be rigid with fear

These things make great tales afterwards, but I've often been rigid with fear as they happened.

I am rigid with fear and more than a little relieved to finally disembark 15 minutes later.

He was panting, and his face was rigid with fear.

She was rigid with fear and, he thought, humiliation.

He was rigid with fear, but he had not curled into a ball.

The two men were rigid with fear now.

The guards on the other side were rigid with fear, because they thought they had seen a ghost.

Ivan was rigid with fear on top of indignation. '

Their faces were rigid with fear and surprise.

When it fell away again his eyes were screwed tightly shut and his face was rigid with fear.

His body was rigid with fear; so much so that he couldnt even get out of bed and snap on the light.

Peter was rigid with fear and guilt, but Ari was without fear.

Her pallid features were rigid with fear and her breathing quickened.

She was rigid with fear and he sensed in her mind the frantic thought that this was not the way to kill Arrud.

I was rigid with fear.

Well, do I pass for an EnglanderV The lieutenant's face was strained, and he was rigid with fear. '

Von Staube was still in a faint, and von Gault was rigid with fear, and gasping for knocked out wind.

The spirits gathered up the ornaments of her dressing table and hurled them at her; the King stood beside her, striving to protect her, and Khayman was rigid with fear.

But, I also knew they would be scrutinising our reactions and making judgments based upon them, so I tried to send out the right signals and hoped they wouldn't be able to tell I was rigid with fear.