I shrunk back, as if to avoid some petrifying influence that approached me.

Somehow her petrifying fear of heights did not occur in the cramped chute.

"At ease," he added, staring at me with a petrifying expression.

A petrifying well is a well which give objects a stone-like appearance.

He had a petrifying sense of urgency.

Here the hero meets his valkyrie in her petrifying appearance.

He gave it to his mother, who used its petrifying power to turn her abusive husband Gabe to stone.

It was a most petrifying experience.

I've always used to get up with the lark, till I came under the petrifying influence of your turgid intellect."

Never mind all that stuff about the adrenalin flowing; real petrifying fear and despair brings only an overwhelming weariness.

Serpentina - A supervillainess with a petrifying gaze.

Their lairs are little more than shallow caves or burrows in the ground, usually marked by victims of their petrifying gaze.

It is noted for having a 'petrifying spring' in a nineteenth-century gazetteer, and also a Wesleyan Chapel.

The Elsa, a little stream, which flows into the Arno about twenty miles below Florence, is said to possess a petrifying quality.

The account of a petrifying quality in the earth here, though some will have it to be in the water of a spring hard by, is very strange.

T'yog created a scroll that was supposed to protect him from the petrifying effect of gazing upon Ghatanothoa.

His petrifying stare does not work on gargoyles which he learns by bumping into Rochelle Goyle.

CHAPTER 60 Alix was spending her first petrifying day in Moscow.

For a petrifying moment, he feared that Samar had tracked him down, but he recognized immediately that this was not Samar.

The fountain of St. Allyre at Clermont is known for its petrifying water, caused by calcareous deposits.

Upon confronting her, she removes her hood, revealing herself to be a medusa and uses the medusas' petrifying gaze to turn him/her to stone.

Heads raised, they snuffed the air and listened, pondering in their slow reptilian way whether or not to open their eyes and cast their petrifying glare upon her.

Alienated from others and from himself, Charles L. develops a capacity for pitiless observation, which allows him to detect all of society's absurd and ignominious features in their petrifying horror.

With help from Grinella, Angie used the mirror to turn Rhea's powers against her enough for her to be sent back into the game and undo the effects of her petrifying gaze.

To make their chores to rob the Money bin easier, the Beagle Boys acquire an anti-inertia and anti-friction beam pistols from the foolish cabbage professor who invented the petrifying beam.

And all this at the age when one begins to petrify!

It merely petrifies things for those who go on living.

On land, trees would later leave behind wood to petrify.

You petrify me, she thought, with your hatred of life.

I stood still and began to petrify at the extremities.

It scared me personally, though, because the idea of going through something like that is petrifying.

After petrifying the enemy, he can then be broken apart if hit with enough force.

How long would it take to petrify wood in sands like these?

He froze, just the thought of being caught on the fire escape petrifying him.

We've gone exhaustively into your books - does that petrify you?

"They've got hit shows that are starting to petrify," the senior advertising executive said.

Called petrifying springs, they are quite common in limestone districts.

But what animal was this whose sound was petrifying them?

"Although there are times you petrify me with your boldness.

His back hurt as if it were slowly petrifying.

Earl said, "The sun's coming out fixing to petrify this country."

It was the Gorgon, whose direct gaze could petrify a person.

The Devil threw a lightning bolt which had the effect of petrifying her.

Athena also exhibits the ability to petrify in the same volume.

The changes that economists support are a hard sell to voters even in good times, and petrify many of them when unemployment is high.

It petrifies the governess and she gets into an acute state of anxiety.

Suddenly, a woman's roar of protest filled the hallway, petrifying her.

For a kid who has no other resources, the notion of being rejected by your family is petrifying."

"In my experience, people who live in isolation tend to petrify."

"The absolute quiet was almost petrifying to me," Stafford remembered.