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The faces of the "panicstricken" seem to look brighter, although everybody talks of "shrinkage" and ruin.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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'' At the end of February, we were a con-geries of disorderly panicstricken mobs and factions.
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The trails where the forester normally fared were overrun by panicstricken wildlife.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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Galileo upheld the idea of a heliocentric solar system when the anxious of a panicstricken church were screaming to keep the geocentric one.
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Through the smoke, people were running panicstricken, colliding with each other, tripping over stretchers, being arrested.
Life, the Universe, and Everything Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 1982
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"Also, he gets about as nervous and panicstricken as a bag of Portland cement."
Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963
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The cry ran along the deck like fire: there was one panicstricken shriek that followed, and the men had jumped for the boats, into which water and provision had been already thrown.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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Anglo-Indians who call Mr. Keir Hardie and Mr. Ramsay Macdonald traitors, and whose panicstricken denial of even a decent pretence of justice in the sedition trials is particularly unfortunate just now.
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various
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Still, as the trained mind does insist upon treating all unenlisted civilians as panicstricken imbeciles and upon frightening old ladies and influential people with these remote possibilities, and as it is likely that these alarms may even lead to the retention of troops in
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various
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Already this had begun to waver, and in another moment the panicstricken troopers were flying in wild confusion toward their reserve.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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