The surprise petrified her an instant: she uttered an inarticulate exclamation, and stood fixed.
Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the limbs of infancy; it lay with the neatliest finished border on every sloping roof, making the dark-red gables stand out with a new depth of colour; it weighed heavily on the laurels and fir-trees, till it fell from them with a shuddering sound; it clothed the rough turnip-field with whiteness, and made the sheep look like dark blotches; the gates were all blocked up with the sloping drifts, and here and there a disregarded four-
Oh, he had been happy during these years, because it was not in him to be unhappy; besides, how many interests life had had to offer him, how many friends, how much success, how many women only too willing to help him to blot out the thought of the altered, petrified, pitiful little wife at home who wouldn't spend his money, who was appalled by his books, who drifted away and away from him, and always if he tried to have it out with her asked him with patient obstinacy what he thought the things
The old lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering over her glasses; Tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter.
Fang 3 was petrified.
, When Buffett attended Columbia Business School, he was "petrified" to speak in public.
Petrified.
In fact, you're petrified of failure.
" The Fosters sat petrified for two minutes; petrified and cold.
Aleck--the--well, where you put up that plated article and play it for solid, you know, without intending anything improper, but just out of trade habit, ancient policy, petrified custom, loyalty to--to--hang it, I can't find the right words, but YOU know what I mean, Aleck, and that there isn't any harm in it.
It had the appearance of a chapel for the dead, with petrified organs and silent pipes.
