I had met with several frights whilst I had been on this island, but none worse than this, none that so completely paralyzed me as to very nearly deprive me of the power of breathing.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
There is nothing else so frights a man.
"Lover or Friend"
Rosa Nouchette Carey
Sometimes it was of terrible frights that some of the littlest people had received by being wakened in the night and seeing a fierce face with long, sharp teeth grinning at them.
"Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories"
Thornton W. Burgess