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    1. The Dark Age and the Iron Age repeat themselves in one form or another, as do the Inquisition, the witch trials, and the Red Scare


    2. She'll scare h—hey!"


    3. Four tons and twenty feet doesn't scare me


    4. It was lucky that disease was not very contagious, but there was a scare thruout the city for awhile and it turned out quite a few had been infected


    5. He stood and revealed that he was big tall guy, but like I say, people don't usually scare me


    6. He told her about the big animals that gave him such a scare


    7. I’ll probably scare the hell out of the poor guy! Wish me luck!” She gave her a hug and was off again


    8. The cafe was closed and it was time to head back anyway, but before I did, I wanted to go a little further down to where I could just see a swamp of what looked like complete desolation; dried-up marsh and cracked puddles and decomposing vegetation like the ones that used to scare me as a child


    9. "shaNai, this is starting to scare me


    10. She didn’t want to scare the little egg

    11. "In the 40th century there was a big scare about population," Desa began


    12. I was so startled I jumped up and down, waving my arms, laughing and shouting, spitting fluff and feathers from my mouth but more to scare my demons than because I found it funny


    13. Then I heard its doubts, back and forth, back and forth, in the crannies and out again, but they were too late, they couldn't scare me now


    14. The main thing is to read something that will either completely take your mind off of cigarettes, or scare the crap out of you so you never smoke again


    15. "To scare us off," Kelvin said


    16. His tone reminds me forcibly of a teacher I had at school once … used to scare the daylights out of me


    17. ‘Have you found yourself a wife yet?’ she whispered, not wanting to scare the bird away


    18. ‘I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to scare it off


    19. Unless it was as Bentack said and they were trying to scare Jorma and Ava off


    20. Returning to the front room, she felt more at ease, the thought of staying in the house that night didn't even scare her

    21. Her Grandmother had said they were a blessing, and at times, they were, but it was beginning to scare her


    22. "I didn't mean to scare you,” he uttered breathless


    23. "My God Girl, does this house scare you that much?" His voice showed his concern bringing the girls back to their knees


    24. "My god Em, I didn't mean to scare you


    25. “That seemed to scare you?” she asked


    26. He was beginning to scare her, and he must have sensed it, for he turned and walked off into the first small room at the front of the house


    27. His family is very, very shy, you should be supportive with him, not trying to scare him


    28. "Why does this scare you?"


    29. " he pulled his hand away "It doesn't scare me


    30. It would only scare him off

    31. "Yeah right, with a scare that still shows


    32. "Death doesn't scare them at all," she bored into his eyes when she told him


    33. "Could be scare tactics


    34. At best he had been overreacting and, at worst, scare mongering


    35. "Well they scare me more Mr


    36. to attract the investors and not to scare them


    37. Nothing ever seemed to scare him, though he had less than two years on my scant twelve


    38. He had become something of an urban legend, one recounted by devious schoolchildren in efforts to scare one another


    39. “Bloody hell you didn’t half give me and most of the other lads a scare you have been shouting and bawling for ages I have been trying to wake you up for ten minutes fuck me it must have been some nightmare


    40. Only once, just before we arrived in Egypt did we have a scare from Herod"s men

    41. After you have gathered this information sling in your bombs to give them a scare and get the hell back here I don’t want any heroes out there just get the information and get back here in one piece and remember if you fail we will only have to send out another patrol so good luck


    42. “Are you alright now Rosie girl you gave me quite a scare then for a few moments?” Helen looked at me and Rosie replied


    43. “They come and go but since I have been back here with you I don’t get them as often sometimes they scare the life out of me but everyone gets them so please don’t worry darling


    44. “It’s because of Mabel you see Billy Boy she thought she was pregnant but it was only a scare


    45. building will have heard the noise, but it didn’t scare me at all


    46. Good thing I don’t scare easy


    47. stop, hide around a corner, and try to scare each other


    48. “Don’t be silly Billy Boy nobody believed these fools with their red tabs and braid they are bumbling fool who think they can scare people into doing what they want by shooting innocent men


    49. Don’t you love me enough to have a child with me? Is that it? Did it scare you too much? Would it force you into staying with me?”


    50. to, doubtless, prepare but not to overly scare














































    1. That scared me


    2. That scared me and that bothered me


    3. "Scared to go there," Ava told her


    4. “I’m scared,” Bob said sarcastically, and he took another swing at Johnny


    5. All Hermann knew is that Grandma breathed really loud and it scared him at night


    6. But when they all piled into the kitchen, even Millie and Sparky together got scared they wouldn't make it out of the kitchen alive


    7. As nervous as the computer made him, Scar scared him even more


    8. He was so scared and dumbfounded he even forgot to sweat for a while


    9. “I’ll show you what a real mission specialist does! A real mission specialist is not someone who’s too scared to even go out on a mission,” Vinnie said


    10. Other people’s thoughts scared me

    11. He couldn’t wait for the next day, but it scared him as well


    12. I’m scared that we’ll say yes ‘cos then it’s done with and we’re


    13. Ditton said he was scared shitless which was why he hadn’t come forward


    14. I was scared, choked, but I would die of fear before I offered up my child to scum like this


    15. He sneers at Ahmed and Ricci, standing in the tub scared shitless and noticeably naked


    16. had simply been too scared to admit that he felt the same for all his family


    17. I know I've said it before that I'm not easily intimidated, but this was different and God was I feeling scared


    18. Not scared for myself


    19. You scared her badly


    20. She can walk and move among us now; I am scared and I shout to her; then I say prayers like “Paternoster” in the hope of sending her away

    21. He was as scared of me as I was of him


    22. "I was scared to try it," Backmar said when he looked up


    23. He's scared to touch it


    24. ‘Yes, I suppose so … though Gran did write about cars – she was scared shitless the first time she saw one


    25. The truth of the matter is that after he said farewell to the woman whom he loved with all his heart, he had simply been too scared to admit that he felt the same for all his family


    26. Still she stood paralyzed to the spot, too scared even to tremble


    27. All the dryfeet's still too scared of your hell-spawn starship to come out of the water and I'm afraid we'll hear another scream and splash any second


    28. Alfred scared several camps of cowboys before he gave that up


    29. I have to say that she was horrified when she heard that you’d been attacked – she’s been seriously scared, Karalintze … not that I’d want to excuse her action or in any way minimise the awful attack you experienced, but she never intended you any harm


    30. happy, sad, angry, scared

    31. I was so scared Daniel, I just wanted to get out of there


    32. I was so scared, Wiesse, and there was all that dust and stuff …’ I said, my voice cracking as I remember how terrified I had been


    33. Alan had to admit he was already really scared


    34. He had survived the party, but mainly because so many other things had happened that day, the whole town had found out about his origins and Desa had scared him nearly to death with a song that made him believe she had been controlling his mind with RNAcid for generations


    35. SAMANTHA: Not at first, but when he climbed on top of me, I was scared


    36. ran scared of the whiplash, preferring the safety of distance,


    37. Jake let loose with a throaty roar that scared the hell out of everyone


    38. and the boy, one confused soul running scared


    39. 'Hey, what's to be scared of? If you crash, you die


    40. "You're not scared off by a ship like this?" the splicer asked

    41. Meanwhile Desa said, "If it does that, I think I'm scared of it


    42. I tried not to stare, but the old man looked scared, and fiddled with the leaves of his dinner


    43. I was becoming scared and desperate


    44. Her husband was not impressed when she eventually returned home minus the shopping trolley, without any money and too scared to make amends for her failings by popping down to the off-licence for him


    45. Maybe part of me was scared to leave, as many ill people depend on the system to bail them out of responsibility for their entire life


    46. “Wow! That was neat! You guys are great!” A dragon enthusiast had replaced the scared little boy of a few minutes ago; his face was all smiles now


    47. For a moment I am scared that I’ve somehow broken some taboo or other … but surely Berndt would have told me… a glance at my companion shows me that he is as taken aback as I am


    48. I was pelting along, at a loss at my reaction and scared


    49. “It led me right to a hatching ground; and I can tell you that I have never been so scared in all my life


    50. I was enchanted, far too scared to blink














































    1. "Look, Theo, I'm just afraid OK? This stuff scares the crap out of me


    2. "And that scares you doesn't it?" Ava told him, using her comfort with cloning as a weapon, even against a mortal


    3. Indeed, nothing scares me more than human wickedness


    4. You’ll likely have to do something that scares


    5. with a solid kick that scares the cat,


    6. ‘And that really scares you, I expect


    7. I feel as though I’m floating on a cloud somewhere in the vicinity of heaven – but despite that, there’s an air of unreality about all this which scares me


    8. ‘Anna, Treacle sometimes goes missing and that scares the daylights out of me me so I have some idea how you are feeling … and it’s not even as though Simon is here with you either


    9. "What scares me most", she says, "is that Bex might turn out like her father


    10. "What scares you Mom

    11. Jesus, that scares a guy


    12. “Now that scares me more than this stone block


    13. The thing that scares me most though, is the media


    14. It is that of an incompetent one, and one so blinded by his own anti Communist ideology that he failed to understand the enemy, believing the earlier Red Scares that had consumed America


    15. still it scares him to unknown distal cause of paranoia thinking that she


    16. Vaccination scares, claims that they cause autism or other diseases


    17. “This is the one that scares me,” said Fred Jackson excitedly


    18. Sometimes it almost scares me how much I want you, need you


    19. “He scares the hell out of me


    20. Not much scares him, you know

    21. “Sometimes your son scares me with what he comes up with,” Vera said, looking at Nick


    22. Exposure therapy involves confronting a person with the stimulus that scares them (heights, spiders, etc


    23. It actually scares my wife when I approach her and say, “I was


    24. The concept of them living a life in this society without the advantages that hypocrisy offers scares them as they are consumed by the cravings that money addictions have placed within their bodies and minds


    25. My standing up for truth with my words and actions scares people at their core


    26. That is a statement that scares people at their core


    27. “Well you should’ve, it scares me when you’re not


    28. It’s not whom he chooses that scares me, but if he chooses not to answer


    29. that scares me strait


    30. They'd have no choice but to stay out of your business and you wouldn't have to get too close to them because it scares you… for some reason

    31. I still don’t know what it is; but whatever it is, it scares me


    32. The thing that scares me about them contacting me is that they


    33. The reason that scares me


    34. That scares me, too


    35. a-toilet ass, scares the bejesus out of me


    36. Back then we were only kids but now, as adults, it scares me what he could do it he wanted


    37. Once or twice his thoughts have brushed against mine, and there’s a … a … darkness there I don’t understand, but it scares me so much I can’t even think about what it might mean


    38. And, over and beyond all of this, he remembers the way his mind itself sometimes scares him


    39. reaction and it scares you so you pull off the highway and take


    40. But, seriously, Sis, sometimes your mind scares the shit out of

    41. “and the one thing that scares me,” Capt


    42. Missteps and false scares


    43. And that scares me more than anything


    44. It’s true we should face up to what scares us, but there will be a time for that


    45. It’s true we should face up to what scares us, but there will be a time for that, and you will know when


    46. It scares me to think about how desperately I’ve wanted you all


    47. When you say it like that, it scares the shit out of me


    48. But it sure scares me,


    49. Sometimes there are health scares – but health is basically good


    50. Health is basically good, but there have been a few scares in recent years and perhaps surgery as well





































    1. Time! He’s probably scaring away the gnats around this garage, too


    2. Because of your bone-headed driving of that monstrosity scaring my whole crew into the water on a night like this


    3. After a few minutes, the bathroom door opened and a hand threw my shirt back in the room, scaring the shit out of me


    4. Maybe she was getting a bit more healed, maybe it was the delight Kulai had given her to make up for scaring off Jorma


    5. "Jim… you’re scaring me


    6. You have the capability of scaring her off if you want, but I don't think that would be fair


    7. ‘You’ll have to undergo dermal regeneration for a least thirty minutes, but even then there may be residual scaring


    8. They were chasing each other from branch to branch, plundering every ship and scaring every other pirate crossing their path


    9. “Will you ever stop scaring me?” I asked


    10. What I really meant was, would I ever stop scaring myself?

    11. It would sound, scaring him half way to hell, and the entire conception would be shattered


    12. I don’t want this goddamn little box scaring the shit out of me again, telling me you’re here with another urgent message, unless that message is that you have both of them with you! Have I made myself clear, Captain?” he shouted, shaking the intercom in his hand, and boring holes in the captain with his gaze


    13. The night’s nearness was still just beneath her skin; both luring and scaring


    14. Vanil set into gallop instantly and ran away from everything that was scaring the life out of her


    15. Sixty-five years later, in AD 135, they tried it again scaring the Roman Caesar badly with their temporary successes that had spread widely among other restive provinces


    16. My grandmother’s youngest son, still being raised by her, provided the most graphic examples of these apparitions, in the stories that he delighted in scaring us with, especially the gotcha ending to all of them


    17. “Is this scaring you, Tris?”


    18. “What the hell is it with you and scaring me like that? Come on!” Ash released her just to yell her


    19. But what if global warming is a big hoax? This is scaring the kids, Dr


    20. scaring the crap out of some Tokyo politicians

    21. He was scaring her immensely


    22. “What is it, your acting so rattled lately, what the fuck is going on with you?” he knew the answer in his mind, it was that Max was taking her away from him, scaring her off him, stopping her from loving him even though he wore this marsque of the man he called Marshal for her, it had all been for her


    23. Becky paused a little before responding, “I won’t say that your scaring me Harry but I need you to tell me everything


    24. I even tried scaring him a few times, bringing my fangs to his neck, but he would frustratingly reply that if his mortality was at the hands of his beloved master’s daughter, he would consider it his good fortune


    25. “You’re scaring me my love, call me please


    26. She kept scaring me about the risks of our relationship, knowing that I would get pregnant and die carrying a magical child in me


    27. the evenings scaring the pants off of Selma and the other girl by


    28. building was scaring Ashi


    29. this tremendous guilt about scaring them when we were growing


    30. with guns drawn, scaring the shit out her and her baby

    31. I’m not an advocate of scaring the hell out of people with hypothetical, self-serving claims in order to take their money or secure political gain by arguing that the balance of nature and the natural order of things (including human nature) should be, or can be meaningfully changed


    32. away from him, that he was scaring me


    33. such a virginal looking girl wouldn’t know what scaring the horses


    34. "So what! After kidnapping us, and scaring the crap outa us with that fight, you'd think Big D would take better care


    35. with their inability to crap on levelled surfaces; and rampant lizards scaring the living daylight


    36. literally scaring myself to death because of this lack of my faith


    37. grips with the fact that I was literally scaring myself to death because of this lack of my


    38. A steep wall was bordering on the construction protecting it from the marine winds that bounced against the building, turning into solitary rustles moved along the intricate corridors of the castle, scaring the apprentices, which were not familiar with that peculiar sound


    39. A curtained window was the silhouette of a witch hat scaring and scratching her warts


    40. He hid from the world, and spent most of his life scaring people in the forest and the countryside

    41. alarming investors, scaring them into selling their shares to the specialist who


    42. tipping off other traders and scaring them away


    43. All they can say is that this is the best place on earth to be, and I should stop making trouble and scaring the children


    44. Parents were standing up and telling us to sit down but none of the kids were listening until the Principal of our school stood in front of us with a flushed face and a stare meant to kill, scaring the bejesus out of us


    45. a fool of himself, not to mention scaring Ma half to death


    46. Renowned for scaring the shit out


    47. nights alone with the guitar, scaring his mother half to death


    48. Us three stood up and yelled n what not scaring them away temporarily but we knew we couldn"t win a battle with these fucks the numbers were just to bad


    49. I was able to see the joke of scaring the living daylights out of her and stopped the roll


    50. They made no attempt to eat the chickens that wandered loose on the streets, but they did make a game of scaring them














































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    Synonyms for "scare"

    panic attack scare panic affright fright frighten dash daunt frighten away frighten off pall scare away scare off alarm intimidate shock startle terrify terror

    "scare" definitions

    sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events


    a sudden attack of fear


    cause fear in


    cause to lose courage