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Sentences starting with fear

Fear not for your granddaughters, sisters, playfellows and betrothed: From the earliest ages a stringent law forbade the sacrifice of Egyptian blood; strangers were to perish, or those who worshipped other gods than those in Egypt. [10]
Fear lent him wings, but neglected to lift his feet. [9]
Fear and sorrow will now be changed into happiness and power, and all the glories of the world. [10]
Fear nothing: they will get not a word out of me. [10]
Fear thou not; thou'lt soon be well. [5]
Fear is expressed that men will deceive their keepers and the board which is to pass upon them, and obtain parole when they do not deserve it. [4]
Fear for you, terrible fear, will destroy my vigorous strength in the decisive hours, so the words must be uttered--" Maria had hitherto listened to her husband quietly; she knew what he desired. [10]
Fear etched an ineffaceable portrait of him on Mr. Hopper's mind, so that he knew him instantly when he saw him years afterward. [9]
Fear of the Indians, like a dog shivering with the cold, was a deadened pain on the border. [9]
Fear was in her eye, and the high courage to look: fear and courage. [9]

Sentences ending with fear

Lassiter was born without fear. [13]
She watched Lassiter with great, round, grave eyes, but showed no fear. [13]
She was wild with fear. [9]
I was weak with fear. [5]
He was filled with a fury which knows nothing of fear. [11]
I ask her why; she do not know, but she hug Babette close to her breast with a kind of fear. [11]
It was suddenly weak, but from suspense and excitement rather than from fear. [11]
He thought there was no fear. [6]
The youth's face was deathly pale, but it had no fear. [11]
A man cannot understand, but he can see, and he can fear. [11]

Short sentences using fear

I fear I was violent. [11]
We've no others to fear. [13]
I have nothing to fear. [11]
A great fear seized me. [9]
A sudden fear seized Honora. [9]
An intolerable fear possessed him. [11]
It--" "Speak it out--never fear. [5]
But I had no fear. [11]
But fear kept me still. [9]
You fear for her safety? [5]

Sentences containing fear two or more times

To escape fear, you will thrust your wife from the house; fear, you say, would undermine your strength. [10]
He was progressing, you see--the moral fear of shame had risen superior to the physical fear of harm. [5]
He is not without fear, but it is only fear for those who care for him, be they ever so few. [11]
I fear he was trying to see what I should say--I fear so. [11]
And that fear was the fear of death. [2]
But now there was fear in it, and fear gave it a vibrant sweetness, fear gave it a quality that made it mine--mine. [9]
The fear of the ambushed thing is the worst fear of this world--the sword or the rifle-barrel you cannot see and the poisoned wooden spear which the men of the jungle throw gives a man ten deaths, instead of one. [11]
And the fear of one's own wife is the worst fear in the world. [11]
Although he would not confess it to himself, he had been in fear of Jethro Bass all his life, and his fear had been greater than ever since the March day when Jethro had left Coniston. [9]
I regret this, not because of any fear we shall remain disagreed after you have read this letter, but because if you misunderstand I fear other good friends may also. [7]

More example sentences with the word fear in them

I would accept your offer at once, were it not that I fear there might be some impropriety in it, though I do not see that there would. [7]
We've all watched your affair with Venters in fear and trembling. [13]
She caught the young officer by his cuffs, and a look of solemnity and fear appeared on her flushed face. [2]
If you are young Matanesse Van Wibisma, you have nothing to fear from me. [10]
She liked the Young Doctor, as who did not who came in contact with him, except those who had fear of him, and who had an idea that he could read their minds as he read their bodies. [11]
I fear for you, I do indeed. [11]
In short, if you will set me down at Saville, I am willing to take my chances of reaching the Canadian Pacific from that point without fear of detection. [9]
I fear for you Vastly & I beg you not Riske y'r Life Foolishly & this for the Sake of one who subscribes herself y'r Old Playmate & Well-Wisher Dolly. [9]
If you hope, you transform a pleasant garden into the Elysian fields; if you fear anything you behold in a burning roof the conflagration of a world. [10]
Where I am you need have no fear that harm will befall them. [10]
Again you say, you much fear that that Elysium of which you have dreamed so much is never to be realized. [7]
And this, if you like, is practical,--so practical that the men like you, who have gained unexampled privilege, fear it more and more. [9]
Then defend yourself, you hideous toad, or I will tread you down, if my foot does not fear to be soiled with your poison. [10]
Should she, as you fear, be destined to an early grave, it is indeed a great consolation to know that she is so well prepared to meet it. [7]
I fear that you could not put it in money. [4]
And I trust you can say, my lad, that you have made the best of your advantages, though I fear you are of a wild nature, as your father was before you. [9]
Should they meet you anywhere, kisses in abundance in fine, wherever you move there is nothing but kisses"--a custom, says this reformer, who has not the fear of Stubbes before his eyes, "never to be sufficiently commended. [4]
Mentally, I fear, you also are too lonely and too little occupied. [14]
But fear gives you a watchful eye and keen, and I read the true name through the scratches, and fled like a deer. [5]
A few years yonder in the desert--power, glory, wealth won for Egypt, the strength of thine arms known, the piety of thy spirit proven, thy name upon every tongue--on thy return, who then should fear for Egypt! [11]
You fear and yet long to cross that line, and know that sooner or later it must be crossed and you will have to find out what is there, just as you will inevitably have to learn what lies the other side of death. [2]
He was not yet at the head of the locomotive works, he hastened to add, for fear that Cynthia might think that Mr. [9]
A gentleman says yes to a great many things without stopping to think: a shabby fellow is known by his caution in answering questions, for fear of, compromising his pocket or himself. [6]
Were you to write Ewing I fear the President would never hear of your letter. [7]
His looks, indeed, would have scared a timid person into a fit; but I resolved I would die rather than show the fear with which he inspired me. [9]
I fear it would be only self-delusion to fancy her better. [14]
For fear of worrying you I did not write you from Savannah how they laughed at us for starting at that season of the year. [9]
Don't be so worried about me, dear; I think there is nothing to fear, yet. [5]
But the next words: "Do not fear," checked her hasty impulse--she smoothed out the papyrus and read on with growing excitement: "Do not fear that I shall address you as a lover--as the man for whom there is but one woman on earth. [10]
In low, kind words she spoke of his coming and the renewal of her hopes, coupled with fear also that he might not fit in with his new life, and--she could say it now--do something unbearable. [11]
Gentlemen, do you wonder if this woman, thus pursued, lost her reason, was beside herself with fear, and that her wrongs preyed upon her mind until she was no longer responsible for her acts? [5]
And when a woman is all that's good, to a man, it can be done without fear or trembling. [11]
It was not without great fear and trepidation that little Nell slipped off her shoes and gliding through the store-room of old curiosities, where Mr Brass--the ugliest piece of goods in all the stock--lay sleeping on a mattress, passed into her own little chamber. [12]
For, being absolutely without fear, he did what he listed and went where he listed. [11]
To study nature without fear is possible, but without reproach, impossible. [6]
He had quarrelled with North, lost his place on the Admiralty, and presently the King had made him a Lord of the Treasury, tho' more out of fear than love. [9]
He was shaken with fear, for he saw the old man's design. [11]
The widow, kneeling with clasped hands, never took her eyes off the face of the youth, nor moved for fear of disturbing the deacon who, as she knew, was praying--praying for the salvation of the heathen soul snatched away before it could repent. [10]
He was obsessed with anxiety, for he had a dark fear that some ill had happened to the two. [11]
I drew near with a kind of fear, but yet I came to the door and looked in. [11]
They are born with a fear of not being busy; and if they are intelligent and in circumstances of leisure, they have such a sense of their responsibility that they hasten to allot all their time into portions, and leave no hour unprovided for. [4]
They did not wish to admit foreign troops within the walls, for during the first siege they had proved far more troublesome than useful, and there was little reason to fear that a city guarded by water, walls and trees would be taken by storm. [10]
As to my wisdom in conducting affairs so as to tend to the preservation of the Union, I fear too great confidence may have been placed in me. [7]
But see, the wind blows fair, and in my heart I have no fear of the end. [11]
I fear it will now be difficult to arrange, as it is so near the marriage-day. [14]
I fear chance will not be so propitious as to bring you to town while I am there; otherwise, how glad I should be if you would call. [14]
I fear I will never be the great lawyer --but the striver, yes, always. [9]
I fear he will have the laugh on us, for ours is not ready. [11]
I fear she will go soon," and he sighed again. [9]
I fear you will be shocked when you see Anne; but be on your guard, dear E----, not to express your feelings; indeed, I can trust both your self-possession and your kindness. [14]
He had a wholesome respect, not to say fear, of her; for when all else had failed, it was she who had arranged his escape from Spain, and who almost saved Carvillho Gonzales from being shot. [11]
He has a wholesome fear of the Baas. [11]
They had a wholesome fear of him in more senses than one, because, during the past few years, while Wallstein's health was bad, Byng's position had become more powerful financially, and he could ruin any one of them, if he chose. [11]
There are those who profess to fear that our government is becoming a mere irresponsible tyranny. [6]
If his mistress, who had left him full of anxiety from the fear that her departure would deeply agitate the blind man, should learn how indifferently he had received it! [10]
After the attack--of which she saw little, because, overpowered by fear and horror, she closed her eyes--she had driven home with her lover, where the leech had bandaged his injuries, and Berenike had quickly and carefully transformed her own sleeping chamber into a sick-room. [10]
It is that which I fear with our Zoe. [11]
Kathleen, that name which had haunted her--ah, whoever Kathleen was, or whatever Kathleen had to do with him or his life, she had no reason to fear Kathleen now. [11]
She said that when she told those people I was The Boss, it hit them where they lived: "smote them sore with fear and dread" was her word; and then they were ready to put up with anything she might require. [5]
He knew that what the old quack said was true--the West might shake with scandal concerning a few who, no doubt, in remorse and secret fear, had more than paid the penalty of their offences. [11]
I don't know what he fears, but he does fear you. [11]
The more ignorant were in fear of a cataclysm, the others taking it for an omen. [9]
The Belloc people were delighted, but they lived in daily fear of a strike in their own yards, for agitators were busy amongst their workmen. [11]
You know me well, fear is unknown to me--but I feel great anxiety. [10]
The thing starts well everywhere--too well, I almost fear, to last. [7]
I understand as well Dr. Latham's fear "that many men of the best abilities and good education will be deterred from prosecuting physic as a profession, in consequence of the necessity indiscriminately laid upon all for impossible attainments. [3]
Pierre felt particularly well disposed toward them all, but was now instinctively on his guard for fear of binding himself in any way. [2]
Yet I fear we shall lose the chief, too, if justice overtakes his people. [10]
We fear that we must trust to the chapter of accidents. [6]
For at last we have chosen a man who is strong enough, --who does not fear your fire-eaters,--whose electors depend on Northern votes alone. [9]
I fear, if we could get, we could not safely take more than one such man--that is, not more than one who opposed us in the election--the danger being to lose the confidence of our own friends. [7]
We fear it, we believe it, I may say,--but we do not know it. [7]
And through the watches of that sleepless night Jane Withersteen, in fear and sorrow and doubt, came finally to believe that if she must throw herself into Lassiter's arms to make him abide by "Thou shalt not kill! [13]
Weak as he was, there was every reason to fear the issue of this return of his threatening symptoms. [6]
Scipio's patrician blood was wont to rise in the presence of those whom he deemed outside the pale of good society, and I fear he ushered Mr. Fairbrother to the street with little of that superior manner he used to the first families. [9]
This time it was the presence or absence of a single letter which led us to fear that an important package destined to America had miscarried. [6]
Barry Whalen, however, was possessed of a kind of fear, and presently his face became troubled. [11]
True, my character was not yet steeled sufficiently to resist every temptation, but I no longer need fear the danger of crossing the barrier which Froebel set for men "worthy" in his sense. [10]
The little princess was not unwell, but had such an overpowering fear of the prince that, hearing he was in a bad humor, she had decided not to appear. [2]
For him there was no outside world; no past, no Kathleen, no Billy; no suspicion, or infidelity, or unfaith; no fear of disaster; no terrors of the future. [11]
A great fear was in Ned's heart, but he went. [9]
But so modest was he that he would not let it be known that he was in the station, for fear of interrupting the pleasure. [9]
The little river was full now, and ice had formed on it, with small openings here and there, where the dark water, hurrying along as if in fear of arrest, had a more chilling aspect than the icy cover. [4]
On what, then, was Count Rostopchin's fear for the tranquillity of Moscow based in 1812? [2]
He thought she was anxious, as on a former occasion, lest his election to the office of Eletto might prove his ruin, so he drew her towards him, exclaiming "Have no fear, Bonita. [10]
This pure mind was an awful touchstone of conduct, and there was a fear that Evelyn's ignorance of life would prevent her from making the proper allowances. [4]
I swear I was afraid to pray, for fear I should laugh. [5]
Besides, the blustering war of tongues had reached a merry close, and loud laughter blended with the shouts of fear and warning; for the surging throng had swept with unexpected speed towards the fountain and plunged Philostratus into the basin. [10]
Once within its walls, and confession made to the priest and absolution obtained, the wretch with a price upon his head could go forth without fear and without danger--he was tabu, and to harm him was death. [5]
With fear she walks in the sun, For Raoul is ninety year, And she not twenty-one. [11]
Thou shalt now walk in a new path--perhaps thy way leads through darkness; but fear not, the stars foretell happiness. [5]
Thou shalt now walk in a new path --perhaps thy way leads through darkness; but fear not, the stars foretell happiness. [5]
But I have waited without fear for the end. [11]
With birds the voice serves to express various emotions, such as distress, fear, anger, triumph, or mere happiness. [1]
I fear your visit will not be as long as I could wish, Mr. Ritchie," he added, turning to me, "if Mr. Wharton correctly states your business. [9]
The churches know very well, he maintains, that the fear of everlasting punishment more than any or all other motives is the source of their power and the support of their organizations. [6]
But Wrangle, as Venters led him, snorted defiance or disgust rather than fear, and, like a hobbled horse on the jump, lifted his ponderous iron-shod fore hoofs and crashed down over the first rough step. [13]
She continues to vary; is sometimes worse, and sometimes better, as the weather changes; but, on the whole, I fear she loses strength. [14]
The uneasiness, the vague fear of the future, wore away, and she slept peacefully. [9]
Music arouses in us various emotions, but not the more terrible ones of horror, fear, rage, etc. [1]

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