The Indians were perfectly submissive, being afraidto offend the admiral, and many of them became Christians, merely to oblige him and conciliate his favour.
These people were perfectly peaceable, and shewed no tokens of being afraid of the Christians.
Grijalva, beleaving that this woman would be a faithful messenger, sent her to persuade the natives to come out of the woods, being afraidif he sent Julian and Melchior that they might not return.
But Antigonus, being afraid lest he might suffer some violence, first commanded the soldiers to keep off, calling out and throwing stones at those who pressed forwards.
But her father would not give her to any one of them, being afraid that, if he did so, he would cause the death of the others; so the damsel remained unmarried.
Though Hathasarman heard that, he sat in dharna at the door of my father's house, until he gave me to him, being afraid of causing the death of a Brahman.
When he said this, she, being afraid, said, "What does that matter to you?
The man accepted the advice of his soul, and was about to follow it literally, when the soul itself drew back, being afraid to undergo the sufferings inherent in such a death for the body.
The envoy to foreign lands bequeatheth his property to his children before he setteth out, being afraid that he will be killed either by wild beasts of the desert or by the nomads therein.
Being afraid to go by the English Channel, it sailed all round Scotland and Ireland; some of the ships getting cast away on the latter coast in bad weather, the Irish, who were a kind of savages, plundered those vessels and killed their crews.
But, the captain's wife, being afraid of her husband getting into trouble, locked him up and would not let him sail.
But of the candidates for magistracies every man felt himself in a difficult position, being afraid to give bribes himself, and being afraid that he should lose the office if another did it.
Being afraid of another attack, the Spaniards retired about three or four leagues, to a peninsula at the foot of the Andes, formed by the lake from which the river Bueno issues.
Immediately on seeing the horsemen, the Indians ran for shelter into the wood, being afraid of an attack, and the raw Spaniards went full speed after them in spite of their commander.
By and by after dinner my wife out by coach to see her mother; and I in another (being afraid at this busy time to be seen with a woman in a coach, as if I were idle) towards The.
Perseus, then, being afraid that he should be delivered up to the Romans tried one night to escape by flight and might have taken himself away unobserved to Cotys, a Thracian potentate, but for the fact that the Cretans abandoned him.
But he refused it, being afraid, on which the king desired his youngest son to touch the lion, which he did, without receiving any harm.
But none of the Malabars in the almadias dared to approach the ships, being afraid of the Portuguese, and returned therefore to the land without delivering our people and commodities.
To go on being afraid of--harness and millstones and all that.
Of course, the same thing must have tormented thousands of them,--the terror of being afraid.
Well, Walter, you mustn't think that I had no share in this because of being afraid.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being afraid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
