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  • German soldiers, terror-shaken by the flash of light in their eyes, and black faces above them, and bayonets already red with blood.

    Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

  • Contemptuously he shook himself free of her grasp, turned and stalked majestically out, wearing his anger like a royal mantle, and leaving behind him two terror-shaken beings, who felt as if they had looked over the very edge of death.

    The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Uncomprehending, but terror-shaken at the sudden outburst which filled

    The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896

  • The next instant, as though at a signal, a hundred citizens, each with a white flag in both hands, ran from cover, waving their banners, and gasping in weak and terror-shaken tones, "Vivan los

    Notes of a War Correspondent Richard Harding Davis 1890

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