During Samhain, Celts built huge bonfires on hilltops to frighten away evil spirits.

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The only thing on which there is general agreement is that nothing should be done to frighten away depositors.

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According to an earlier survey by the CDC, guns are used to frighten away intruders who are breaking into homes about a half million times a year.

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This latest broadside can be judged or, in China's case, misjudged as an effort to frighten away voters from Chen Shui-bian, the candidate of the formally pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party.

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It would frighten them, so far away from me, so vulnerable to my fate.

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