I knew she was very fond of you; but yet I was afraid of her not estimating your worth to her brother quite as it deserved, and of her regretting that he had not rather fixed on some woman of distinction or fortune.
I was afraid of the bias of those worldly maxims, which she has been too much used to hear.
He had gone elsewhere, she told Jurgis--he was afraid to stay there now, on account of the police.
She was too good for him, he told himself, and he was afraid, because she was his.
He was afraid of this tremendous vote, which his party had not expected, and which it had not earned.
He was afraid to try to go through his companion's pockets, however; and besides the cabbie might be on the watch.
But he shook his head and showed all too plainly that he was afraid.
Still, I could not get on my feet and walk and I was afraid to lie still.
After that, though hours passed without sign of him, I was afraidto return to the island at all.
I was afraid you'd gone an' 'portioned out my visit to somebody else.
Gaffett was always brooding and brooding, and talking to himself; he was afraid he should never get away, and it preyed upon his mind.
Yours was loaded, and I was afraid of what Jack might do.
I was afraid he was ill, because--he was to have done something for me, and he had not come back.
The knocking had stopped, and I was afraid I was too late.
But I was afraid I was too weak to get down the stairs.
By the middle of April I had sold as many Testaments as I thought Madrid would bear; I therefore called in my people, for I was afraid to overstock the market, and to bring the book into contempt by making it too common.
I hadn't much time and I was afraid Mrs. Howett would find me.
He was afraid, then, of something or someone linked in his mind with the word Fire-Tongue.
I was afraid to move too far from the mouth of the tunnel, but nevertheless was anxious to obtain a good view of the little city at my feet.
His non-appearance at first alarmed me: I was afraid he might be dead, but, on looking into the tent, I found him still buried in the soundest sleep.
He reproached himself much, saying, he was afraid he had been my ruin, by teaching me bad habits.
I was afraidto open the letter, lest my expectation should be confirmed.
He never so much as asked me whether he was a Papist or Protestant, which was, indeed, what I was afraid of.
But when we arrived, he was afraid to come in--to come up here.
I was afraid he had given them marching orders; they 'd have been sure to go--they 're so awfully fond of his pocket!
That 's why I was afraid to tell Gordon--because when I was married I had such a lot of things; I was supposed to have dresses enough to last for a year.
I was afraid I had missed you, Horrocks," said the man at the window, gripping the window-ledge with his hand.
I know now that he was afraid of me, but at the time that did not occur to me.
He brought me some chops, and vegetables, and took the covers off in such a bouncing manner that I was afraid I must have given him some offence.
Janet looked a little surprised to see me lying stiffly on the sofa (I was afraid to move lest it should be displeasing to my aunt), but went on her errand.
He saw his vivid error, and he was afraid that it would stand before him all his life.
He was afraid to move rapidly, however, for a dread of disturbing it.
He was afraid to make an open declaration of his concern, because he dreaded to place some unscrupulous confidant upon the high plane of the unconfessed from which elevation he could be derided.
It was not that he was afraid of the goblins, but that he was afraid of their finding out that they were watched, which might have prevented the discovery at which he aimed.
He still followed winding it, and still it led him into more thickly populated quarters, until he became quite uneasy, and indeed apprehensive; for although he was not afraid of the cobs, he was afraid of not finding his way out.
He was afraid of catching cold I dare say, and invented this trick for getting out of it.
She could have bitten her tongue out the minute she had said it, for John pushed the books away and got up, saying with a little quiver in his voice, "I was afraid of this.
I don't remember much about it, except that I was afraid of the cellar and the dark entry, and always liked the cake and milk we had up at the top.
I was afraid it was so, and imagined your poor little heart full of lovelornity all that while.
It was getting late, and I was afraid if it wasn't done right away that I shouldn't have it done at all, and you know when I start to do a thing, I hate to give it up.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "was afraid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
