The woman on the stairs

I, Janil de Constant, remember very well the moment when we first beheld the glorious city of Moscow, which we had marched twelve thousand leagues to take. It would have been the fourteenth day of September. The sun shone fiercely upon our splendid cavalcade, and even in the forests, which we now quitted very willingly, there were oases of light like golden lakes in a wonderland. It was half-past three o'clock when I myself reached the Mont du Salut, a hill from whose summit the traveller first looks down upon the city....

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frighten (someone) out of his or her wits - to frighten someone severely The little boy was frightened out of his wits by the big dog. frighten (someone) to death - to frighten someone severely I almost frightened the woman to death when I met her on the dark stairs. frighten the living daylights out of (someone) - to frighten someone very badly The horror movie frightened the living daylights out of the young girl. fritter (something) away - to waste something little by little The man frittered away all of the money that he had won in the contest.

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