affright
verb (used with object)
to frighten.
unaffrighted
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a word derived from
affright.
Example Sentences
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Indeed, she clapped her hands in the rush of strength she felt, both in her young muscles and her leaping spirit, and stood proudly listening to the echo dying away, unaffrighted.
From The White Riband Or, a Young Female's Folly by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
This hoary patriarch contrives To thrive in manner most bewild'rin', With close on half a dozen wives, And nearly half a hundred children; And views with unaffrighted eyes The burden of domestic ties.
From More Misrepresentative Men by Harry Graham
Who can thus lose all pledge and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable, must always engage the poet's and the man's regards.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Frederick William Roe
He tamed her, and she became his constant companion, unaffrighted even in the tumult of battle.
From A Short History of Spain by Mary Platt Parmele
To-day the woodpecker tapped, the bluejay cried in those depths unaffrighted; the singing of a mountain stream, the roar of a distant waterfall alone lifted a louder voice to the eternal whisper of the pines.
From Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
