How To Use Fearful In A Sentence

A well-known waterman at Selby said that the river was in a fearful condition, and this had a good deal to do with the reported collisions taking place and damage done to boats on their voyages to and from the town.
The *victim* of the defacement is the person who is intended to be fearful. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Shmulevich Case — Facts and New York Law, as I Can Best Figure Them Out:
Another translation of the Bible uses the word cowardly instead of fearful. How to Overcome Fear
Her children had been fearful of being taken into care if their parents were jailed.
But he's a timid child, fearful of water, heights, spiders, darkness and the great outdoors.

Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the most terrible of lethargies. Les Miserables
Tibetans around me were shaking their heads in sadness, because they were fearful for him, and others were openly agreeing with him. Kate Saunders: Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage
During the trial he became so fearful of assassination that he had steel plates sewn into his hat.
He paused at the intersection, fearful that a hard leather boot was waiting for him no matter which way he ran.
Could frame thy fearful symmetry? Burning Bright
While still suffering, the negative feeling of fearful projection may result in craving for the addictive substance or behaviour.
Our hero grew less fearful of a wreck And took a little stroll upon the deck. The Times Literary Supplement
So we are intended to be relieved of the fear that our dying need be a fearful experience.
The nurse on duty was fearful that the patient should get worse.
The side effects of sedatives and calming drugs like Prozac used for destructive, anxious and fearful pets make animals sleepy or lethargic.
Commander of the Faithful being a fearful boggler at a sum. The Haunted House
James had none of Elizabeth's fearful paranoia about Catholics and Puritans.
Everyone is scared, waiting fearfully for the next attack.
Fear causes us to mistrust a group we're fearful of, and to more strongly trust the group we're a part of.
Some firms are unsure of which systems to install and are fearful of getting it wrong.
There I was sitting in my chair, jittery with adrenaline and close to peeing my pants, fearful of the imposing figure in the center of the room.
Other substitutions included “embrace” for “tackle,” “blucher” for “slush buster,”* “muggings” for “hog wash,” “fearful” for “rough,” “wickedest” for “vilest,” “leer” for “slobber,” “jolly” for “bully,” and “swindle” for “humbug.” Mark Twain
For a few days, the big banks responsible for allocating the world's capital baulked at doing business with each other, fearful that their counterparts' credit would go bad.
These were the rugged and fearful places the men continually returned to in search of a skilled and brave enemy.
I closed the sliding windows, with translucent paper for window panes, called shoji, and went to bed, but the lack of privacy was fearful, and I have not yet sufficient trust in my fellow-creatures to be comfortable without locks, walls, or doors! Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
My father, in the first agitations of his mind, on discovering your wicked, your shameful elopement, imprecated on his knees a fearful curse upon you. Clarissa Harlowe
Although she is excited about going to school, she is also rather apprehensive and fearful. Educational Psychology in a Changing World
Fearfully she launched herself on the slippery path, clinging to the wet sleeve of his mackintosh. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
Keep pretending that a scold is the same as a reasoned argument, however, I can guarantee that you will help usher in the very era of protectionism that you seem so fearful of. Lean Left » Blog Archive » The Weird “Advice” of Jacob Weisberg
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller
Sometimes he presents her as a vain and trivial woman, sometimes as merely ignorant and fearful.
Bilko's motor-pool privates were scruffy, lazy, unattractive slobs who liked to do as little work as possible, never paraded and were almost fearful of weaponry.
TV would not touch him for punditry duties, fearful of what he might say, and hence there was no glorious retirement into the public life of a celebrity, of the sort which his playing career so richly deserved.
There are no limits to our human ability to justify our fear for, in truth, the world is a fearful place.
Burned in recent years by huge unsold inventories of movie merchandise and fearful of the slowing economy, everyone from toymakers and retailers to moviemakers has cut back.
However, these serials depict only the macabre and fearful aspects of these supernatural characters.
The champan tossed fearfully, so that it was regarded as a good plan to cut down the mast. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
The Jongleurs must have continued long after their masters were stamped out, for their direct successors are with us to-day, and our hand-organ is the descendant of their fearful and wonderful organistrum. Woman's Work in Music
His right hand, clenched into an iron mallet, battered desperately at the fearful face bent toward his; the beast-like teeth shattered under his blows and blood splattered, but still the red eyes gloated and the taloned fingers sank deeper and deeper until a ringing in Turlogh's ears knelled his soul's departure. People of the Dark
She had put serpent-shaped silver barrettes in her hair, and she played with fearful but clear conviction.
They convey the awful immediacy and sheer terror of modern combat, with its fearsome gizmos and consequently fearful casualties. Times, Sunday Times
In this time of war and destruction, a fearful thought, a threatening glance, were common and yet they still played with a weak mind or a feeble soul.
Pieta lifted her brows slightly as he spoke, for fearful though she was, she knew not her true heritage and had never been told from where she inherited her exotic looks.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller
I was seriously uncomfortable, and the baseball-sized knot on the back of my head throbbed and pulsated with every fearful beat of my heart. Show Stoppah
The main businesses were agriculture and tourism; few citizens relied on government jobs, and so the townspeople were less fearful of the regime. Times, Sunday Times
Small shopkeepers were fearful about losing business to the new retail giants, but most people welcomed them. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
If we've ever had internal conflicts about cheating or wanting to cheat, had sexual longings for or experiences with someone of the same sex, imagined being with a prostitute or had pedophilic fantasies, watched porn or coveted a neighbor's husband or wife, we're going to be drawn -- in guilty fascination or fearful hostility -- to public disclosures of both forbidden sexual behavior and it's humiliating confession. Michael Bader, D.M.H.: Everything Said About Anthony Weiner Is Bull
People usually are fearful of and reluctant to change, but they have learned that change is necessary if they are to better themselves and their lives. Dr T.P.Chia
It was old, and high above the water; and it shook fearfully as they went over it.
Tyger, Tyger, burning bright In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Behold him next assuming the reins of government at a time when every other mind on earth would have shrunk aghast from the fearful task, or sunk beneath its complicated perils. The Great Funeral Oration on Abraham Lincoln
This smart girl's lack of attention to her assignments, and her overt "fearfulness" surely suggest something else is going on it her life. More About the Fearful Student
Partnerships are a radical intervention in a world stuck with its past(Sentence dictionary), confounded by its present and fearful of its future.
Once there, Anson Burlingame, with his gentle manner and courtly presence, drew from those enfeebled castaways all the story of the burning of the vessel, followed by the long privation and struggle that had lasted through forty-three fearful days and across four thousand miles of stormy sea. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
So fearful are parents that their daughters will be taken away that they refuse to simply drop them off; they or a relative will stay outside all day to make sure nothing happens.
We may well imagine that such scenes were preceded as well as accompanied by a fearful racket within (a familiar device of our low comedy and extravaganza), the effect probably heightened by tempestuous _melodrama_ on the _tibiae_, as both the scenes cited are in _canticum_. The Dramatic Values in Plautus
I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man who, in mid-winter just landed from a four years’ dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term.
We are disadvantaged by talking about longer-term fearful consequences that are harder to sell when the other side is saying, for example, that Repower America is going to make things worse "tomorrow" by causing good jobs to be lost. Steven G. Brant: Reinventing Repower America: Our Only Hope for Winning the Climate Change Battle in America
Deep guttural growls came from the alleyway, as well as fearful whimpering.
Matthew Gilson Joseph Epstein Perhaps with this last reference he is playing off a quote from Saint-Simon: "Mme de Saint Simon, all goodness, tried in vain to check our most outrageous utterances, but the brakes were off and there ensued the most fearful struggle between the expression of sentiments that, humanly speaking, were quite natural, and the sensations that they were not altogether Christian. Boulevardier's Delight
He does not sound at all handsome, and he is fearfully old.
People are more fearful about shouting at people, telling them to do a job properly, clipping them round the ear.
Our grab for dominating the world's strategic petroleum reserves is now unhinging world stability, and I think other countries recognize this and are getting fearful and angry as well.
It probably made me a bit less fearful of it. Times, Sunday Times
He informed Victor, as a probe, that the business of the Life Insurance was at periods 'fearfully necrological! Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
He speaks to them of his own little "nippers" at home, and they in turn tell him of their father who is fighting, of their mother who now works in the fields, and of baby who is fearfully ignorant, does not know the difference between the French and the "Engleesch," and who insisted on calling the great English General who had stayed at their farm "papa. The White Road to Verdun
Family members had become so fearful of the situation, they no longer visited. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
I have felt powerless, disgusted, frustrated, horrified and even fearful this week, all in equal measure.
Looking lost and fearful, he gave his name and explained he made 150 napkin rings in a day but was reluctant to say any more. Times, Sunday Times
It was attended by a large concourse of Friends and others, and a solid meeting was held on the occasion; after which, his remains were interrd in Friends burial-ground at this place (Jericho, Queens County, New York.) I have thought (even presented so incompletely, with such fearful hiatuses, and in my own feebleness and waning life) one might well memorize this life of Elias Hicks. Notes (Such as They Are) Founded on Elias Hicks. November Boughs
But her fearful soul hasn't shut down: vide her visible delight in the pagan abandon with which her beautiful child solo-dances - to Alanis Morissette's ‘You Oughta Know’ - beside a corral full of startled emus.
With the club poised to go out of business on January 18 unless a new owner can be found, the sickening injury left Brass fearful he may have played his last game for the club.
He said AWB members were fearful and that the black group were "playing politics" and were there to "agitate" them. News24 Top Stories
In this fearful and cynical climate, talk about space only brings our self-doubt and loathing to the fore rather than doing anything to tackle it.
She flew over it like a bird; but at the same instant Vronsky, to his horror, felt that he had failed to keep up with the mare's pace, that he had, he did not know how, made a fearful, unpardonable mistake, in recovering his seat in the saddle.
` ` I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy Order of the Temple of Zion; '' and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette towards the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane. Ivanhoe
This impetuous and fiery temperament was rendered yet more fearful by the indulgence of every intemperance; it fed on wine and lust; its very virtues strengthened its vices, -- its courage stifled every whisper of prudence; its intellect, uninured to all discipline, taught it to disdain every obstacle to its desires. The Last of the Barons — Complete
She handed it to Kirby, then glanced back, fearfully, at the house. ON A WICKED DAWN
Harsh voices followed after the loud noise and Gabrielle quickly, fearfully pulled her shoes back on and unlocked her stall.
Just as they did this all of the horses let out a fearful neigh, and took off running.
It's very hard at the moment to read that mood, but it's uncertain, slightly fearful, unconfident.
Giojoso fell to trembling; behind him, Rinolfo, the cause of all this garboil, stared with round big eyes; whilst my mother, all a-quiver, clutched at her bosom and looked at me fearfully, but spoke no word. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
Making warding signs and mumbling fearful prayers to Caelus Nin and the Seven Brass gods, the bewildered people of Sumifa fled before her, making for the cliffs, their chickens and goats squawking and bleating in front of them. Song of Time
It becomes increasingly fixated on rituals and formalities, and ever more fearful of ultimate results.
Shelob, Smaug, the Balrog ... in their astounding names, the fearful verve of their descriptions, their various undomesticated malevolence, these creatures are utterly embedded in our world-view. Archive 2009-06-01
The spritsailyard rattled, and broke off sharp'at the point where it crossed the bowsprit; and a heavy smashing thump against our bows told, in fearful language, that we had run her down. Tom Cringle's Log
Condulmiero was already fiercely engaged, and soon his carack was a mere unrigged helmless waterlog, only saved from instant destruction by her immense size and terrific guns, which, well aimed, low on the water, to gain the _ricochet_, did fearful mischief among the attacking galleys. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
His love, that had been suspended for awhile by busy cares, but which, if without much refining sentiment, was still the master passion of his soul, flowed back into all his thoughts, -- circumfused the very atmosphere with a fearful, softening charm. My Novel — Volume 11
We ignored the distractions and chiseled away at the rocks before us at alarming speed, all fearful that the chaos would catch up with us.
But people are fearful of missives from the taxman and often inadvertently overpay tax. Times, Sunday Times
Like me, one class member once romped across L.A. County, fearful that she was going to be killed, though she feared the Mafia, not the CIA or FBI, as I did. Robert David Jaffee: Ron Artest: Hero for the Mentally Ill and Everyone Else
In summer there was an interval of half an hour between the lecture and the sermon, "when," says Mr. William Cairns, "there was opportunity for a delightful breathing-time, and the youths who were swift of foot could just reach the bottom of a hill whereon were plenteous blaeberries, and snatch a fearful joy if one could swallow without leaving the tell-tale marks on the lips and tongue. Principal Cairns
In the village were only scared-looking women standing in small groups, glancing fearfully around.
The most fearful enemy is not having a firm conviction.
He was weightless, bodiless, free of pain, yet somehow fearful of the possibilities that lay ahead.
The engineer stared from face to face, a little fearfully, wondering what had sparked this inquiry. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Spoiled, greedy, selfish, North Americans, of which I am one, fearful of someone taking a crumb from a banquet table is what we are. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Illegal Immigration and the Rule of Law
I stood in the hallway, fearful that Meir Ahronson would ask me for an account of how I had fared.
The WHO has fearfully reported that Noma may be on the increase in various African countries.
I felt isolated, even fearful of unknown bogeymen and demons.
An Arab writer on the consequences of the Black Death for animals added another hideous dimension to our awareness of that fearful episode.
Players did not know where they stood and they were often too fearful to ask for clarification. Times, Sunday Times
What can we make of this fearful symmetry? Times, Sunday Times
She was sound asleep, apparently in some fearful dream. Times, Sunday Times
Too many people have, and would, just be fearfully quiet in such a horrible situation.
Fearfully, he walked closer to the edge.
Parents are ever fearful for their children.
: one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin yeoman Archive 2003-10-01
“Was ever woman in a strait so fearful!” exclaimed the Lady of Lochleven — “At least, thou rash boy, beware that no one tastes the food, but especially the jar of succory-water.” The Abbot
I. iii.176 (130,9) [left in the fearful guard] [W: fearless] Dr. Warburton has forgotten that _fearful_ is not only that which fears, but that which is feared or causes fear. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Does the former nurse and Britain's one-time most famous agony aunt have any advice for our fearful nation?
They each regarded Mrs. Bennet fearfully.
The boss was fearful of his secretary's anger.
When we are faced by a fearful situation it is human nature to hide our emotions behind a brave front and to smile when inside we are crying.
Do thou, O most holy one, with thy honourable supplications both shelter and preserve, and unto the enemies -- as fearful and unsubduable shew those that make a festival of thy (name of the event), that we may call unto thy Son: O The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
We saw people running by outside our window, peering fearfully back over their shoulders.
Two carbon exchanges were forced to suspend trading as panic hit investors fearful that they had bought invalid permits. Times, Sunday Times
The other stood on the edge of the nest, looking down fearfully into the abyss, whither, no doubt, his bolder nest mate had flown, and calling disconsolately from time to time. Wilderness Ways
Fearful, yet inquisitive, Moon-Watcher crawled out on to the edge of the cave and peered down the face of the cliff.
As he sees it, the aggression of tabloid journalism discourages potential candidates, who are fearful of the requisite intrusion into their private lives.
The image is a fearful intimation of tragedy, a presentiment of a century of spiritual crisis.
In many residential areas of Baghdad yesterday locals had set up private roadblocks, fearful that an outbreak of major violence today could trigger looting.
The swift progress of the deadly disease was fearful to watch. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
He points out that even in last year's buoyant market 5000 repossession actions were lodged in Scottish courts, and he is very fearful of what might happen if prices crash.
Moisture ran from her brow as the fire flourished and crackled and the pressure inside her gathered fearful momentum.
Symptoms to watch for include intrusive memory loss, reliving trauma, flashbacks and becoming hyper-vigilant or fearful.
Some parents found social work visits made them fearful and anxious and their self-esteem was reduced.
He was so fearful of losing his new-found facility that he practiced for the rest of that day, and lay down at night with what he called the toothache in every muscle. Dick in the Everglades
He glanced around fearfully in case anyone was watching what seemed like an ordinary conversation between the two men.
The public is given a fearful impression with images of Frankenstein foods, killer tomatoes, and terminator seeds.
It's also got its own currency, so, unlike the travails of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy or Spain, its woes don't require the endless fearful summitry of a disapproving euro zone, where progress comes in tiny increments if at all. U.K. Debt Plan Can't Cover All Its Sins
Eventually, though, she decided this was exactly what she was working so hard to protect -- this ordinary, unfearful life. This Is War: How USAID workers are trained for work and danger in Afghanistan
Parents have got fearful and suspicious and untrusting.
There's no question that at the time of the abduction she was in fear and was fearful for a period of time.
'But why do you not leave the Vaults by the' forty-foot cave 'thro' which I entered? 'demanded Frank, who was fearful of some treachery. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston
He had imagined that their weakness and fearfulness had led them to destruction.
When she fearfully approaches him, he touches her coat, but stops himself.
We have been hexed to devalue, negatively connote, discredit, caution against, inhibit, prohibit, and even become scared and fearful of allowing spirit to express itself through our whole body, mind, heart, and soul. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Corporal punishment, imprisonment, and amercement resulted; of frequent occurrence were those fearful scenes which culminated in riots such as those of Ilocos in 1807 and The Philippine Islands
There's a fearful deal o 'oaths spilt in a grave while it's i' th 'makin', I can tell yo '; and th' Almeety's name is spoken more daan i 'th' hoile than it is up aboon, for all th 'parson reads it so mich aat of his book. Lancashire Idylls (1898)
I think it will succeed although it will take ages, for he is fearfully shy, and I am likewise affected.
Then they surprised me with an account of a fearfully crevassed piece of surface that they had come upon, forty-six and a half miles from the station, where they had lost two dogs. The South Pole~ Depot Journeys
She was fearful that she would fail.
She continued tirelessly, painting with pessimistic strokes the growing black future her husband was meditating for her, while the boy, fearful of some vague, incomprehensible catastrophe, began to weep silently, with a pendulous, trembling underlip. CHAPTER XIX
All that despite the fearful scramble to Bill and Ben's pots at the end of the programme.
Now it was, it is clear, that the sword of sorrow pierced her through and through, for the Queen of martyrs was fearfully and mortally wounded in that part which is impassible, that is, in her soul; and she bore the death of the Cross in that which could not die, suffering all the more her grievous inward death, as outward death departed farther from her. Meditations on the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The system also hamstrings younger untenured professors, making them fearful of taking intellectual risks and causing them to write in jargon aimed only at those in their narrow subdiscipline: Thus in economics, people have "utility functions" instead of needs and wants. Tenure trouble?
The online version of a gallery show, it has some fearfully vicious images - check out particularly the caricatures.
t 'man a-sittin' on a bit on a rock up above -- a dunnot know, a only know as a heared a great fearful screech i 't' air. Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
While still suffering, the negative feeling of fearful projection may result in craving for the addictive substance or behaviour.
Whether this is because pride makes people cling to their living-room furniture to the last, or because bedding is more pawnable, I do not know, but certainly many of the bedrooms I saw were fearful places. The Road to Wigan Pier
The mother, still recovering from the trauma of the delivery, fearfully anticipated the possibility of rejection by her in-laws.
Players did not know where they stood and they were often too fearful to ask for clarification. Times, Sunday Times
There is nothing so fearful as to be alone in a combat situation.
Some are so fearful of intruders their doors are protected by extra security grilles and Mrs Cooper's house had its own security camera.
They may make ageing less of a fearful prospect. Times, Sunday Times
Research that revealed many women were fearful about obtaining an AVO, in particular going to court.
The first text of this work I wrote in wax and put together as I was growing old, with my own hands and blearing eyes, fearful indeed and blushing a great deal that my lack of skill must ever reach your ears. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
It was something fearful to see him eat escalloped oysters. Mark Twain
I was fearful that with the new model the company would go berserk and give up on the countryside altogether. Times, Sunday Times
A couple of white-knuckled tourists, fearfully working their way up the cables, stare in amazement as he saunters past.
And as you have made me fearful by your cautions, my heart at times misgives me. Pamela
It was in this spirit that I was able to roger that houri in Borneo during the Batang Lupar battle, whimpering fearfully the while, and do justice to Mrs Popplewell while in flight from the outraged townsfolk of Harper's Ferry. Watershed
The literature supports an Oedipal stage, but finds that a good superego is likely to come from a loving rather than a fearful relationship with a father.
The pistol had been bought and prepared for the purpose with the utmost nicety, not only for use but show; nor is it unfrequent to find in such instances of premeditated ferocity in design a fearful kind of coxcombry lavished upon the means. The Disowned — Volume 08
Others may be fearful that they will not be able to cope without the support and guidance of the therapist.
In his daily excursions to the bird's-eye rollway he never took the same route twice, but skulked, peering fearfully about in the underbrush, avoiding even the game trails. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
Our fearful notions about the effects of getting older stem from an earlier time.
Woe is thee! what grievous outrage hath been wreaked on thee! fearful penalty for thy foul deed hath the deity imposed, whoe'er he is whose hand is heavy upon thee. Hecuba
A gaggle of ibis roosting in a nearby tree hooted fearfully.
cast fearful glances at the large dog
Now he is less fearful, though no less driven. Times, Sunday Times
She had thought the timid beings would be fearful of undertaking such a journey.
My quick tongue and little mean streak kept them slightly fearful. Christianity Today
That unhallowed booty created a factitious aristocracy, ever fearful that they might be called upon to regorge their sacrilegious spoil. Coningsby
Adults were always angry and fearful and a force to be dealt with. Times, Sunday Times
Sensitive, fearful, and morose, he would not go to Europe to be known as the hunchback husband of Lajeunesse, the great singer. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
The Spanish, fearful of both the English and a more obvious threat by Russian explorers moving South along the coast, sent the governor of Baja California, Captain Gaspar de Portola up the wild Pacific coast to establish garrisons - presidios, founded at San Diego and Monterey. The five faces of God - and where to find them
They convey the awful immediacy and sheer terror of modern combat, with its fearsome gizmos and consequently fearful casualties. Times, Sunday Times
Archaeologists are often fearful of drifting too far from the ‘scientific’ rigour of postholes and potsherds into a reliance on what some see as ‘biased’ documents.
Now he is less fearful, though no less driven. Times, Sunday Times
Players are tentative and nervous, fearful that one missed shot or ugly turnover will earn them a seat on the bench.
He looked fearfully at his sleeping companion, waited to hear the regular breathing, then dropped his voice to a hoarse panting. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
The spaniel crouched by the door whining and scratching, and as Kerry came up it raised its beady black eyes to him with a look which, while it was not unfearful, held an unmistakable appeal. Dope
January 29, 2006 at 04: 03 PM fpm Young: Since you are afraid of homosexuals getting equal treatment, fearful enough to write discrimination into the Virginia constitution, why don't we also write the tax increase into the Virginia constitution?? Decisive Battle on Tuesday
I think we are genetically programmed to be fearful of BMW drivers in the same way that we are programmed to be just a little bit frightened of Scottish people in pub lavatories.
She looked around fearfully and shivered slightly as she entered, the cool darkness descending ominously upon her.
When the bombilation became too fearful, Lovaina called out from her bed: "Make smaller noise! Nobody is asleep!"
Long before we were all fearful and protective and the world was fraught with recalls over choking hazards and worries of childhood diabetes brought on by too much sugar and whole grains were hailed as the new food messiah, the cheerio was the perfect cereal, designed with all of that in mind and more. Archive 2008-01-01
Revelation 21: 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. Election Central Morning Roundup
The terrible figure of Draupadi, as she dishevels her long black hair, is the very impersonation of revenge; and a Hindoo audience never fails to shudder at her fearful vow -- that the straggling tresses shall never again be tied up until the day when Bhima shall have fulfilled his vow, and shall then bind them up whilst his fingers are still dripping with the blood of Duhsasana. The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France
However, despite the pain and fearful reactions by some, it is possible to create and balance flavors in piquant foods.
I'd never done groupwork before and stewed with fearful irritation as my time came to speak. Times, Sunday Times
He was fearful that the bearings might seize; if that happened, the spinning flywheel would tear the ship to pieces.
Lily had come through the rip in the fabric to cast judgment on her weak traitorous aunt, that fearful and despairing wretch. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
And when his lines were ended he wept, till he swooned away, and abode in his swoon a long while; but as soon as he came to himself, he looked right and left and seeing no one in the desert, he became fearful of the wild beasts; so he clomb to the top of a high mountain, where he heard the voice of a son of Adam speaking within The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Altogether it was a fearful lesson to the rebels in that part of the country and most beneficial in its results. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently fearful of public opprobrium, companies have been spurred to reduce toxic emissions on their own.
While religious freedom had been secured, philosophy had become timid, official, and timeserving; retentive as FONTENELLE of the truths within its grasp, and fearful to give utterance to aught that might disturb the stillness of the temple, the lecture-room, or fashionable auditory. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges

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