Sentence examples for he took fright from inspiring English sources

A local constable went to assess the situation, but on being confronted with a huge bear he took fright and ran to fetch the menagerie owner.

It seene like a good idea to him back in March, when he was asked to do it, but when he faced his audience he took fright.

He backed an overdue scheme to place more emphasis on rehabilitating criminals and less on expensively locking them up—until the tabloids objected and he took fright.

Others may wonder if he took fright at the prospect of bumping into Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, of whose bona fides on the nuclear issue he remains mildly unpersuaded.

The girls at the perfume counter took fright at him, and he took fright at them, powdered, unreal, with strange lashes, and looking plucked and shaved like shop chickens.

Had he taken fright and decided to make a run for it?

While she is gone, he takes fright and runs away, with nothing.

When Gaddafi brings in a new law forcing people to swap jobs – teachers will become farmers, and farmers, teachers – he takes fright, returning with his wife and son to France sooner than planned.

But he then took fright at the idea; they were reconciled, and had a third child.

William, having encouraged the Austrians to adopt an uncompromising line, took fright when he found war impending but was not able to halt the implementation of the mobilization measures that he had allowed his generals to prepare.

Bellingham confirms that he is and adds, "His horse took fright, and threw him to the ground, so that his brains were dashed about the street".