Example Sentences

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But they tell me she is so austere since this rigid vow—so awful—she will petrify me with a look.

From The Widow's Vow A Farce, in Two Acts by Inchbald, Mrs.

"I fear your biographers will conceive themselves writing at the feet of a New World Sphinx, and that its frozen granite loneliness will petrify their image of you."

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

So, some rare waters in Derbyshire will petrify birds'-nests.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman