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Example sentences for "much afraid"

  • He thought this test proper, to prevent those poisonous communications from Europe, of which gentlemen were so much afraid.

  • But if people who were so much afraid of the introduction of nobility would look around them, they might already find in this country alarming marks of attachment to royalty.

  • And all the more you should be glad if you were so much afraid.

  • But then she said, "Look into your heart, and you will see you are not so much afraid as you think.

  • You must not be so much afraid of dying; that is all over.

  • The Amir is so much afraid of people making plans to destroy him, that he chooses to see all the letters that are written by his subjects; if a husband write to his wife, the letter must first be shown to the Amir.

  • Every one is much afraid of offending this cruel king.

  • She was as much afraid of Irene as any of the other servants.

  • The only one I don't want to part with is cook, for cook is so much afraid of me that she will give me any unwholesome food I like to ask her for.

  • And somehow, although it was the very last thing on earth that I wanted to do, I did it; and now here I am, and I don't feel nearly so much afraid of her as I used.

  • I don't think I'm much afraid, although I don't like to be pounded or to pound anybody.

  • Riley and one of the others were so much afraid of the ghosts that "ha'nted" the old house, that they set out straightway for Greenbank, on foot.

  • But the rest were all as much afraid of Pewee as they were of the master, and as Riley managed Pewee, it behooved them to be afraid of the prime minister, Riley, as well as of King Pewee.

  • Never in my life had I felt so much alone, never so much afraid.

  • Now, man, what is your business with me, and why do you visit one of whom you are so much afraid?

  • Now I ought to feel as much afraid as though that fellow wore a yellow cap and fur cape and pearls like another warrior whom we met last night.

  • You need not be as much afraid of me as that first time I walked in, and thought I had got into a strange house.

  • The debtor is much afraid of this, and rather than the other should Poyson himself, will sometimes sell a Child to pay the debt: Not that the one is tender of the life of the other, but out of care of himself.

  • These People are very loath to dye, and as much afraid of the Devil in their sickness, whom at such times they chiefly invoke.

  • We were within forty paces of them; when they saw us they were amazed at us, and as much afraid of us as we were of them.

  • Of these we were as much afraid as of the other.

  • I am so much afraid that my honored son has allowed himself to get over-excited.

  • I am so much afraid, my dear, that you will make some mistake before you get accustomed to the position that you have attained.

  • I am so much afraid that I shall turn into a stone.

  • As long as I was on the road, and it was a long time, your apprehensions, I am much afraid, were awakened not so much in proportion to the real magnitude of the danger, as to the exquisite sensibility of your own feelings.

  • Are you so much afraid of me, young man," he replied, "because I am here accused and a prisoner?

  • So much afraid of me that you had once to set this baby between me and--shall we say--possible danger?

  • If you're so much afraid, why don't you come yourself?

  • The king is well pleased or much afraid, or he would not have sent these garments of steel.

  • But then she said, "Look in your heart and you will see you are not so much afraid as you think.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    long moment; much alike; much astonished; much beauty; much delicacy; much delight; much elongated; much finer; much improved; much inferior; much interest; much kindness; much love; much misery; much nicer; much occupied; much respect; much respected; much right; much sugar; much taken; much trouble; much troubled; much water; must judge; well spent