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Louise Church, 47, said she visits the area regularly from her home in Swansea, and has intervened several times when people have been scaring the ponies.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023

Both Agnew and Patterson already have been scaring opposing kick-coverage units for years.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2021

But he soon realized that the Virginia name might have been scaring off the very people his pitch was intended for.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

“Those guys have been scaring you some, I guess,” he remarked.

From The Black Box by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

There are a hundred other and much tougher questions, half of which have been scaring me to the very middle of my guts.

From Masters of Space by Berry, Robert Lee