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Sentences starting with fears

Fears for my own safety alone kept me from telling you and Mr. Swain. [9]

Sentences ending with fears

Sad to tell, those first letters from Herdegen, all dipped in sunshine, were followed by others which could but fill us with fears. [10]
Ah, have I then seen fifty years, With all their joys and hopes and fears! [11]
Whatever I am the world can know, for I deceive no one, and I have no fears. [11]
What more natural than, with her cleverness, she had hit upon this means of terminating the author's troubles by working upon my fears? [9]
But he had still the strength to stand, and for him Venters had no fears. [13]
I had not said even a word in allusion to what I was doing in the evening hours, and the three volumes of my large manuscript were received by him in a way that warranted the worst fears. [10]
And his mind recalled, that Sunday of rain in New York which had been the turning-point in his life, when he had listened to the preacher, when he had walked the streets unmindful of the wet, led on by visions, racked by fears. [9]
He did not raise his hat until he stood directly in front of her, and while mopping his broad, clamp brow and plump cheeks with his handkerchief, she read in his features the confirmation of her worst fears. [10]
The afternoon wore on, they returned to the garden for tea, and a peaceful stillness continued to reign about them, the very sky smiling placidly at her fears. [9]
Yet he had not allowed himself to run to waste in the long time since he was left alone to his trials and fears. [6]

Short sentences using fears

Please have no fears. [7]
And I had fears. [4]
Her fears were being realized. [10]
Have no fears. [5]
She fears him. [11]

Sentences containing fears two or more times

Quiet for some minutes, and that was grateful to my spirit, for then my fears began to go down; and fears are worse than pains--oh, much worse. [5]
If he fears, in the unfortunate case of my election, that my going to Washington will enable me to advocate sentiments contrary to those which I expressed when you voted for and elected me, I assure him that his fears are wholly needless and groundless. [7]
Such were his hopes and fears concerning her, and they were mingled inextricably with other hopes and fears which had to do with the great venture of his life. [9]

More example sentences with the word fears in them

Instead of the yearning for John, of which Wolf had spoken and she, blind fool, believed, he thought of him with petty fears of the claims by which he might injure his favoured brother. [10]
In anguish Jane Withersteen turned speechlessly to Lassiter, and, confirming her fears, she saw him gray-faced, aged all in a moment, stricken as if by a mortal blow. [13]
With strange hopes, with trembling fears, with mingled belief and doubt, wherever I have found myself I have sought with longing yet half-averted eyes for the "elect lady," as I have learned to call her, who was to lift the curse from my ruined life. [6]
He fears he will die of joy, before he gets among them. [12]
In a little while familiarity modified their fears and they gave the place a critical and interested examination, rather admiring their own boldness, and wondering at it, too. [5]
Like Balancing Rock, which waited darkly over the steep gorge, ready to close forever the outlet to Deception Pass, that nameless thing, as certain yet intangible as fate, must fall and close forever all doubts and fears of the future. [13]
The statues, of which there were many, bore strange symbols, the mosaic flooring was covered with images intended to excite the fancy and the fears of the beholder. [10]
I don't know what he fears, but he does fear you. [11]
Very grave fears were for a time entertained of my recovery, but happily the malady is gone, though leaving me very, very weak. [5]
We know pretty well how much of sincerity there is in the fears so clamorously expressed, and how far they are found in company with uncompromising hostility to the armed enemies of the nation. [6]
So the next weeks passed in a constant alternation of oppressive fears and aspiring hopes, the nights in torturing terrors. [10]
Perhaps, like the wayfarer, my fears were the sharper for the memory of the beauty of the morning on that same mountain, when, filled with vigour, I had gazed on it from the plain below and beheld the sun breaking through the mists.... [9]
This was the way in which it happened that she mingled her fears in such a strange manner with their doctrines. [6]
Even then sleep visited us not, and that which had been doing below was as great a distress to me as my fears for my lover. [10]
But these fears vanished before a well-trimmed lamp and the familiar aspect of her own room. [12]
The old woman told the whole story of Elsie, of her birth, of her peculiarities of person and disposition, of the passionate fears and hopes with which her father had watched the course of her development. [6]
She looked forward to this with such firm hope as filled me with fears, when I minded me of my brother's letters, in which he never had aught to tell of but vain pleasures and pastimes. [10]
Then I returned to my mine, fortifying myself against possible disappointment, but my fears were groundless--the shining scales were still there. [5]
Her last speech to him had reached his fears, perhaps; it could not reach his heart, for he had none. [5]
We are facing three fears now: the fate of those we left behind; Lepage's fate; and the going back. [11]
And yet I thought it was better to run that risk, more manly, more sensible, than to give way to the fears which made my flesh tremble as did Sir Cloudesley Shovel's. [6]
One fears that they may come down in the deep night, and stand at the bedside,--those narrow, canopied beds there in the distance, like the marble couches in the cathedral. [4]
Every possible motive, then,--his interest, his jealousy, his longing for revenge, and now his fears for his own safety,--urged him to regard the happening of a certain casualty as a matter of simple necessity. [6]
We will take the road that promises to have that end, and we would not turn out of it, if it were a hundred times worse than our fears lead us to expect. [12]
She had told the Pernharts what were the fears which had brought her into the town, so the chamber was presently cleared, and the master called away Mistress Giovanna after that my aunt had expressed her admiration of her rare charms. [10]
Till late in the night the principal citizens were at work arranging the morrow's campaign, and when they went to bed they had no fears for the result. [5]
Not only are the fears of mankind the whip to scourge and the bridle to restrain them, but they are the basis of an almost incalculable material interest. [6]
Mr. Ruskin is the bull that stands upon the track and threatens with annihilation the on-coming locomotive; and I think that any spectator who sees his menacing attitude and hears his roaring cannot but have fears for the locomotive. [4]
You want one that you can trust; you want no coward, but one who fears you not at your wildest. [11]
O aching days that passed Filled with strange fears, each wilder than the last: The soldier's lance,--the fierce centurion's sword, The crushing wheels that whirl some Roman lord, The midnight crypt that suck's the captive's breath, The blistering sun on Hinnom's vale of death! [6]
I told myself that if I were not in a state bordering on a nervous breakdown, I should laugh at such morbid fears, I steadied myself sufficiently to dictate the extract from my speech that was to be published. [9]
She looked graver than the day before, while heavier shadows under her eyes and the deep flush on her cheeks reminded Wilhelm of Belotti's fears for her health. [10]
But he had talked cautiously, feeling his way for sympathy, looking out for those indications of tact and judgment which would warrant him in some partial communication, at least, of the origin of his doubts and fears, and never finding them. [6]
Now, as the sun was about to set, the latter gave herself up to a wild tumult of sweet memories, anxious fears, and yearning expectation. [10]
We canvassed the subject awhile and then concluded it was a ruse, and that the Indians had some better reason for leaving in a hurry than fears of a flood in such an exceedingly dry time. [5]
All her old sorrows had come back upon her, augmented by new fears and doubts; by day they were ever present to her mind; by night they hovered round her pillow, and haunted her in dreams. [12]
It must be something portentous and terrible; of that there could be no doubt; and ere long Paula's fears were justified. [10]
I have had some fears lest her zeal might run away with her discretion. [6]
Close by his side was the prefect Macrinus, who feared lest he should be attacked by a fresh fit; and Melissa shared his fears, as Caracalla cried to Apollonaris in an angry voice, "Scoundrel that you are, you shall repent of this! [10]
The doctor fears she will not have strength enough to rally from it. [5]
By the time she went into the house again her fears and depression had vanished; revived energy possessed her soul, and the little eavesdropper and tale-bearer had become in this short hour a purposeful and terrible woman, ready for any crime. [10]
During the night she had certainly been seized with great fears, but, as she now thought, without any cause. [10]
She fears she shall now, in her dreary solitude, become a 'stern, harsh, selfish woman. [14]
Then followed a series of arraignments of the strike leaders calculated to stir the wildest prejudices and fears of the citizens of Hampton. [9]
If her refusal roused his ire--if her father's prophecy and Philostratus's fears must be verified, that his rage would involve many others besides herself in ruin, then--But here her thought broke off with a shudder. [10]
I could not publicly correct it before the play appeared in New York, because that would look as if I had really said that thing and then was moved by fears for my pocket and my reputation to take it back. [5]
With such a prize in prospect we must no more fear a little humiliation than a man who is learning to ride fears a fall from his horse. [10]
Only a few persons, however, perceived this; for, though joyous anticipation or anxious fears urged many thither, who would venture upon the quay on such a tempestuous night? [10]
Your spring is passed in anxious doubts and fears, which are usually realized; and so a great moral discipline is worked out for you. [4]
Whoever much fears or much hopes for such an event will be alike disappointed. [7]
If Philip were only here to resolve these fears, these perplexities, to quiet the storm in her! [11]
You may, at once, dismiss all fears on that subject. [7]
Nothing has succeeded on which I had counted, and on the contrary many things have justified my fears that they would fail. [10]
The great halls of tie palace were thronged with nobles, who welcomed Conrad bravely; and so bright and happy did all things seem, that he felt his fears and sorrows passing away and giving place to a comforting contentment. [5]
Reasoning herself out of these fears, or losing sight of them for a little while, there came the anxiety to which the adventures of the night gave rise. [12]
The great halls of the palace were thronged with nobles, who welcomed Conrad bravely; and so bright and happy did all things seem, that he felt his fears and sorrows passing away and giving place to a comforting contentment. [5]
Have no fears of the mineral resources of Humboldt county. [5]
And the fears of the jovial party were only too well founded, for a tall, lean Egyptian suddenly stood among the Greeks as if he had sprung from the earth. [10]
Perhaps the greatest of my fears was that my uncle would deny him access to Mr. Carvel when he returned from the North. [9]
He had heard of her return, and had walked over to the tannery house, full of fears, the remembrance of those expressions of simple faith in Jethro coming back to his mind. [9]
This fact is not more surprising than that the fears of many animals should be directed against special enemies. [1]
But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it; and I have given the evidence to the best of my ability. [1]
No loving entreaties, no fears of Mrs. Merrill or her daughters, were of any avail. [9]
During the silent night her worst fears became certainty. [10]
The woman crept near and looked on, eagerly, lovingly, but timorously,--like one who fears a repulse; indeed, she tried furtively to touch the man's forehead, and jumped back, the picture of fright, when I turned unconsciously toward her. [5]
As I, on my ride home through the wood, turned over in my mind who might be the wise and trusty friend to whom we could confide our case and our fears, if Kubbeling should leave us in the lurch, verily I found no reply. [10]
I had forgotten my fears and gloomy forebodings by the time I climbed into bed in my darkened chamber. [10]
At this time most of my hours were spent by it in good weather, for at last my mother came to trust me alone there, having found her alert fears of little use. [11]
The punishment he most fears is being compelled to relinquish his criminal career. [4]
On this autumn morning, under this grey sky, from which sank a damp, light fog, with these hopes and fears in his heart, he beheld in both the present and future naught save shadows. [10]
He was no more than an actor, who played the part of Timon not amiss, and who made use of his public to work upon their fears and enjoy the sight of their anguish. [10]
It took me months to assure myself that those fears were groundless, but I did assure myself at last by experimenting diligently through my agent. [5]
Thus, in the midst of all this mirthful fellowship, there was nought to hinder my fears and hopes from taking their way. [10]
Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. [2]
And now we marched again; Chalons surrendered to us; and there by Chalons in a talk, Joan, being asked if she had no fears for the future, said yes, one--treachery. [5]
Truly there were many matters besides her every-day duties, and her errands within and without the house to beguile her of her fears for her lost lover. [10]
There had been many discussions and preparations for this ball in the Rostov family, many fears that the invitation would not arrive, that the dresses would not be ready, or that something would not be arranged as it should be. [2]
This may seem madness, selfish and small; but after-events went far to justify my fears and imaginings, for behind there was a love, an aching, absorbing solicitude. [11]
For this trivial loss she had suffered intense anxiety and been faithless to her resolution to seek death, which ends all fears. [10]
The impression was left so strongly on her mind that with all her fears she could not resist the desire to make an effort to find what meaning there was in this frightfully real dream. [6]
And I also know that before the talk was finished you inquired how I stood as regards aristocracies, and my answer was calculated to relieve your fears. [5]
There's no man Ismail fears so much, because he's the idol of the cafes and the bazaars. [11]
My music, it is but the drip of tears, The garner empty standeth, the oven hath no fire, Night filleth me with fears. [11]
Even her alert instinct had not been able to detect the acting, and the intervening hours were spent in speculating whether her fears had not been overdone. [9]
Likewise meseemed that, in overriding my own fears, I had conquered Ann's; whereas she had been pale and speechless, clinging to the folds of my dress, she now stood forth boldly by my side. [10]
There's no man in Egypt Ismail loves and fears so much--" "Except little Dicky Donovan! [11]
It was as if he felt himself at greater advantage, making no emotional demonstrations, so allaying her fears, giving her time to think; for it was clear he hoped to master her intelligence, so strong a part of her. [11]
If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears. [7]
But nothing that I do brings me happiness--at most it moderates my fears. [10]
A lover, who hopes everything and fears everything, who goes in an instant from the heights of bliss to the depths of despair. [4]
Something of his hopes and fears Alice divined, and he felt her sympathy, although she did not intrude upon his reticence by any questions. [4]
I had stolen hither, knowing full well that the old folks would not have suffered me to ride forth after Ann, and my good godfather even now ceased not from railing, in his fears for his darling. [10]
He found, on his return home, that the Vekeel's crimes far exceeded his worst fears. [10]
He had informed his friend of Iras's fears. [10]
He therefore artfully hinted his fears to the old man, and left his hint to work itself out. [6]
All fears about him were over, and a great peace fell upon me. [10]
They looked to him as one who was with them and of them in all their hopes and fears, their joys and sorrows, who laughed with them and wept with them; and as his heart was theirs; so their hearts turned to him. [7]
She was too high-spirited, too confident of her position, to be assailed by such fears. [4]
The result surpassed her worst fears. [10]
The sound of her own voice seemed to make her forget her fears, and she warbled as naturally and freely as any young bird of a May morning. [6]

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