When a slave is drunk, the slaveholder has no fear that he will plan an insurrection; no fear that he will escape to the north.
I had reason to fear that my sable face might prove altogether too transparent for the safe concealment of my hazardous enterprise.
If you can sweeten these rooms, do so by all means, but I fear that result is beyond your brush or any other.
And yet, mamma, now that I have thought more I fear that in sacrificing my own heart I am also sacrificing him.
I will take her there myself on the evening boat," he said decisively, and he hastened away feeling that he must act promptly, for his aching head and limbs led him tofear that Belle's fever was already in his veins.
We will do all that can be done for him, but I fear that we are too late.
I want always to remember him kindly, but I fear that I am too much of a wild beast yet to be trusted too long with the man who stands between me and the one person in all the world I want.
I fear that it may be a most sinister 'joke,' Olga," he replied.
I fear that I should prove a very poor judge, madame," Tarzan replied, "for if you had been guilty of murder I should say that the victim should be grateful to have met so sweet a fate.
I fear thatthere is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently," said the captain.
Victor, I fear that he does not mean to let me leave Dorset House just yet.
I thank you for your invitation, but I fear that it would not be good for my health.
With my hand thrust again into my pocket, I remarked, without even so much as a glance at him: "I fear that you do some injustice to the police.
At any rate," Walter said to Ralph, "we have gained a respite; but even now I fear that if the Black Prince comes not until tomorrow he will arrive too late.
I fear that there is but little hope of his escaping, seeing that they are between him and Calais, and that assuredly some among them must be as well or better mounted than himself.
I fear that if I did it would defeat the ends of justice.
I fear that I shall not be able to keep on this house.
I fear that you do think I am intruding,' said Melmotte, 'but I trust that what I have to say will be held to excuse me.
And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.
I began to fear that, in spite of my truly good intentions, I was again failing to be as "attentive" as the occasion demanded; and so I presented her with my floral tribute.
I fear that few of us live by logic, even in Kings Port; and then, they had all called upon her in that garden for nothing!
But now there was a fear thatthe "interest" might put itself into opposition.
But he already began to fear that he lacked the power to steel his heart against his daughter.
She implored her father and she implored her brother to be ceaseless in their endeavours to trace him,--sometimes seeming almost to fear that in this respect she could not fully trust them.
You have had what to me is a very considerable sum,--though I fear that it did not go for much in your large concerns.
I am beginning to fear that I ought not to keep you lingering here without purpose or occupation.
There is that unfortunate promise to his wife; and I fear that he is become so much estranged from English ways that he will hardly care to set himself straight here, after the pain that the universal suspicion gave him.
Now, I think I see Miss Curtis watching in fear that I am over-talking you.
I fear that in any case I should not been inclined to attend the service, but there was something in my daughter's intonation that made me distinctly hostile to the idea.
I usually lay awake the rest of the night in fear that a scorpion would drop from the ceiling on her.
I fear that we, no more than Ingersoll Armour, were quite whole-hearted Bohemians; but I don't know that we really ever pretended to be.
In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which new-comers are treated.
Was it a fear that he should deliver this name to the hazards of another memory than his own?
His retreat had been discovered; and there came upon him at once a fear that if he left the house his child would be taken.
She had given him the promise which he had demanded, and he began to fear that if he pushed the matter further she might go back even from that amount of submission.
He is ready of wit and full of invention that, if any can possibly extricate themselves from such a strait, it is assuredly he; but I fear that he fell in the first onslaught.
I fear that we cannot do so," the sailor replied, "for there are terrible sands and shallows off the Kentish coast between the mouth of the Thames and Dover, and the wind blows so strongly that we can do nought but run before it.
I fear that if the Northmen surround the city your ship will be destroyed.
Such was my father's intention, and I fear that all is now lost in East Anglia.
Oh, madame, I fear that I shall never be able to rescue this accursed city, and, I implore you, be my mediatrix with his majesty.
But my mother's name has made me fear that--that I am wrong to hold such long parley with you in secret and at night.
I fear that my 'Schmerz-Lied' will have to give place to embateria, and our spinet to the discordant drum.
I fear that it is needless to care on her account who may hear the story of her shame," said Sir William.
But I had no wish to inquire, and the matter would have dropped had he not himself added--"I fear that I shall meet acquaintances in Egypt whom it will give me no pleasure to see.
I own I had begun to have my doubts of him, and to fear thathe had absolutely disgraced himself.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fear that" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
