With the coming of night in the mid-afternoon, the cries sounded closer as the pursuers drew in according to their custom; and the dogs grew excited and frightened, and were guilty of
panics that tangled the traces and further depressed the two men.
Now it was an optimistic opinion on the
panic, a funny story, a serious business talk, or a straight take-it-or-leave-it blow from the shoulder.
And there was no answer from the blind walls, from the hall outside, nor from all the world, and, his moment of
panic over, Cocky was his brave little self again.
One or two trains came in from Richmond, Putney, and Kingston, containing people who had gone out for a day's boating and found the locks closed and a feeling of
panic in the air.
I was seized by the consequent
panic, and went over the side in a surge of bodies.
Once he uttered a piercing call that reverberated through the jungle; but Tantor, in the
panic of terror, either failed to hear, or hearing, dared not pause to heed.
The flight that ensued turned to a stampede, and the stampede to a
panic.
Take, then, your tasselled aegis, and shake it furiously, so as to set the Achaean heroes in a
panic; take, moreover, brave Hector, O Far-Darter, into your own care, and rouse him to deeds of daring, till the Achaeans are sent flying back to their ships and to the Hellespont.
At the village gates, through which the blacks poured in
panic, Korak left them to the tender mercies of his allies and turned himself eagerly toward the hut in which Meriem had been a prisoner.
To be fair to those others, I think that the first wild
panic was subsiding even then; at least there was a lull, and even a reaction in the right direction on the part of the males in the second class and steerage.
I was seized with
panic. I gave up my small apartment, sold my few belongings, and resolved to start afresh.
He was in a
panic of superstitious fear, and I am afraid the
panic may spread.