At the conclusion of one such
panic, when he and Henry had got the dogs back in the traces, Bill said:
In spite of the
panic, more and more people were coming to Oakland right along.
No doubt, ran the report, the situation was of the strangest and gravest description, but the public was exhorted to avoid and discourage
panic. No doubt the Martians were strange and terrible in the extreme, but at the outside there could not be more than twenty of them against our millions.
A
panic in a crowd, which partakes of a sort of community of interest, is not so terrible as a
panic when one is by oneself; and such a
panic I now suffered.
Far out in the jungle Tantor, the elephant, his first
panic of fear allayed, stood with up-pricked ears and undulating trunk.
As when two wild beasts spring in the dead of night on a herd of cattle or a large flock of sheep when the herdsman is not there--even so were the Danaans struck helpless, for Apollo filled them with
panic and gave victory to Hector and the Trojans.
Men all in a
panic of fear, sent a round robin, asking to have double watch, as they fear to be alone.
There was
panic on every side, and dying people in all the bungalows.
The cows in headlong
panic, the bulls furious with rage, uttering deep roars, and occasionally turning with a desperate rush upon their pursuers.
In this way a small gang of lurkers will hurry off the cavalry of a large war party, for when once a drove of horses are seized with
panic, they become frantic, and nothing short of broken necks can stop them.
One soldier, in his fear, uttered the senseless cry, "Cut off!" that is so terrible in battle, and that word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of
panic.
He read only fear and
panic from the sounds, deduced that the village was fleeing to its mountain fastnesses, but did not know the cause of the flight.