He held her to him as a father would a frightened child.

The two of them, old and young, sat holding hands like frightened children in an empty house.

He did not stop until the only sound was the crying of frightened children.

Or was that simply the frightened child in him talking?

He was like a frightened child when men closed in on him.

A man who is in control, and inside there's a frightened child.

These people never intended to have to hold more than a few frightened children down here.

And then he decided, after one glance at the frightened child.

Instead, she makes the wind seem like a frightened and lost child.

I didn't do it,' she said in the voice of a frightened child.