape the cause of the terror.
Their government became paternal; and, though there was no limit to their cruelty when stung by terror, they used the purse rather than the sword, bribery at home and treasonable intrigue abroad in preference to coercive measures or open war.
But the restored governments in their terror of revolution would not realize that the late rgime had wafted a breath of new life over the country and left ineffaceable traces in the way of improved laws, efficient administration, good roads and the sweeping away of old abuses; while the new-born idea of Italian unity, strengthened by a national pride revived on many a stricken field from Madrid to Moscow, was a force to be reckoned with.
It is only after the service of consecration and the mass are finished that the consecrating prelate asperses and blesses the mitre and places on the head of the newly consecrated bishop, according to the prayer which accompanies the act, " the helmet of protection and salvation," the two horns of which represent " the horns of the Old and New Testaments," a terror to " the enemies of truth," and also the horns of " divine brightness and truth " which God set on the brow of Moses on Mount Sinai.
By the wild alarms which culminated in the Popish Terror Russell appears to have been affected more completely than his otherwise sober character would have led people to expect.
The joys of heaven and the pains of hell are depicted in vivid sensuous imagery, as is also the terror of the whole creation at the advent of the last day and the judgment of the world.
The kings he sacrificed to Ammon and hanged six bodies on the walls, while the seventh was carried south to Napata and there exposed as a terror to the Ethiopians.
The anti-popery spirit was rapidly becoming a frenzy, and the succession of James a probability and a terror.
The belief in demons, mostly malignant, keeps the Koreans in constant terror, and much of their substance is spent on propitiations.
Their filthy habits and disgusting practices of gross promiscuous feeding, even to the extent of eating offal and dead men's flesh, look almost like a direct repudiation of the strict Brahmanical code of ceremonial purity and cleanliness, and of the rules regulating the matter and manner of eating and drinking; and they certainly make them objects of loathing and terror wherever they are seen.
In France the revolutionary constitution of 1791 abolished all restrictions on marriage, and during the Terror celibacy of ten exposed a priest to suspicion as an enemy to the Republic; but the better part of the clergy steadily resisted this innovation, and it is estimated that only about 2% were married.
When it was thought sufficient to say with Boileau that Corneille excited, not pity or terror, but admiration which was not a tragic passion; or that "D'un seul nom quelquefois le son dur ou bizarre Rend un poeme entier ou burlesque ou barbare;" when Voltaire could think it crushing to add to his exposure of the "infamies" of Theodore - " apres cela comment osons-nous condamner les pieces de Lope de Vega et de Shakespeare?"
Next year the great tragic poem of Torquemada came forth to bear witness that the hand which wrote Ruy Blas had lost nothing of its godlike power and its matchless cunning, if the author of Le Roi s'amuse had ceased to care much about coherence of construction from the theatrical point of view as compared with the perfection of a tragedy designed for the devotion of students not unworthy or incapable of the study; that his command of pity and terror, his powers of intuition and invention, had never been more absolute and more sublime; and that his infinite and illimitable charity of imagination could transfigure even the most monstrous historic representative of Christian or Catholic diabolatry into the likeness of a terribly benevolent and a tragically magnificent monomaniac. Two years later Victor Hugo published the third and concluding series of La Legende des siecles.
Some of them cried, and the wild man of Borneo shrank from her sweet little face in terror.
The mere thought of her father's look filled her with terror.
The reddish Lyubim rushed forward from behind Milka, sprang impetuously at the wolf, and seized it by its hindquarters, but immediately jumped aside in terror.
He seized Anatole by the collar of his uniform with his big hand and shook him from side to side till Anatole's face showed a sufficient degree of terror.
His eyes, screwed up with fear as if he every moment expected another blow, gazed up at Rostov with shrinking terror.
The Governor's face expressed terror.
After Petya had joined Obolenski's regiment of Cossacks and left for Belaya Tserkov where that regiment was forming, the countess was seized with terror.
When she saw an indistinct shape in the corner, and mistook his knees raised under the quilt for his shoulders, she imagined a horrible body there, and stood still in terror.
They looked like rabbits caught in the headlights of a car, frozen with terror.
She is beginning to recover from the trauma of the last three years but now the terror of deportation is hanging over her.
Some others gladly look forward to a reign of terror.
Camera angle moves to just show her face as she screams in terror, then pain.
The glimpses of terror were far more frightening than the shambling monsters of today.
A TERRIBLE SHAMBLES 29 June 2006 MINISTERS must take responsibility for the latest terror law shambles.
It ensnares its victims in ' tentacles of terror ' before feeding them into one of its three slavering mouths.
We and our coalition partners have also removed the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, a long-time state sponsor of terror.
Including stockholders irc policy puts a on terror extends.
The people of the town, seized with terror, offered to surrender at discretion.
The foundations are already being laid that will allow ordinary Muslims to be continually targeted under the banner of fighting terror.
Today 's wave of destruction also underlines the futility of trying to defeat terror by ever more repressive legislation.
Sheer terror every time Orient crossed the half way line.
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Or largest mosque in Ohio plans more terror attacks.
Now, with the intercepted air terror plot in the news, his recommendation has been getting some attention.
On the other hand, maybe that 's where the terror tactics comes in.
These are the photographs of 24 tombstones in a little graveyard outside Castlederg each one a memorial to the terror of the IRA.
He opens a Pandora 's Box of terror and torment that will chill the blood.
Not even the Cold War was presented in such totalistic terms as the ` ` War against Terror ' '.
This morning he 'd been consumed with brooding and terror, but that was transmuting into something else.
The girls were sitting up in bed clinging to each other, and trembling with terror.
Fright Nights are back for 2006, and this year promises to unleash more terror than ever before.
Thus an endless " war on terror " was declared in the wake of the attacks on America.
The " war against terror " is unfolding against a background of a rapidly disintegrating world economy.
Fish and seafood buying shouldn't be a task that strikes terror in your heart.
Fortunately, for youngsters who like their stories with a bit of suspense and terror involved, there's no shortage of scary read alouds for children.
Rescue Remedy treats emotional upheavals as simple as a family argument or as complex as the terror suffered from an attack.
Finding a new space to make your own can either inspire a frenzy of activity or stark terror.
While in college, Seinfeld was an amateur wrestler known as "The Jewish Terror."
Even upon receiving a taped audition from Brolin that he put together with the help of directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez (he was working with them on Grindhouse and Planet Terror at the time), they passed on him for the role.
Criminal profilers use interviews and observations to determine more information about terror suspects.
Some people remember that they had a night terror the next morning.
On the other hand, most sleepers have no memory of the night terror when they wake up.
Fever - Prolonged periods of high fever due to illness can result in a night terror.
Sleep deprivation - Long periods without sleep can result in a night terror when the person is finally able to fall asleep.
Medications - Some medications are formulated to cause a chemical reaction in the brain, which in turn, can result in a night terror.
Up to six percent of all children experience the night terror disorder.
The disorientation continues through four inversions that take terror to new heights.
This park is also home to the infamous Tower of Terror drop ride and the outrageous launched Rock'n'Roller Coaster featuring music by Aerosmith.
Try out the Rock n' Roller Coaster featuring Aerosmith, or the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, where you'll board a spooky elevator and freefall 13 stories.
This is home to the famous thrill ride, Tower of Terror.
Urban Terror runs on the Quake III engine and is available as a freeware title for download online.
As both women escaped the campsite in terror, Rebecca couldn't continue on, so Claudia had to leave her.
Sleep terror disorder is a parasomnia in which the child awakens screaming or crying.
Sleep terror is sometimes referred to as pavor nocturnus.
Sleep terror disorder is most common in children four to 12 years old and is usually outgrown in adolescence.
Like sleep terror disorder, sleepwalking occurs during stage three and stage four NREM sleep during the first part of the night.
If children with sleep terror disorder or sleepwalking are treated with medication, then they may be given benzodiazepines because this type of medication suppresses stage three and stage four NREM sleep.
The child may sit bolt upright in acute terror, screaming inconsolably.
While experiencing the night terror the child is extremely disoriented and may stare straight ahead, eyes wide open, with the dark centers (pupils) enlarged.
The night terror may last from one to 15 minutes or more and is usually followed by a return to deep sleep.
Parents should not attempt to awaken a child experiencing a night terror.
Unusually heavy or spicy meals should be avoided before bedtime as indigestion might act as a trigger for night terror arousals.
Some pediatricians suggest that parents maintain a sleep diary and observe the child throughout several night terror episodes, noting the amount of time following sleep when the night terror begins.
After the sleep-wake pattern is determined, a series of 15-20 minutes prior to the usual occurrence of the night terror and keep the child awake and out of bed for a full five minutes.
The night terror might be triggered by a full bladder.
The screaming, flailing, and kicking that accompany a night terror may frighten parents who fear the child is having a seizure.
Nightmares are different than the non-dream sleep disturbance known as a night terror, which causes only a partial arousal from deep sleep and occurs during the first period of sleep known as slow-wave sleep (SWS).
A child experiencing a night terror will be difficult to awaken or comfort, will not recognize her parent or caretaker, and will usually have no memory of the terrifying emotions that caused the sleep disturbance.
This dance routine features erratic movements to go along with the theme of terror that reigns in the video.
There is always another challenge for dragons to face and an adversarial group attempting to thwart their reign of terror.
War on Terror is not a game for those with a weak heart or those who lack a sense of humor especially as it pertains to religion, politics and world affairs.
The particular quatrain predicts the coming of a Great King of Terror and ends in Mars joyfully ruling all.
In this particular reading, Planet X (also known as Niburu) is thought to be the Great King of Terror and the joy of Mars is actually war.
Expert Answer Perhaps you are thinking of The Terror (1963) starring Jack Nicholson as a French officer in Napolean's army.
Movies like Dr. Terror's House of Horrors and The Birds were all popular in the 1960's, giving audiences thrills and nightmares for months.
Much of the paranormal activity consists of things the viewer cannot participate in and must rely upon Fielding or the team to report, such as feelings of fear, doom or terror, or having clothes tugged by unseen hands.
The next morning he awoke to his wife's shrieks of terror.
They stood up, their eyes filled with terror, and raced out of the room.
Add to that the initial shock, surprise or even terror of unexpectedly seeing a huge ape-like creature, and you can understand why there isn't any better photographic evidence.
Marty's rape in the college dorm room put Kevin Buchanan in the hot seat and Todd Manning's reign of terror led to powerful leading man status.
The episode ran the gamut of emotions for the character that must face off against her own terror, her humiliation and the man who was responsible.
In modern times, there are folk protest songs on every cultural war and political hot button topic, from the Iraq war and gay rights to environmental protection and the War on Terror.
A Lesson in Terror - The group is taken to an abandoned school where they must search for class rings left behind by the presumably dead students.
With the help of Corvinus, the father of Marcus and William, Selene and Michael fight a battle to stop the twin brothers from reigning in terror over the modern rule.
He made it very clear he did not condone the actions of his people and did not wish to join the Founders and their rule of terror.
Oh, there was the occasional hint that the mixed-gender crew might fall in love and even marry (See Balance of Terror), but this was usually for dramatic purposes - a young groom suddenly dead is sadder than the death of a random red shirt.
He was often used as a target for human bigotry, as in Balance of Terror and Galileo Seven, with the human distrust, of course, always discovered to have been in error.
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) - A second Mechagodzilla returns to fight against Godzilla but he doesn't come alone.
Considered the King of Terror, King Ghidorah appeared in more Godzilla films than any of Godzilla's other enemies or allies.
His eventual defeat and imprisonment ended his reign of terror.
She balances her home life as a mom of two and her espionage life where she is a secret agent, and rescues the world from terror.
In addition to the Georgian government, a number of independent Georgian bloggers started writing impressive blog entries about the violence and terror taking place within the country.
She gurgled and choked, engulfed in terror.
A rabbit writhed in its claws, screaming in terror.
His presence was overwhelming, and her body reacted with both terror and lust so strong it made her head spin.
She brought nothing but terror.
She faced the goddess, rage streaking through her along with the terror of being mated to the Dark One.
Hannah exclaimed, her face a mask of terror.
This one would not feel euphoria, only pain and terror.
Jackson continued to scream Elisabeth's name with abject terror as she struggled to raise her head.
At that moment one of the goats darted by her, bleating in terror.
The terror on Lana's face was fresh in his thoughts, and he heard her scream again as he was flung from the helo, before it hit the water.
He closed his eyes to the darkness, struggling against his crippling terror.
It wasn't all desire; some of it was terror.
Under the Reign of Terror he was arrested and imprisoned for nearly a year, during which he studied Condillac and Locke, and abandoned the natural sciences for philosophy.
The words were constantly altered and added to during the Terror and later; thus the well-known lines, "Madame Veto avait promis De faire egorger tout Paris On lui coupa la tete," &c., were added after the execution of Marie Antoinette.
This shameful sentence was the outcome of mingled terror and obsequiousness.
The breaking out of the Popish Terror in 1678 marks the worst part of Shaftesbury's career.
The Unitarians were relentlessly hunted down and a veritable reign of terror ensued.
Unlike the American Indians, who supposed Columbus and his crew to be supernatural beings, and their ships in some way endowed with life, and were thrown into convulsions of terror by the first discharge of firearms which they witnessed, these Australians were neither excited to wonder by the ship nor overawed by the superior number and unknown weapons of the strangers.
Under the command of the lord of Lumbres, the lord of Treslong, and William de la Marck (lord of Lumey) they spread terror and alarm along the coast, seized much plunder, and in revenge for Alva's cruelty committed acts of terrible barbarity upon the priests and monks and catholic officials, as well as upon the crews of the vessels that fell into their hands.
In Mesopotamia and Yemen disturbance was endemic; nearer home, a semblance of loyalty was maintained in the army and among the Mussulman population by a system of delation and espionage, and by wholesale arrests; while, obsessed by terror of assassination, the sultan withdrew himself into fortified seclusion in the palace of Yildiz.
The terror of their name had long preceded them, and Bela, in 1235 or 1236, sent the Dominican monk Julian, by way of Constantinople, to Russia, to collect information about them from the "ancient Magyars" settled there, possibly the Volgan Bulgarians.
The purely selfish bond between condottieri and their employers, whether princes or republics, involved intrigues and treachery, checks and counterchecks, secret terror on the one hand and treasonable practice on the other, which ended by making statecraft in Italy synonymous with perfidy.
His infernal cunning often defeated its own aims, checkmating him at the point of achievement by suggestions of duplicity or terror.
His cruelty, his utter want of scruple, and his good fortune made him a terror to all Italy.
The Northmen of Denmark and Norway, whose piratical adventures were the terror of all the coasts of Europe, and who established themselves in Great Britain and Ireland, in France and The Sicily, were also geographical explorers in their rough but Nothmen.
Towards the end of the reign of Alexander II., the government, in order to preserve order in the country districts, also created a special class of mounted rural policemen (uryadniki, from uriad, order), who, armed with power to arrest all suspects on the spot, rapidly became the terror of the countryside.
Actually, however, its activity, directed mainly to the discovery of political offences, degenerated into a hideous reign of terror.
Dubrovin, president of the Union of the Russian People and organizer of pogroms, having written a letter of congratulation to the tsar on the occasion of the coup d'etat, received a gracious reply; the hideous reign of terror of the " Black Hundred " in Odessa did not prevent the Grand-duke Constantine from accepting the badge of membership of the Union.
A roll, it is said, was found in the Temple, its contents struck terror into the hearts of the priests and king, and it led to a solemn covenant before Yahweh to observe the provisions of the law-book which had been so opportunely recovered.
The Councils allowed the elections to be annulled in forty-nine departments of France, and re-enacted some of the laws of the period of the Terror, notably those against non-juring priests and returned émigrés.
Would-be plotters remained quiet from sheer terror of his power and ability, or from a conviction that conspiracies redounded to his advantage.
The growth of Venetian trade and wealth in the Levant roused the jealousy of Genoa and the hostility of the imperial court at Constantinople, where the Venetians are said to have numbered 200,000 and to have held a large quarter of the city in terror by their brawls.
In the strife which soon broke out between the Girondins and the Jacobins he took no decided part, but occupied himself mainly with the legal and legislative work which went on almost without intermission even during the Terror.
The figure of the giant who is supposed to have once held the Hazelbosch under his terror is paraded on this occasion as the "lounge man."
The series of exceptional measures by which that confusion of powers was created constitutes the "Revolutionary government" in the strict sense of the word, a government which was principally in vigour during the period called "the Terror."
Some of those proscribed during the Terror returned after the 9th of Thermidor.
In the Terror the number of those voting averaged only 250.
Terror was the first feeling produced at Copenhagen by the landing of the main Swedish army at Korsor in Zealand.
One passage will show the conjectural 1 It was of this book that Sir Charles Wetherell said, referring to its author, "and then there is my noble and biographical friend who has added a new terror to death."
This was the period of those devastating raids which made the savage Magyar horsemen the scourge and the terror of Europe.
During the long reign of Sigismund (1387-1437) Hungary was brought face to face with the Turkish peril in its most threatening shape, and all the efforts of the king were directed Turkish Turks crossed the Hellespont from Asia Minor and p began that career of conquest which made them the terror of Europe for the next three centuries.
A reign of terror ensued, during which the unfortunate principality was well-nigh ruined.
Meanwhile Pecs had become a centre of the exiled Magyar progressives, who preferred a provisional Yugoslav regime to the white terror of Adml.
Syracuse passed through another reign of terror; the new despot proclaimed himself the champion of popular government, and had the senate and the heads of the oligarchical party massacred wholesale.
His father was imprisoned during the Terror, and only released owing to the events of the 9th Thermidor.
In the opening lines of the second and third books we can mark the recoil of a humane and sensitive spirit from the horrors of the reign of terror which he witnessed in his youth, and from the anarchy and confusion which prevailed at Rome during his later years.
He voted for the death of Louis XVI., and as a member of the committees of national defence and of public safety he was despatched in October 1793 to Brittany, where he established the Terror.
The vanquished fled to London in terror and apparently found a shelter there.
Such was the terror inspired by these fierce warriors that many of the tribes, such as the Wa-Nindi of Mozambique, adopted the name of their conquerors or oppressors.
His influence, however, extended from the Limpopo to the borders of Cape Colony, and through the ravages of Swangendaba and Mosilikatze the terror of the Zulu arms was carried far and wide into the interior of the continent.
He remained to the last a man of the world, though tormented with an exaggerated terror of death.
Thus the pane, represented by its 6 (afterwards 9) captains, came to exercise a veritable reign of terror, and no one knew when an accusation might fall on him.
He retired to Marnes near Ville d'Avray to escape the Terror, but was sought out and summarily condemned to death "for having flattered the despots of Vienna and London."
During the Terror he was one of those deputies of the centre who supported Robespierre; but he was gained over by the members of the Mountain hostile to Robespierre, and his support, along with that of some other leaders of the Marais, made possible the 9th Thermidor.
He was reporter of the committee which drew up the constitution of the year III., and his report shows keen apprehension of a return of the Reign of Terror, and presents reactionary measures as precautions against the re-establishment of "tyranny and anarchy."
This was the month in which the Terror was organized under the superintendence of the Committees of Public Safety and General Security.
Tallien showed himself one of the most vigorous of the proconsuls sent over France to establish the Terror in the provinces; though with but few adherents, he soon awed the great city into quiet.
The Yahweh, at a time known only to Himself, shall appear with all His saints on Mount Olivet and destroy the heathen in battle, while the men of Jerusalem take refuge in their terror in the great cleft, that opens where Yahweh sets His foot.
For the republic had always sided with the empire and favoured Conradin, whose cruel end struck terror into the Ghibelline faction.
In 1688 he was elected doge, and in 1693 he took command of the Venetian forces against the Turks for the fourth time; the enemy which had been cruising in the archipelago withdrew at his approach, so great was the terror inspired by his name.
The remnant of Jacob springs up in fresh vigour, inspiring terror among the surrounding peoples, and there is no lack of chosen captains to lead them to victory against the Assyrian foe.
Yahweh appears to plead with His people for their sins, but the sinners are no longer a careless and oppressive aristocracy buoyed up by deceptive assurances of Yahweh's help, by prophecies of wine and strong drink; they are bowed down by a religion of terror, wearied with attempts to propitiate an angry God by countless offerings, and even by the sacrifice of the first-born.
It was built in the days when brigandage held the whole country in terror, and was strongly fortified and provided with artillery and garrison.
His powers of sarcasm were a cause of terror to his adversaries, and his presence in debate was much dreaded.
This piece was played after the fall of the Terror, but the fratricide of Timoleon became the text for insinuations to the effect that by his silence Joseph de Chenier had connived at the judicial murder of Andre, whom Joseph's enemies alluded to as Abel.
He was, nevertheless, suspected of moderate sentiments, and before the end of the Terror had become a marked man.
Arrested in the Isle of Bourbon under the Terror, he was set free by the revolution of Thermidor (July 1794).
These intrigues were known to the Spanish government and inspired it with terror.
During the Terror he was arrested, but was liberated after the 9th Thermidor.
Florence, in extreme terror, deposed the gonfalonier, and opened her gates to the princes of the house of Medici.
The mountain tribes are usually despised by their coast neighbours, but in the south of west New Guinea the coast people live in perpetual terror of their inland neighbours.
The terror inspired by the Peasant War led to a new alliance, the League of Dessau, formed by some of the leading rulers of central and northern Germany, to stamp out the accursed Lutheran sect."
He was appointed United States minister to France in 1792, and was the only representative of a foreign country who remained at his post throughout the Reign of Terror; but his ill-concealed attitude of hostility to the Revolu manor and also a large estate from his uncle in Monmouth county, East Jersey.
As a member of the committee he signed its decrees and was thus at least technically responsible for the acts of the Reign of Terror.
But his moderate principles brought suspicion on him, and during the Terror he had to go into hiding.
Fearing a possible renewal of the Terror, he became an active member of the plot for the overthrow of the Directory in November 1799 He was rewarded by the presidency of the legislative commission formed by Napoleon to draw up the new constitution; and as president of the legislative section of the council of state he examined and revised the draft of the civil code.
The reign of terror which followed the battle of the White Mountain was intended to remove all possibility of a fresh rising in the future.
Since there was no longer a Parliament, or any personal immunity, the military authorities established unlimited police rule, which seemed to be obsessed with terror of its own citizens; anyone who seemed to them suspect was subjected to internment in concentration camps.
Failing to find clerical duties at that time (the period of the Terror), he entered civil life, and served in various capacities, until on the appointment of Napoleon Bonaparte to the command of the French "Army of Italy" he became a commissary attached to that army.
Then he struck terror into the wild tribes on the eastern frontiers of the kingdom by a campaign which extended into the remotest parts of Media.
Meantime, Sulla having left Italy for the Mithradatic war, Cinna's sudden and violent revolution put the senate at the mercy of the popular leaders, and Marius greedily caught at the opportunity of a bloody vengeance, which became in fact a reign of terror in which senators and nobles were slaughtered wholesale.
He crossed the perilous defile of Dervenaki unopposed; and at the news of his approach most of the members of the Greek government assembled at Argos fled in panic terror.
But the fate of his predecessor had filled him with a lively terror of Kanaris and his fire-ships; he contented himself with a cruise round the coasts of Greece, and was happy Campaign to return to safety under the guns of the Dardanelles of 1823.
The news of this disaster, and of the fall of Pylos and Navarino that followed, struck terror into the Greek government; and in answer to popular clamour Kolokotrones was taken from prison and placed at the head of the army.
A Latin memoir of Tamerlane by Perondinus, printed in 1600, entitled Magni Tamerlanis scytharum imperatoris vita, describes Timur as tall and bearded, broad-chested and broadshouldered, well-built but lame, of a fierce countenance and with receding eyes, which express cruelty and strike terror into the lookers-on.
Though less superstitious than the Tahitians, the idolatry of the Sandwich Islanders was equally barbarous and sanguinary, as, in addition to the chief objects of worship included in the mythology of the other islands, the supernatural beings supposed to reside in the volcanoes and direct the action of subterranean fires rendered the gods objects of peculiar terror.
He left France during the Terror and on his return was arrested by the revolutionary authorities, but was liberated through the intervention of Fabre d'Eglantine and others.
Out to seaward were the two monitors "Erebus" and "Terror" for bombarding the batteries.
Schneider, who as public prosecutor to the revolutionary tribunal of the Lower Rhine had ruthlessly applied the Terror in Alsace.
For some time, and especially during the Reign of Terror (1793-1794), Pasquier remained in obscurity; but this did not save him from arrest in the year 1794.
By his unexpected appearance he sometimes inspires men with sudden terror - hence the expression "panic" fear.
If the worship of Siva, despite the purport of his chief symbol, seems on the whole less liable to produce these undesirable effects than that of the rival deity, it is doubt- less due partly to the real nature of that emblem being little realized by the common people, and partly to the somewhat repellent character of the "great god," more favourable to evoking feelings of awe and terror than a spirit of fervid devotion.
It consisted of a small committee of ministers, privy councillors and judges, which sat to deal with offences that seemed to lie outside the scope of the common law, or more frequently with the misdoings of men who were so powerful that the local courts could not be trusted to, execute justice upon them, such as great landowners, sheriffs and other royal officials, or turbulent individuals who were the terror of their native districts.
Those Wh!gs end principles, to which that party adhered which about this time became known as the Tory party, had been formed under the influence of the terror caused by militant Puritanism.
Before the end of the year the invasion was repulsed, and the ragged armies of the Revolution had overrun Savoy and the Austrian Netherlands, and were threatening the aristocratic Dutch republic Very few governments in Europe were so rooted in the affections of their people as to be able to look without terror on the challenge thus thrown out to them.
With a wild neigh of terror the animal fell bodily into the pit, drawing the buggy and its occupants after him.
The cab-horse was about to reply when suddenly he gave a start and a neigh of terror and stood trembling like a leaf.
And this is the Hungry Tiger, the terror of the jungle, who longs to devour fat babies but is prevented by his conscience from doing so.
They filled the land with terror.
I remained still and expectant; a chilling terror crept over me.
Suddenly my ecstasy gave place to terror; for my foot struck against a rock and the next instant there was a rush of water over my head.
But at that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard quite close at hand, and a voice of naive terror barely two steps from Prince Andrew shouted, Brothers!
The sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around him merged in Rostov's mind into a single feeling of terror and pity for himself.
He knew from experience the tormenting expectation of terror and death the cornet was suffering and knew that only time could help him.
Beside himself with terror Pierre jumped up and ran back to the battery, as to the only refuge from the horrors that surrounded him.
It was not Napoleon alone who had experienced that nightmare feeling of the mighty arm being stricken powerless, but all the generals and soldiers of his army whether they had taken part in the battle or not, after all their experience of previous battles--when after one tenth of such efforts the enemy had fled--experienced a similar feeling of terror before an enemy who, after losing HALF his men, stood as threateningly at the end as at the beginning of the battle.
He carried his resolution within himself in terror and haste, like something dreadful and alien to him, for, after the previous night's experience, he was afraid of losing it.
The bustle and terror of the Rostovs' last days in Moscow stifled the gloomy thoughts that oppressed Sonya.
Despite all the terror of what had happened during those last days and during the first days of their journey, this feeling that Providence was intervening in her personal affairs cheered Sonya.
The moment they laid hands on him he sprang aside in terror and clutched at Pierre.
It was the unexpected realization of the fact that he still valued life as presented to him in the form of his love for Natasha, and a last, though ultimately vanquished, attack of terror before the unknown.
He seized the door, making a final effort to hold it back--to lock it was no longer possible--but his efforts were weak and clumsy and the door, pushed from behind by that terror, opened and closed again.
However, some cats enjoy the upward climb, but experience terror during the descent.
A horrible reign of terror ensued, in the course of which the ex-tsaritsa Eudoxia was dragged from her monastery and publicly tried for alleged adultery, while all who had in any way befriended Alexius were impaled, broken on the wheel and otherwise lingeringly done to death.
After an unsuccessful embassy in Tuscany, he was imprisoned as a suspect during the Terror, but freed after the 9th Thermidor.
All the horrors of the reign of terror were based only on solicitude for public tranquillity.
He had never felt such a blinding combination of fury and terror as he did in those few moments before she ran.
Then suddenly, for reasons which cannot easily be explained, he inaugurated a reign of terror which lasted for twenty-four years and earned for him the epithet of "theTerrible."
The execution of Robespierre on the 28th of July had ended the Terror, and Babeuf - now self-styled "Gracchus" Babeuf - defended the men of Thermidor and attacked the fallen terrorists with his usual violence.
But he had no time to utter the decisive word which the expression of his face caused his mother to await with terror, and which would perhaps have forever remained a cruel memory to them both.
After spending some time as a Genoese galley-slave, he turned corsair and became the terror of the Mediterranean coasts.