In the sudden thud, hiss, and glare of the igniting trees, the
panic-stricken crowd seems to have swayed hesitatingly for some moments.
How short a time, and yet how long to ME--since I sank down in the darkness, here, on the floor--drenched to the skin, cramped in every limb, cold to the bones, a useless, helpless,
panic-stricken creature.
Though she could not recall her own words or his, she realized instinctively that the momentary conversation had brought them fearfully closer; and she was
panic-stricken and blissful at it.
Suddenly a low but distinct moaning sound issued from the recesses of the cave behind me, and, as it reached the ears of the Indians, they turned and fled in terror,
panic-stricken. So frantic were their efforts to escape from the unseen thing behind me that one of the braves was hurled headlong from the cliff to the rocks below.
Whether they were
panic-stricken, or whether he was too close on their heels for them to attempt to scramble up the bluff to the crevices, I do not know; but at any rate they dashed into the wide-mouthed cave wherein Lop-Ear and I had played the afternoon before.
Everyone was too
panic-stricken to think of a little girl no one was fond of.
He instantly put spurs to his steed, and scoured off followed by the
panic-stricken herd, their fright being increased by the yells of the savages in their rear.
Then he came into the business part of the city, where the streets were sewers of inky blackness, with horses sleeping and plunging, and women and children flying across in panic-stricken droves.
But they sat dumb, gazing back at him, panic-stricken; and a second later came another piercing scream.
They were
panic-stricken, and it took all the brutal authority of the Arabs to keep the Manyuema from rushing helter-skelter into the jungle--anywhere to escape from this terrible village.
As fire consumed the vehicle,
panic-stricken residents fled in different directions to avoid being hurt.
Summary: The
panic-stricken mother tried to wake her baby, but in vain.