affright

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The vivid image of a theatre as a wooden O comes from the prologue to Henry V: "Can this Cock-Pit hold within this Woodden O, the very Caskes that did affright the Ayre at Agincourt?"

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2012

The sound of its bell, to paraphrase Poe, was "In the startled ear of night/ How it screamed out its affright!"

From Time Magazine Archive

The words on her bookmark are perhaps her most memorable: Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee.

From Time Magazine Archive

I like it not, and I have grave doubts; but I fear to affright her, and so I am silent of it.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Paced in the dark thy sounding margent white, And voiced my rapture in the boisterous night, Striking the lurking coastguard with affright.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 by Various