"Dismay and affright were visible in almost every person's countenance,"
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Or may we cram within this wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt?
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The old custom of shaking hands fell into such general disuse, that many shrank back with affright at even the offer of a hand.
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Can this cockpit hold / The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram / Within this wooden O the very casques / That did affright the air at Agincourt?
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The chorus declares : " But pardon, gentles all, / The flat unraised spirits that hath dar'd / on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object : can this cockpit hold / The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram / Within this wooden O the very casques / That did affright the air at Agincourt ?"
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For example, in the epitaph of John Smith, a highway thief and murderer, said, " thereto remain, a Terrour to affright All wicked Men that do in Sins delight . . . this is the Reason, and the Cause that they May Warning take . " The epitaph ends with the Latin phrase " Faelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cantum which means fortunate the man who learns caution from the perils of others ."
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On page 124, Bonaparte wrote, " He had in his rear the denies of the forest of Soignes, so that, if beaten, retreat was impossible ", and on page 158 " The enemy must have seen with affright how many difficulties the field of battle he had chosen was about to throw in the way of his retreat ", and again on page 207 " The position of Jomini, who pointed out that Wellington had good roads behind his centre and each wing which would have made a retreat through the forest safer than across an open field : Napoleon's cavalry would have been hampered by the forest in their attempts to turn any retreat into a rout.
Meaning
an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety Synonyms: panic, terror,
cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her" Synonyms: frighten, fright, scare,
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