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Example sentences for "fear and"

  • We can strike him in the very midst of his Lares and Penates, where he feels himself safest, without so much as mentioning his name; and he cannot complain, for he lives in fear and terror of his wife.

  • Lucien, in fear and trembling, confided to his beloved that David was in love with his sister Eve, and that his sister Eve was in love with David, and that the two were to be married shortly.

  • Helen's flesh crawled at this confession, and at the sight of this reptile who owned that he had destroyed Robert Penfold in fear and cowardice.

  • Baffled here, young Wardlaw went down to Oxford and shut himself up in his own room, a prey to fear and remorse.

  • But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.

  • Then let the trumpets sound The tucket sonance and the note to mount; For our approach shall so much dare the field That England shall couch down in fear and yield.

  • If I do sweat, they are the drops of thy lovers, and they weep for thy death; therefore rouse up fear and trembling, and do observance to my mercy.

  • Well, if so," I answered, "our best chance is to show no fear and go on.

  • Then followed tumult indescribable as of heavy men and things rolling down the stairs, with cries of fear and indignation.

  • In another minute we had started at a trot toward the White Rock, whilst from the city of Harmac behind us rose a wail of fear and misery.

  • For all his supposed offences he was again summoned before the General Assembly at Boston; and, in fear and anxiety, Edith saw him depart.

  • If he is the trustee of an orphan, and has the power to defraud, he will soon prove that he is not without the will, and that his passions are only restrained by fear and not by reason.

  • But the men from Glengarry knew no fear and sought no favor.

  • But, in spite of all his reasoning, in spite of all his readings and his prayers, the gloom remained unbroken except by occasional paroxysms of fear and remorse.

  • There, with a mixture of fear and admiration, he pored upon its goodly proportions and the regularity and softness of the pile.

  • At this hour, when I am purified of fear and sorrow, and already survive myself and my affections, it is for your sake, and not for mine, that I desire her presence.

  • The jailer came to open it with Baisemeaux, who, devoured by fear and uneasiness, was beginning, in spite of himself, to listen at the door.

  • And that is why, instead of gaining the sea at once, which would proclaim my fear and guilt, that is why I remain upon French ground.

  • The precautions with which the disciples of Christ performed the offices of religion were at first dictated by fear and necessity; but they were continued from choice.

  • After so many reciprocal injuries, Gallus had reason to fear and to distrust.

  • One of the princes of the nation was urged, by fear and ambition, to retire towards the South with eight hords, which composed between forty and fifty thousand families.

  • In a large and tumultuous assembly, the restraints of fear and shame, so forcible on the minds of individuals, are deprived of the greatest part of their influence.

  • The captive's face was the picture of dismay; even the streaks of paint did not hide his look of fear and bewilderment.

  • Before the members of the Golden Band, and especially before Kovroff, the small rascals stood in fear and trembling.

  • But almost a month passed before I could arouse myself from that condition of fear and--I had almost said, softening of the brain--which prevented my enjoyment of my success.

  • The dogs crouched horror-struck, their hair standing on end, barking at him in fear and trembling.

  • Ashamed and terrified with her maidenly sense, overawed and obscured by this hateful charm, yet unable to stay herself, unable to resist it, in a transport of fear and remorse, she danced on irresponsibly.

  • Two days later his breathless body was found, all stiff and stark, hidden among the brown bracken at the bottom of the dell, where the murderer no doubt had thrust it away out of his sight on that fatal afternoon in fear and trembling.

  • Her face was white and she was looking at him, in fear and perplexity.

  • We marry in fear and trembling, sex for a home is the woman's traffic, and the man comes to his heart's desire when his heart's desire is dead.

  • Lust and greed tempered by fear and an irrational vanity.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fear and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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