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  • noun Plural form of fright.

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Examples

  • Some of the best and dearest of God's saints and servants, when they have seen storms rising, have been in frights, and apt to make the worst of things, and to disquiet themselves with melancholy apprehensions more than there was cause for.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • Max pronounced them "frights," because of their large hooked bills, and harsh discordant cries.

    The Island Home Richard Archer

  • Surely, you'll be indulging in enough creepy, crawly frights, so our HuffPost Green collection of this week's best animal photos will give you all the cute and cuddly critters you need to balance yourself out.

    Animal Photos Of The Week The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • This final full week of the 2010 campaign delivered its fair share of Halloween-worthy frights.

    Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup Arianna Huffington 2010

  • This supports the notion that people need to escape real life fears by entering fabricated worlds -- like the ones Kereszi captures -- in which the frights are completely safe.

    Photos: Artist Spotlight: Lisa Kereszi's "Haunted" The Huffington Post 2010

  • This final full week of the 2010 campaign delivered its fair share of Halloween-worthy frights.

    Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup Arianna Huffington 2010

  • The narration was not great, sounding kind of like an irritating fifth-grader who insists on reading aloud for a period longer than her audience has patience for, but it made me wonder if the stark frights of this book are best conveyed from the page directly into the reader's head, no batteries required.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Roger Sutton 2009

  • Surely, you'll be indulging in enough creepy, crawly frights, so our HuffPost Green collection of this week's best animal photos will give you all the cute and cuddly critters you need to balance yourself out.

    Animal Photos Of The Week The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The narration was not great, sounding kind of like an irritating fifth-grader who insists on reading aloud for a period longer than her audience has patience for, but it made me wonder if the stark frights of this book are best conveyed from the page directly into the reader's head, no batteries required.

    Futures trading for writers Roger Sutton 2009

  • Surely, you ll be indulging in enough creepy, crawly frights, so our HuffPost Green collection of this week

    Animal Photos Of The Week Travis Walter Donovan 2010

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