How To Use Afeard In A Sentence
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Whether it were really Odysseus or not, I am afeard.
Rhesus
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And once again he spake, “A countenance of terror I bore up before all folk, after that I brooded over the heritage of my brother, and on every side did I spout out poison, so that none durst come anigh me, and of no weapon was I adrad, nor ever had I so many men before me, as that I deemed myself not stronger than all; for all men were sore afeard of me.”
The Story of the Volsungs
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‘Lady,’ she croaked out, ‘I have ill tidings, and I am afeard.’
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Dunno….ai fyndz teh pooter mausies nawt liek teh kitteh furz oar teh dusst…bof ub demz cawnstant inn mai haos ai iz afeard.
Mr Fluffykins was justifiably proud of his reputation - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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And once again he spake, “A countenance of terror I bore up before all folk, after that I brooded over the heritage of my brother, and on every side did I spout out poison, so that none durst come anigh me, and of no weapon was I adrad, nor ever had I so many men before me, as that I deemed myself not stronger than all; for all men were sore afeard of me.”
The Story of the Volsungs
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I know it and the lads forrad know it, and Belvedere he knows it and is mighty feared of her and small blame either -- aye, and mayhap you'll be afeard of her when you know her better.
Martin Conisby's Vengeance
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I was afeard o 'the outcome mesel', an 'I spoke my mind freely to Mr. Green.
Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road
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Some, having spotted her, could draw no closer than a distant gaze: they were afeard, they would admit later over ale.
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So then they laughed harder than ever, and said they should be afeard to speak to her, and a deal more I can't call to mind.
Camilla
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A 27-tonne bell inscribed with a line from Shakespeare's The Tempest – "Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises" – will form the centrepiece of the ceremony, and Cavendish is one of the main contenders to lead out the British team.
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Atwixt me and him, there was a small black oak staddle, and thinks I to myself, if I can git to that, I can hold my gun steady 'nough to shoot him; but then I was afeard I shouldn't kill him; and if I didn't he'd kill me.
Chains and Freedom: Or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross
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Even the river critters were afeard of the monster!
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Hogni answered, “None the more shall we waver for that cause; for little methinks have we shrunk aback whenas men fell to fight; and naught shall it avail thee to make us afeard, — and for an ill fate hast thou wrought.”
The Story of the Volsungs
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“I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their argument?”
I Have Seen The Enemy and It Is . . .
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_ -- A pirty storry, bit I be afeard there's naw moril to it.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
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When I was a young men I used tull be afeard thot the owners would guv me the sack.
THE SEA FARMER
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We took them up in the pinnace, Moone & Carie much afeard & Crokeham in a sound, & with them a boxe or kist of great weight.
The Life of the World to Come
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'She need not be afeard of it, however,' said the third, 'for 'twill never be no worse.
Camilla
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But once thot farm is mine I wull no be afeard ony longer.
THE SEA FARMER
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He's a nature lover if ever there was one, an 'he's afeard of cities.
Chapter II
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'Oh, I must see her -- I must see her!' cries she, a-shakin 'wuss'n ever, so that I was afeard she'd fall off
Peregrine's Progress
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It's a clean hand now: shake it-don't be afeard.
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A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts that she's afeard of herself sometimes.
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And Cosdroe, king of the Persians, subdued to his empire all the realms of the world; and he came into Jerusalem and was afeard and adrad of the sepulchre of our Lord, and returned, but he bare with him the part of the Holy Cross that S. Helena had left there.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5
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‘Afeard’, used by Spenser, is the regular participle of the old verb to ‘affear’, still existing as a law term, as
English Past and Present
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I'd like to go along, but I'm afeard it's me for the mountains till the end.
Chapter II