"We have been in terror for 10 years.
People were in terror because there were dead on the streets".
("I was in terror," Lytton wrote to Leonard Woolf, "lest she would kiss me").
Lily, who shouted at the youths to desist, was in terror of her life.
The cattle are also zombies and the zombies are in terror lest the people of the village understand this.
I imagine how she must have been in terror and pain and suffering, devastated by what was going on.
But yeah, you have very upset times and every night you go to bed you're in terror.
Often they sound infantilized: they are in terror of her temper, her decisions, her growing reputation as a drunk and the rigors of her technique and repertory.
The plaintiffs, the complaint reads, were "in terror of catastrophic injury, death, drowning, having been placed in a situation where common sense said the vessel was sinking but the orders from the crew were to return to their cabins".
In Dadaab, when times are "good", lives are lived in limbo; when times are bad, they are lived in terror.
