She gave it to me in silence, and then got up and took it to her sacred recesses in her own room, for fear, by any chance, it might get burnt.
I didn't dare stay away from the Prospectors' Arms, for fear she'd think I wanted to break with her altogether, and yet I was never altogether comfortable in her company.
I was stuck in, of course, and had leg-irons put on for fear I should get out, as another fellow had done a few weeks back.
I had an old horse to ride that couldn't go much faster than I could run, for fear of accident.
Chapter 11 Warrigal left his horse at the edge of the timber, for fear he might want him in a hurry, I suppose.
At St. Omer they breathed their horses with the bridles passed under their arms for fear of accident, and ate a morsel from their hands on the stones of the street, after they departed again.
He waited for a fresh gesture on the part of his superior, for fear he might be mistaken; but this gesture being repeated, he left the ranks, and advanced to receive orders.
The side was stey, and the bottom deep, From bank to brae the water pouring; The bonny gray mare she swat for fear, For she heard the water-kelpy roaring.
I dared not, do you know, leave home all day, For fear of chancing on the Paris lords.
And let thy life-full heat not fervent be, For fear of burning her sunshiny face, Her beauty to disgrace.
I never saw a fairer, I never lo'ed a dearer, And niest my heart I'll wear her, For fear my jewel tine.
But Sylvie hastily checked him, for fear of hurting the Mastiff's feelings.
As the wind was very high, for fear of being blown away, she tied him to a thistle with a piece of fine thread.
I wouldn't shilly- shally about the business, for fear my making a fuss should cause my father to harbour some suspicion.
On these events, for fear of accidents at sea, I sent a public despatch to Rome in duplicate by two different letter-carriers.
I could have wished you had shirked Lyso's concert, for fear of incurring a fourth fit of your seven-day fever.
What do you think of her taking me to task for having Fotheringham here, for fear he should marry Theodora!
She knew John and Theodora would not let me be wronged, so she passes them over, and my mother too, for fear it should be made up to me.
Poor Johnnie woke up crying so much at your being ill, that I ventured to bring him to have one look at you, for fear he should not go to sleep again.
I was coming in the morning to return them and propound my plan, but finding that you could not be seen, I ventured to take it on myself at once, for fear he should get out of reach.
From the day he gave me that it has all been so strange, that now and then I have been almost afraid to awake, for fear it should not be true.
As for breaking his head with over-much study, he had an especial care not to do it in any case, for fear of spoiling his eyes.
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fearof Abimelech his brother.
Isidore Fortunat was literally upon the rack; and to make his sufferings still more horrible, he dared not ask any direct question, nor allow his curiosity to become manifest, for fear of alarming the woman.
Sometimes her endearments were irksome to me, but I never allowed her to see it, for fear of making her still more sad; and in my heart I was content and proud to suffer for and with her.
Her first impulse was to run to the Commissary of Police's office or to the house of Pascal's friend; but on the other hand, she dared not go out, for fear he might return in her absence.
The instant I heard the notice I quitted the city with my servant, who now began to show signs of wavering in his fidelity to me, and the same night, for fear of discovery, we entered the most thickly wooded part of these mountains.
For fear of being seen, she did not usually take the most direct road.
For fear of seeming ridiculous, Emma before going in wished to have a little stroll in the harbour, and Bovary prudently kept his tickets in his hand, in the pocket of his trousers, which he pressed against his stomach.
A gentleman says yes to a great many things without stopping to think: a shabby fellow is known by his caution in answering questions, for fear of, compromising his pocket or himself.
He had not withdrawn his glass, while the Colonel was pouring, for fear it should spill, and now it was running over.
Should he keep her apart, or shut her up, for fear of risk to others, and so lose every chance of restoring her mind to its healthy tone by kindly influences and intercourse with wholesome natures?
As for not going about when and where he liked, for fear he might have some lurking enemy, that was a thing not to be listened to nor thought of.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for fear" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
