terror-striking

Some part of this, however, must be abated, because the chronicler is exalting the terror-striking enemy that he may still further exalt his own people, the

The Story of the Volsungs 2008

“Every trooper should be at pains to keep his lance straight between the ears of his charger, if these weapons are to be distinct and terror-striking, and at the same time to appear numerous.”

The Cavalry General 2007

From that we are left to surmise with what tremendous audacity of countenance, with what terror-striking preparations of the outward man, an Eastern army is led to battle.

The Three Clerks 2004

And if the raiders, cut off by the sea from their supports, ill-equipped as they will certainly be, and against odds, are so badly advised as to try terror-striking reprisals on the Belgian pattern, we irregulars will, of course, massacre every German straggler we can put a gun to.

New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various

It is a frightful terror-striking foe, that huge night-moth, which comes ever nearer, growing each moment bigger and blacker.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

And last, they went into an open court where the galley models of old men-of-war were grouped; and a more curious sight the boy had never beheld; for these models had inconceivably powerful and terror-striking faces.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

It was at this point of the conversation that the first traces of that terror-striking expression began to flit across his features, and his eyebrows gathered themselves into a most terrifying bunch.

The Fulfilment of a Dream of Pastor Hsi's The Story of the Work in Hwochow Mildred Cable 1915

Stately and terror-striking they soared into the air.

Further Adventures of Nils 1911

They could not imagine that the sensuality and corruption of the age required heroic and terror-striking means to rouse and to move the masses; and so the dissensions and troubles between Paul and the nascent

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906

He came to the heathens with the terror-striking proclamation,

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906