I am afraid, I tell you; horribly afraid!

She had to be very careful not to drop the Giant, for he was terribly afraid of breaking a leg, being, as I have said, particularly brittle; but she always said that he was as safe in her teeth as he would be if he was lying in his bed.

Now it happened that those in high places did sell gold, and PHYSKE and the divers other persons were sore afraid, and did fall upon each other's necks and did weep.

Mandoline was dreadfully afraid of her mother, and, in her eagerness to be found hard at work, she rattled her needles very fast, while her fingers wandered aimlessly about among the stitches.

I saw that he too had been desperately afraid, and I rejoiced that others beside me had been at breaking-point.

I did get wet coming hither, and am sadly afraid that should I wade the water again I might get certain cricks and pains i' the joints that would mar my devotions for many a day to come.

"It appears that young Mr. Ashley, though very popular in society, was generally believed to be in what is vulgarly termed 'low water'; up to his eyes in debt, and mortally afraid of his dad, whose younger son he was, and who had on one occasion threatened to ship him off to Australia with a £5 note in his pocket if he made any further extravagant calls upon his paternal indulgence.

"I ran from Loneli to Elvira, but I was still able to hear poor Loneli's sobs, for she was awfully afraid to go home.

The props had been severely tried in the two previous attacks, and I was sorely afraid that this would prove too much for them.

I can't tell why, but I am deadly afraid of him!" Her parents, already sorry for their harsh words, tried their utmost to console her.

He disembarked very slyly, I afterward learned, being doubtless afraid he would be arrested.

" I know that this doctrine of obeying God, rather than man, will be considered as dangerous, and heretical by many, but I am not afraid openly to avow it, because it is the doctrine of the Bible; but I would not be understood to advocate resistance to any law however oppressive, if, in obeying it, I was not obliged to commit sin.

" "No; he's deathly afraid of them, and that's a fact," said Joe.

She was happy because she had been exceedingly afraid and the fear had gone.

But she was fearfully afraid, fearfully helpless.

She remained there one night, and would have departed in the morning; but considering the deficiency of milk, and the misery in which she was involved, continually afraid of being discovered and known, she did not know what to do.

"All at once," he says in Sartor, "there arose a thought in me, and I asked myself: 'What Art thou afraid of?

"And I'm mighty afraid that, somehow or other, the old she-dragon will get the best of me yet in this infernal business," he soliloquized.

"I was hideously afraid, and am yet shaking.

Then Joshua and Caleb, which were two of them that had considered the land, said to the people: Why grudge ye and wherefore be ye afraid?

It seemed as if the commandant had much the same as told me he was depending upon the Minute Boys to bring him word of the first sign or sound of danger, and I was nervously afraid lest, by some unlucky chance, I might disappoint him.

And she was afraid, horribly, unspeakably afraid, with a fear that was neither physical nor cowardly, yet which set her very soul a-trembling.

We had some Ladies aboard, that were so extremely sick, that they often wished for Death, but were damnably afraid of being drown'd.

As a criminal I should be mightily afraid of you.

The man himself was afraidterribly afraid.