terror-striking

• “Some part of this, however, must be abated, because the chronicler is exalting the terror-striking enemy that he may still further exalt his own people, the”

  The Story of the Volsungs

• ““Every trooper should be at pains to keep his lance straight between the ears of his charger, if these weapons are to be distinct and terror-striking, and at the same time to appear numerous.””

  The Cavalry General

• “From that we are left to surmise with what tremendous audacity of countenance, with what terror-striking preparations of the outward man, an Eastern army is led to battle.”

  The Three Clerks

• “And if the raiders, cut off by the sea from their supports, ill-equipped as they will certainly be, and against odds, are so badly advised as to try terror-striking reprisals on the Belgian pattern, we irregulars will, of course, massacre every German straggler we can put a gun to.”

  New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index

• “It is a frightful terror-striking foe, that huge night-moth, which comes ever nearer, growing each moment bigger and blacker.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844

• “And last, they went into an open court where the galley models of old men-of-war were grouped; and a more curious sight the boy had never beheld; for these models had inconceivably powerful and terror-striking faces.”

  The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

• “It was at this point of the conversation that the first traces of that terror-striking expression began to flit across his features, and his eyebrows gathered themselves into a most terrifying bunch.”

  The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow

• “Stately and terror-striking they soared into the air.”

  Further Adventures of Nils

• “They could not imagine that the sensuality and corruption of the age required heroic and terror-striking means to rouse and to move the masses; and so the dissensions and troubles between Paul and the nascent”

  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03

• “He came to the heathens with the terror-striking proclamation,”

  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03

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