Before his hand can retreat, the old man storms through his lines, smacking the board so hard that other pieces jump in fright.
Gentle Mary, from whom foolish children ran in fright, but who braided my hair, cared for me like I was her own and talked of the sea and the stars.
This time Master Cherry was struck dumb: his eyes bugged out of his head in fright, his mouth gaped, his tongue dangled down to his chin, like those grotesque faces carved on fountains.
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In her fright and confusion, she was not able to think what that was called.
But the part-time side who play in the Swiss Second Division had given Livi a fright in Liechtenstein and then showed their eagerness early on to grab the vital away goal at the City Stadium.
The Springboks have already been given a scare by Tonga (30-25) in their pool game, while Fiji gave them a fright in the quarter-final, scoring two quick tries midway through the second half before succumbing 37-20.
The reasons, however, are different: while in China my fright stemmed from high speeds and the creative maneuvers many drivers employed to beat traffic, in India the primary reason for my concern was the generally poor quality of the roads.
"It's extraordinary that we are giving the Tories such a fright in what is one of their safest seats, " he said.
If they are right (the market has discounted a rise to only about 6%), bond markets could be in for a fright.
This failed when the market in general took fright at the mortgages they were offering and stopped being willing to lend through those wholesale markets.
Researchers at Stanford University and MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory had activated light-sensitive neurons in the brain's hippocampus involved in the memory of fright.
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In practice, investors took fright at the prospect of the shares of thousands of companies (and not very good ones at that) being dumped on the market.
Visions of the devastating quake and tsunami that killed thousands in Japan in March 2011 fueled the fright, but the waves proved to be smaller and less powerful than feared.
Cross-shareholdings first became prominent during a fright about hostile takeovers in the 1960s, so there is a chance that scared managements may now seek to rebuild them.
Katia realized that although she was in no danger she was shuddering with fright as well as from the cold.
But the fright of the SARS outbreak in 2003 has left a lasting impression, and scientists and public-health officials now tend to see any putative disease threat through its lens.
Making two changes from the team which gave New Zealand a fright on Saturday, Scotland brought in the specialist spinners Majid Haq and Glenn Rogers.
"I knew it was going to be difficult and I had a big fright when they started to play in the third set and won the tie-break, " added Forget.
MRS. OBAMA: Yeah, I can see that. (Laughter.) No offense. (Laughter.) And as a young woman growing up in Harlem, Shemekia struggled -- stage fright.
Shares in Ahold, a Dutch supermarket operator with large American operations, recently tumbled after investors took fright at the company's attempt to gloss over an unflattering American accounting treatment in favour of the European one.
As they fled structured vehicles and the like, others who had gobbled up such debt also took fright and stuffed their money in funds instead.
Last month, too, moderate Republicans took fright when Trent Lott, their leader in the Senate, deferred to the religious right by calling homosexuality a sin.
Given the uncertainty, the wonder is not so much that investors have taken fright, but that they piled into Cendant in the first place.
The Italians, unsurprisingly under the combative John Kirwan, continue to improve inexorably, and gave favourites Ireland a real fright, who looked anything but convincing, especially in the pack.
There is, though, the danger of a domino effect, in which the financial collapse of some smaller countries leads to investors taking fright and fleeing even the larger, sounder developing economies.
But in these tight economic times, how can you have a great Halloween without causing fright night to you budget?
In thinly traded markets, bond prices can suddenly shoot up if only a few investors take fright and start selling.
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