Fear Sentence Examples

For a long time he wandered in fear from place to place.

Maybe her fear of her father was wrong.

Cold fear spiraled through her.

We fear it, frankly, because we do not understand it.

The sea shore is too far to the east so I fear she'll be remanded to a roadside bier of Kudzu and discarded fast food wrappers.

You should fear this boy.

Fear clutched at her heart with cold fingers.

She stared at him, fear clutching at her heart.

My heart was in my mouth and I saw fear on Martha's face.

She looked up, fear and anger flashing through her.

For the first time since he began his sick games, Jenn felt genuine fear trickle through her.

I think her biggest fear was that she'd lose him.

Choking down fear, she climbed inside and sat down in the luxurious leather seat.

Her heart was pounding and it wasn't only fear of the storm.

I could no longer hide my fear.

They did not smile nor did they frown, or show either fear or surprise or curiosity or friendliness.

He understood her fear.

She purposely kept her thoughts of what was to come—and her fear for Jule—at the back of her mind, instead filling it with her willingness to learn her trade.

Then came the arrest, and with it the fear of being questioned by the police.

There was nothing else to fear.

Fear clutched at her throat.

Despite her fear, she wrapped her arms around him.

Jennifer asked, a hint of fear in her voice.

Right now she wanted to go there — to get away from this fear.

Punishment and fear were not; nor were threatening words read On suspended brass; nor did the suppliant crowd fear The words of their judge; but were safe without an avenger.

There was no reason to feel so overwhelmed with emotion – specifically fear.

She returned to her bunk and lay down, cold fear filling her.

The village elder, a peasant delegate, and the village clerk, who were waiting in the passage, heard with fear and delight first the young count's voice roaring and snapping and rising louder and louder, and then words of abuse, dreadful words, ejaculated one after the other.

You, peaceful inhabitants of Moscow, artisans and workmen whom misfortune has driven from the city, and you scattered tillers of the soil, still kept out in the fields by groundless fear, listen!

A cold shiver went down his spine just thinking about it; a primal fear of dark and dank places.

A sinking feeling of panic swept over them, a temporary paralyzing fear.

He knew in a situation like this fear and panic were their worse enemies.

When the fear finally subsided, in its wake was a fierce determination.

While she didn't fear dying anymore, she was in no hurry to die, either.

It's a one way visit, and that is what you fear most, the possibility you turn into what you hate.

The man in the white lab coat, Ully, jerked from his hunched position over a keyboard, and fear flashed in his eyes.

She stepped away, sweating from whiskey and fear.

She straightened her shoulders, determined to approach her fate without fear.

An impish fear clutched my hand, so that I could not write any more that day.

Once again fear squeezed her stomach.

Sensing her fear, he touched her arm, the edge of tension dissipating.

She was trying hard to keep her fear away so she could figure out this new world.

Shock or maybe fear put the words in her mouth when the woman answered.

He didn't want her to fear him.

While he didn't want his death-dealers to fear him, he also recognized the look in her eyes and those of the assassins behind her.

Fear flashed through her at the memory of what someone his size could do to her.

The coldness of fear within her grew stronger.

He'd tried to block all memories of a happier time for fear he'd never see such times again.

Happiness, fear, awe … The gloves were off this night.

Her face felt hot as her fear turned to anger.

She couldn't let her sense of hope seize her for fear of being devastated.

You can ask the court for an order of restraint against your husband and stop him from coming anywhere near you if you're in fear of the man.

Sometimes I fear my mind may be going as I often pretend my circumstances are far different than they truly are.

I long to share my secret with the one I so love, but then fear and doubt overtake me before the words will leave my lips.

And why would he fear his stepfather.

With each day, the fear was growing.

Fear trickled through her as she recalled the amount of pain trusting someone could cause.

There would be no more doubt or fear that he would one day leave her.

Her fear was growing.

My monolog was blurted out non-stop for fear she'd cut me off before I finished.

The heat of her anger vanished, replaced by fear.

It wasn't horror on his face, nor fear.

This part he kept silent for fear of spooking someone he was supposed to be leading.

The demons and Immortals don't need to fear what they don't know.

Harmony gripped his arm, fear crossing her face.

She'd felt the same loss of control and fear when first diagnosed as terminal.

With a deep breath, she crossed through the clinging cold, at a run by the time she reached the other side out of fear the portals might all disappear before she was safe.

He'd been ignoring the extent of the power available from the souls for fear of violating the Code, which he now understood was not binding in the face of a threat like Darkyn.

She didn't ask for fear of discovering he was going to stop playing his keep-away game and offer her an arrangement she couldn't refuse.

As if sensing her fear, Darkyn held out his hand once more.

The coldness of fear settled into Deidre.

She was shaking, cold with fear on the inside and fevered skin clammy on the outside.

They gazed at each other for a long moment, her shock and exhaustion too deep to fear the man who radiated power and control, even in a simple T-shirt.

And yet, she had without fear.

Though she tried hard not to fear death, she wondered what kind of creature was capable of breaking through bars made of materials she'd never before seen and held in place with some sort of magic.

Even when she knew she was dreaming, she couldn.t wake herself up or shake the fear that this time, Rhyn wasn.t going to come.

The distance to the beach was short in her dream, her body full of fear and adrenaline.

Any fear she might have felt disappeared when he rested his hand on her neck and brushed her cheek, then her lips, with his thumb.

Fear made the wind seem colder.

Fear fluttered through her, and her gaze flew to Kris, whom she trusted little more than his sadistic brother.

Rhyn gazed at her, and her whole body responded despite her fear.

The door swung closed behind her, and fear trickled through her.

He.d sensed Katie.s appearance in the castle a short time ago and had avoided going directly to her, for fear he wasn.t quite ready to say what he needed to.

Jade couldn.t bring himself to ask about the vial for fear of giving himself away.

She didn.t want to sleep for fear of the demon from her nightmares—or Gabriel—coming for her.

Rhyn watched, not wanting to leave for fear of being alone.

By the time she returned to the large row house, she was looking forward to an addition to their home who may not fear killing spiders and other bugs.

It didn't spin webs and looked more to Evelyn like a mutated cat, but the moment she recalled Kiera's fear, she also realized that the cat-like creature would easily pass as a large spider.

Kiera took two steps back, shuddering in disgust and fear.

She passed through the throng without making eye contact for fear of leers or judging looks and reached the entrance foyer.

His incredible strength, heat, and scent calmed her fear as much as they excited the woman within her.

A light shined in her face, and she twisted, fear piercing her misery.

She had nothing to fear from these people, especially not Mansr, a blood relative of A'Ran and his sisters.

One minute she's in fear of her life, the next she's enthralled over Annie Quincy, dreaming about life a century ago.

If the man was her husband, she didn't seem in fear of him up on the mountain when I saw them talking.

He tried to get her to seek a court order against Shipton if she was in fear of him, or, at the very least talk to an attorney.

Now, a look of fear crossed her face.

She moved like a somnambulist, so trance-like Dean hesitated to speak for fear of startling her.

I fear for his reputation if we be discovered but I have never been happier than next to him, beneath the buffalo robe that covered us.

Mrs. Cummings was taken away to the Sister's hospital this forenoon and I fear she shan't ever return.

Then there was Cynthia's recent additional fear.

It was as if every fear he'd ever encountered paled before the idea of descending even a few feet closer to the edge that yawned before him.

So he'd have to stuff something in the poor woman's mouth for fear she'd scream or cry out before she died.

As he pulled her out of the bar, her eyes wide with fear, the boyfriend tried to stop him.

He braced himself for the fear or disbelief that did not come.

No doubt Katie was going to say something about short people and thought better of it for fear of hurting feelings.

For the first time she knew fear of him.

Brady's chest had tightened at Dan's words, and he felt fear for the first time since he was a kid in basic training and had his first brush with his own mortality.

Shaking with fear for Brady, she watched them cut through the skin grafts and transfuse blood then jump his heart.

His shove almost drove her to her knees again.  She steadied herself and looked up in time to see him disappear into the jungle.  Fear made her heart pound.  The strange path he'd been following appeared ahead of her, revealing itself only a few steps at a time.  She started at a walk and quickened to a jog, making sure the path wouldn't close and trip her.  The path kept up with her, and she ran.

Fear made Rhyn's chest seize.  No sooner had Gabe spoken the words than the demons fell away.  Coldness snapped over Rhyn, and his surroundings blurred.  He blinked, uncertain what happened until he found himself standing in a dimly lit chamber.  Kris and Gabe were still beside him, and instead of demons, there was only Death.

Perhaps Byrne was afraid someone would connect him to the theft, a fear that would be eliminated by his "death"—a fear that was turning out to be well founded.

Two... what is your greatest fear about getting married?

I guess my greatest fear is that he will be disappointed in me.

Gone was the fear.

She'd never let fear stand between her and a mission.

There were no sounds, no sights underground, no sensations aside from the scent of his own fear and the feeling of earth closing in around him.

Her breathing was hard, her wild look one of pure anger and fear.

But while I am with you, you need only fear me.

Not the kind of fear one experienced when falling from a horse, but a soul-deep fear that wrapped around her core.

A cold chill of fear swept through her.

Fear increased her pulse.

It was tempting to tell her that he wasn't really back – to talk to her about the fear that lay in her heart.

The idea of anyone hurting her cousins filled her with fury and fear.

The air conditioning was high enough to make her shiver, the bright interior settling her fear of walking into some crazy person's house.

Selecting the largest, she went to the pristine sink area, almost afraid to run water for fear of leaving water marks in the stainless steel.

She was watching him, fear and uncertainty on her features.

A treasonable senate secretly plotting his dethronement, a mutinous diet rejecting the most necessary reforms for fear of "absolutism," ungrateful allies who profited exclusively by his victories - these were his inseparable companions during the remainder of his life.

In the spring of 323 he moved down to Babylon, receiving on the way embassies from lands as far as the confines of the known world, for the eyes of all nations were now turned with fear or wonder to the figure which had appeared with so superhuman an effect upon the world's stage.

There is some reason to hope that the day of these misconceptions is passed; although there is also some reason to fear that on other grounds the present era may be known to posterity as an era of instrumentation comparable, in its gorgeous chaos of experiment and its lack of consistent ideas of harmony and form, only to the monodic period at the beginning of the 17th century, in which no one had ears for anything but experiments in harmonic colour.

The occupation, effected on the 5th of February, was accelerated by fear lest Italy might be forestalled by France or Russia, both of which powers were suspected of desiring to establish themselves firmly on the Red Sea and to exercise a protectorate over Abyssinia.

In fear of reprisals Antipas (or Antipater), the Idumaean, his counsellor, played on the fears of Hyrcanus and persuaded him to buy the aid of the Nabataean Arabs with promises.

They are superstitious, and worship with hearty veneration any being or thing whose destructive agency they fear.

The calm confidence of their Moravian fellow-passengers amid the Atlantic storms convinced Wesley that he did not possess the faith which casts out fear.

By the patient study of the behaviour of precocious young birds, such as chicks, pheasants, ducklings and moorhens, it can be readily ascertained that such modes of activity as running, swimming, diving, preening the down, scratching the ground, pecking at small objects, with the characteristic attitudes expressive of fear and anger, are so far instinctive as to be definite on their first occurrence - they do not require to be learnt.

In 1800, when a frost-bitten thumb gave him great pain and much fear for his life, his friend, Rev. Philip Oliver of Chester, died, leaving him director and one of three trustees over his chapel at Boughton; and this added much to his anxiety.

A scheme was set on foot for the improvement by canalization of the Cape Fear river above Wilmington under a Federal project of 1902, which provided for a channel 8 ft.

But the source even of these - the passions of ambition and avarice - he finds in the fear of death; and that fear he resolves into the fear of eternal punishment after death.

Although the title of the poem implies that it is a treatise on the "whole nature of things," the aim of Lucretius is to treat only those branches of science which are necessary to clear the mind from the fear of the gods and the terrors of a future state.

The very few Ottoman guns which had been causing the freshly disembarked troops a good deal of annoyance during the 7th had been withdrawn for fear of capture, the defenders fully expecting a forward move by the Allies.

The opposition of the United States was due very largely to the fear that Great Britain would acquire a privileged position in regard to the proposed interoceanic canal.

It was said at court that she liked the demonstrative homage of crowds; but she had good reason to fear lest her child should be taken away from her to be educated according to the views of George IV.

Darnley stood aloof, in fear and anger.

Hence he attains salvation, being delivered from sin and fear and death, for the divine attributes are not ontological entities to be discussed and defined in the schools, but they are realities, entering into the practical daily life.

By him they felt themselves freed from sin and fear - and under the influence of a divine power.

Christianity has passed through too many changes, and it has found too many interpretations possible, to fear the time to come.

Some places, such as Bidi in Sarawak, for instance, are notoriously unhealthy; but from the statistics of the Dutch government, and the records of Sarawak and British North Borneo, it would appear that the European in Borneo has in general not appreciably more to fear than his fellow in Java, or in the Federated Malay States of the Malayan Peninsula.

Early in November with colder weather it began to decline; and in December there was so little fear of contagion that those who had left the city " crowded back as thick as they fled."

It may be concluded, with some confidence, from experience and theory alike, that localities where they do not prevail may fail to keep plague out, but have very little to fear from it, except the disturbance of trade caused by the traditional terrors that still cling to the name.

He was especially anxious as the units which had suffered heavily during the last offensive were but newly filled with fresh drafts, and he had found reason before to fear the influence of some of the men fresh from the depots.

All fear being now removed, the Danish king and his followers pass the night in Heorot, Beowulf and his comrades being lodged elsewhere.

For instance, the word 4 6/30s, which in Homer means " flight in battle " (not " fear "), occurs thirty-nine times in the Iliad, and only once in the Odyssey; but then there are no battles in the Odyssey.

Even the French epics are pervaded by the sentiment of fear and hatred of the Saracens.

But, be this as it may," the doctrine of karma is certainly one of the firmest beliefs of all classes of Hindus, and the fear that a man shall reap as he has sown is an appreciable element in the average morality.

The Sakta cult is, however, known to be especially prevalent - though apparently not in a very extreme form - amongst members of the very respectable Kayastha or writer caste of Bengal, and as these are largely employed as clerks and accountants in Upper India, there is reason to fear that their vicious practices are gradually being disseminated through them.

At the same time one also meets with frank avowals of a superstitious fear lest any irregularity in the performance of the obsequial rites should cause the Fathers to haunt their old home and trouble the peace of their undutiful descendant, or even prematurely draw him after them to the Pitri-loka or world of the Fathers, supposed to be located in the southern region.

Many were only kept back from going to church ` by the fear that their neighbours would think them superstitious or narrow-minded.

Thenceforward the German bishops became mere officials, as in France, and Rome had no cause to fear the opposition of another Febronius.

But Seneca's fear lest Nero's sleeping passions should once be roused were fully verified, and he seems to have seen all along where the danger lay, namely in Agrippina's imperious temper and insatiable love of power.

Her first object was the final ruin of Agrippina, and by rousing Nero's jealousy and fear she induced him to seek her death, with the aid of a freedman Anicetus, praefect of the fleet of Misenum.

The haunting fear of conspiracy was skilfully used by them to direct Nero's suspicions against possible opponents.

The officers were called to meet at Newburgh, and it was the avowed purpose of the leaders of the movement to march the army westward, appropriate vacant public lands as part compensation for arrears of pay, leave Congress to negotiate for peace without an army, and "mock at their calamity and laugh when their fear cometh."

His firmness in thwarting the activities of Edmond Charles Edouard Genet, minister from France, alienated the partisans of France; his suppression of the "Whisky Insurrection" aroused in some the fear of a military despotism.

Another widespread reason for avoiding flesh diet altogether was the fear of absorbing the irrational soul of the animal, which especially resided in the blood.

The same fear of imbibing the irrational soul of animals, and thereby reinforcing the lower appetites and instincts of the human being, inspired the vegetarianism of Apollonius of Tyana and of the Jewish Therapeutae, who in their sacred meals were careful to have a table free from blood-containing meats; and the fear of absorbing the animal's psychic qualities equally motived the Jewish and early Christian rule against eating things strangled.

He that has put off all lust and desire, all hope and fear, all will to exist as a sinful, because a sentient, being, has won to the heaven of extinction or Nirvana.

He complained that exhortation was wasted even on the bishops, "because they despair of attaining to the pinnacle of chastity, and have no fear of condemnation in open synod for the vice of lechery....

Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly pleaded before the council of Constance in 1415 for the reform of "that most scandalous custom, or rather abuse, whereby many [clergy] fear not to keep concubines in public."

His body was interred in the secrecy of night, for fear of outrage from the Parisians, by whom his name was cordially detested.

Moreover, the fear of Henry was sufficient to make the French king refuse to allow one who was attainted by act of parliament to remain in the kingdom; so Pole passed over to Flanders, to wait for the possible arrival of any royal deputies.

In 1542 he had been appointed one of the presiding legates and had written in preparation his work De concilio; and now in 1545, after a brief visit to Rome, he went secretly, on account of fear of assassination by Henry's agents, to Trent, where he arrived on the 4th of May 1545.

The military adventurers, who have often risen to high or even supreme rank in Peru, have not seldom been of mixed race, and fear or favour has often availed to procure them an alliance with the oldest and purest-blooded families.

As a rule, they do not climb trees; but when pressed by fear, as during an inundation, they have been known to do so.

Relieved from all fear of Spanish attacks from the north, the new republic of Chile entered upon a period of internal confusion and dissension bordering upon anarchy.

Instead of keeping still, so I could eat him comfortably, he trembled so with fear that he fell off the table into a big vase that was standing on the floor.

They allow for easy return of merchandise that doesn't meet my expectations, decreasing my fear of making a bad purchasing decision.

I knew it, it was the odour that always precedes a thunderstorm, and a nameless fear clutched at my heart.

Our hearts beat fast, and our hands trembled with excitement, not fear, for we had the hearts of vikings, and we knew that our skipper was master of the situation.

In these years the fear came many times to Miss Sullivan lest the success of the child was to cease with childhood.

I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.

And the fear of death and of the stretchers, and love of the sun and of life, all merged into one feeling of sickening agitation.

One soldier, in his fear, uttered the senseless cry, "Cut off!" that is so terrible in battle, and that word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic.

Death, wounds, the loss of family--I fear nothing.

She forgot all fear of her father, went up to him, took his hand, and drawing him down put her arm round his thin, scraggy neck.

His eyes, screwed up with fear as if he every moment expected another blow, gazed up at Rostov with shrinking terror.

The horse first, regardless of whether it was right or wrong to show fear, snorted, reared almost throwing the major, and galloped aside.

This state of things is continually becoming worse and makes one fear that unless a prompt remedy is applied the troops will no longer be under control in case of an engagement.

I think the best advice I can give, is try to understand that everything she does and says initially comes from fear and shock.

Do not take her words or her fear to heart.

Sarah's fear rooted her.

She then turned and sauntered towards Victor, not a hint of fear in her carriage "Hello, Victor" His greeting was returned with a hiss, "Elisabeth!"

Jackson marched toward the door, his face twisted with pain and fear.

Sensing her fear, he moved closer, his teeth bared in an ugly snarl.

Was it fear or the heady feeling of his strong arms that left her shaken?

Or was it fear?

The sadness she felt as his truck disappeared down the road was borne of fear.

What could be so terrible about Alex that his own sister would fear to discuss with her best friend?

Her breath caught, and cold fear trickled through her.

Fear fluttered through her, and she shook her head.

She studied him with more interest than fear, even if she did push herself into the corner again.

With him, she had nothing to fear.

Lana, on the other hand, couldn't shake the paralyzing fear that came with knowing they were being stalked by men who wanted them dead.

She forced herself out of her fear and leaned forward.

The strain on his face was clear, and a tremor of fear crept through her.

He didn't have three more days' worth of control.  The idea he'd likely explode before Death delivered Katie made him feel fear, an emotion he hated and hadn't felt until responsible for the life of someone he cared about.

Dean let her talk on, not interrupting her with questions for fear the tears would start.

Yes, those city bad boys might continue to kill one another but the innocents of this fair city had little to fear for their own.

He had risen to fear, heartache, anxiety, bliss, pain and a hundred other feelings that made you beg to be able to bury your head beneath the covers and stay in the warm cocoon of sleep forever.

She buried her face into his chest, shaking with fear.

She half-heartedly tried to twist around him to get away, squealing with mock fear as his arms captured her.

The calf could be injured, and she might develop a fear of those caring for her.

She pushed away the faceless fear.

That gnawing fear had made its way into the dining room and it was lurking around the edges of his conversation.

If the child picked up on her fear, it could cause him worse problems.

Now that they were back in sync, would this unexplainable fear wedge itself between them?

Even if she could explain, he wouldn't understand the gnawing fear that drove her from their favorite spot.

For a little while, she even forgot about the fear, but as they rose from the window seat, her gaze was drawn back to the chair.

In spite of her resolve to purge the fear from the living room, it increased until it threatened to take over the entire house.

If she didn't face that nagging fear, she was going to lose the two people she cared about most — Alex and Jonathan.

With each step, the fear grew, until when she lowered herself into the chair, her heart was pounding in her ears.

Gradually the fear began to abate.

But he couldn't know that the fear was retreating further with each minute.

He crouched beside her, his cold smile filling her with a fear unlike any she'd felt before.

Immobilized, fear rose within her as she watched the Black God lift Darian's bloody form from the ground.

The look on his face made her want to hug him and ease his fear.

He came stoutly, the only among them not immobilized by fear.

He sensed their fear.

The black memories that made him wake up screaming at night, the fear he could still taste in moments of despair, were softened by the sense of stillness that settled into him.

Her heart quickened again, and her palms grew sweaty from what she knew was fear.

She couldn't let it stop her now, though this kind of fear was far different than that of losing her life or failure on a mission.

Jenn's gaze went to Sofi's protruding belly, and she was hit with both urgency and fear.

Jenn shook her thoughts away, her heart hammering with both anticipation of seeing him again and fear.

Jonny's voice held a note she couldn't place but it sounded almost like fear.

His words sent a tremor of fear through her.

The moon is a fickle lover, like a beautiful woman…she gives her whole heart but once a month and leaves you before dawn…why fear you the night?

Allin. I began to fear my brother would be next assigned to the Warlord's guard.

I know you fear nothing but the underground, and I will send you there for all of eternity if you refuse my command!

I fear being away from Tiyan for too long, she replied.

As he gazed around, he realized the people fought for Tiyan, fought for her, not out of duty or fear but out of respect and gratitude.

Rissa sobbed into her hands, pain, fear, exhaustion, and frustration bubbling uncontrollably.

She nudged her horse, taking in the scene with growing anger and fear.

I compiled this for my dear Rissa, but I fear the demon will prevent me from giving it to her.

He understood the depth of her fear.

Fear made his insides cold.

Megan felt a twinge of fear.

She froze with fear and his voice raised an octave.

Yet, for whatever reason, she had been willing to endure her fear alone.

A cold fear clutched at her throat.

Fear didn't make a person a coward.

How a person dealt with that fear was the measure of their strength - and she was coming up short on the yardstick.

Until she met that fear head on, she could never feel good about herself.

You fear for your own life, Watcher?

Cold fear filtered through her, taking her breath away at the image he painted.

Fear slid through her.

Jessi watched him go, fear seizing her chest as she realized how dangerous he was.

Fear flew through her.

Panic stirred within her, along with cold fear.

Xander didn't remember what fear felt like.

Maybe the level of discomfort he experienced about having something in his life not fully under his influence was what Jenn attributed as fear in hers.

A tremor of fear went through Jessi.

Eden told me my mother's love for me was greater than her fear of the consequences of living in the streets, Xander said.

For a long moment, her fear held her captive.

It wasn't fear, she realized, but reality.

Sorrow, desire, fear, desperation – all spun and solidified into an ache unlike anything she'd ever experienced.

Jessi's breathing was deep; he'd worn her out and had no fear of her waking up with his quiet movements.

After a surprised silence, fear crossed her features.

She gazed around Ashley's room, her fear and sorrow so deep, they hurt.

As deputy he had no vote, and he naturally took little share in the debates, but it was part of his duty to send written reports of the proceedings to his patron, since the government, with a well-grounded fear of all that might stir popular feeling, refused to allow any published reports.

Alexius rejoiced at this welcome change, but he had cause rather to fear it.

He was tried on the 6th of November and was guillotined on the same day, with a smile upon his lips and without any appearance of fear.

John Aubrey, the antiquary, chronicles that the sisters of Sir John Suckling, the courtier-poet, once went to the bowling-green in Piccadilly, crying, "for fear he should lose all their portions."

Just as in 335 he had crossed the Danube, so he now made one raid across the frontier river, the Jaxartes (Sir Dania), to teach the fear of his name to the outlying peoples of the steppe (summer 328).

Notwithstanding their complete subjection, women are treated with a certain respect, and are often employed as intermediaries in the settlement of feuds; a woman may traverse a hostile district without fear of injury, and her bessa will protect the traveller or the stranger.

Of this singular contract, which is signed, "Robert Logane of Restalrige" and "Jhone Neper, Fear of Merchiston," and is dated July 1594, a facsimile is given in Mark Napier's Memoirs.

Napier frequently signed his name "Jhone Neper, Fear of Merchiston."

By them he was to be ordained, after vowing to be true in office, faithful to the church system, obedient to the laws and to the civil government, and ready to exercise discipline without fear or favour.

The members accidentally discovered that the fear of it had a great influence over the lawless but superstitious blacks, and soon the club expanded into a great federation of regulators, absorbing numerous local bodies that had been formed in the absence of civil law and partaking of the nature of the old English neighbourhood police and the ante-bellum slave patrol.

In fear lest he should be outflanked by Uluch Ali, he stood out to sea, leaving a gap between himself and the centre.

The fear was as to whether the statutory number of 80,000 votes necessary for the acceptance of the bill would be reached.

The anecdotes believed and circulated by the royalists that Cromwell died in all the agonies of remorse and fear are entirely false.

He was naturally compassionate towards objects in distress even to an effeminate measure; though God had made him a heart wherein was left little room for fear,.

He hid himself in the Dominican convent at Leipzig in fear of popular violence, and died there on the 4th of July 1519, just as Luther was beginning his famous disputation with Eck.

Prussia, while satisfied at the fall of the temporal power, seemed to fear lest Italy might recompense the absence of French opposition to the occupation of Rome by armed intervention in favor of France.

Fear of the advent of a Radical administration under Rattazzi alone prevented the Minghettian Right from revolting against the government.

The conduct of Italy in declining the suggestions received from Count Andrssy and General Ignatiev on the eve of the RussoTurkish Warthat Italy should seek compensation in Tunisia for the extension of Austrian sway in the Balkansand in subsequently rejecting the German suggestion to come to an arrangement with Great Britain for the occupation of Tunisia as compensation for the British occupation of Cyprus, was certainly due to fear lest an attempt on Tunisia should lead to a war with France, for which Italy knew herself to be totally unprepared.

Robilants opposition to a precipitate acceptance of the Austrian hint was founded upon fear lest King Humbert at Vienna might be pressed to disavow Irredentist aspirations, and upon a desire to arrange for a visit of the emperor Francis Joseph to Rome in return for King Humberts visit to Vienna.

In the long and important debate upon foreign policy in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (6th to 9th December) the fear was repeatedly expressed lest Bismarck should seek to purchase the support of German Catholics by raising the Roman question.

The sudden fall of Gambetta (26th January 1882) having removed the fear of immediate European complications, the cabinets of Berlin and Vienna again displayed diffidence towards Italy.

Religion began in fear - as if it were no more than a lying superstition.

The religion consists of fear of the spirits of the wood, the sea, disease and ancestors, and of avoidance of acts traditionally displeasing to them.

An electuary of opium, known as Mithradatum, was invented by Mithradates VI., king of Pontus, who lived in constant fear of being poisoned, and tested the effects of poisons on criminals, and is said to have taken poisons and their antidotes every day in the year.

At Saragossa Peter Arbue, a canon and an ardent inquisitor, was slain in 1485 whilst praying in a church; and the threats against the hated Torquemada made him go in fear of his life, and he never went abroad without an escort of forty familiars of the Holy Office on horseback and two hundred more on foot.

In what proportion zeal for the ancient canons and the rights of others, and jealous fear of encroachment upon his own jurisdiction, were mixed in the motives of Leo, it would be interesting to know.

Among the people she had always been intensely disliked; the love of justice, and the fear of trade losses imminent upon a breach with Charles V., combined to render her unpopular.

Here he held several councils for the discussion of the affairs of the church, especially for grave questions as to the rebaptism of heretics, and the readmission into the church of the lapsi, or those who had fallen; away through fear during the heat of the persecution.

Where a title attracted my eye, without fear or awe I snatched the volume from the shelf."

In 1761 Gibbon, at the age of twenty-four, after many delays, and with many flutterings of hope and fear, gave to the world, in French, his maiden publication, an Essai sur l'etude de la litterature, which he had composed two years before.

All, however much or little preoccupied with worldly business, must fear God, from whom come good things and evil, life, death, poverty and riches.

As one of those who fear the Lord in truth and in patience, he looks forward to the punishment of all sinners who oppress the righteous and profane the sanctuary.

Of all the Sanhedrin only Sameas " a righteous man and therefore superior to fear " dared to speak.

As he was reading the Law at the feast of tabernacles he burst into tears at the words " Thou mayest not set a stranger over thee which is not thy brother "; and the people cried out, " Fear not, Agrippa; thou art our brother."

The church, it was conceived, needed defence against the synagogue at all hazards, and the fear that the latter would influence and dominate the former was never absent from the minds of medieval ecclesiastics.

With a touch of vanity he expressed the fear lest "the coolness of fancy that attends advanced years should make me risk the reputation I had acquired."

At the eastern extremity of the Coastal Plain Region an outer coast line is formed by a chain of long narrow barrier beaches from which project capes Hatteras, Lookout and Fear, whose outlying shoals are known for their dangers to navigation.

Between Hatteras and Lookout is Raleigh Bay and between Lookout and Fear is Onslow Bay; and between the chain of islands and the deeply indented mainland Currituck, Albemarle, Pamlico and other sounds form an extensive area, especially to the northward, of shallow, brackish and almost tideless water.

In the swamps are the bald cypress, the white cedar and the live oak, usually draped in southern long moss; south of Cape Fear river are palmettos, magnolias, prickly ash, the American olive and mock orange; along streams in the Coastal Plain Region are the sour gum, the sweet bay and several species of oak; but the tree that is most predominant throughout the upland portion of this region is the long-leaf or southern pine.

The Roanoke river is navigable to Weldon and the Cape Fear river to Fayetteville; the Neuse is navigable for small vessels only to Newbern.

The northern section was first called Albemarle, then " that part of our province of Carolina that lies north and east of Cape Fear," and about 1689 North Carolina.

But the assembly, the members of which were nearly the same as those of the congress, refused to interrupt the meeting of the congress, and in the next month the governor sought safety in flight, first to Fort Johnson on the Cape Fear below Wilmington and then to a man-of-war along the coast.

Those who believe the " Declaration " to be spurious argue that survivors remembered only one such document, that the Resolutions might easily be thought of as a declaration of independence, that Governor Martin in all probability had knowledge only of these and not of the alleged " Declaration," and that the dates of publication in the Raleigh and Charleston newspapers, and the politics of those papers, show that the Resolutions are authentic. In July 1905 there appeared in Collier's Weekly (New York) what purported to be a facsimile reproduction of a copy of the Cape Fear Mercury which was referred to by Governor Martin and which contained the " Declaration "; but this was proved a forgery.'

However, there was a speedy reaction against the oppositon which had in no small measure been inspired by fear of a requirement that debts be paid in gold and silver.

Forced to flee by the treachery of the very men whom he had succoured, he lived for a time in constant fear of being captured by Saul, and at length took refuge with Achish king of Gath and established himself in Ziklag.

He was in constant fear of assassination and distrusted all around him.

Fitzherbert, in deploring the gradual discontinuance of the practice of marling land, had alluded to the grievance familiar in modern times of tenants "who, if they should marl and make their holdings much better, fear lest they should be put out, or make a great fine or else pay more rent."

On the other hand, the small farmers who occupied separated holdings were deterred from improving by the fear of a rise in rent.

It remained to make good those promises and to disarm the fear and jealousy of the great powers.

He soon convinced himself that western Europe had nothing to fear from Charles, and that no bribes were necessary to turn the Swedish arms from Germany to Russia.

Several creeks and the upper Cape Fear river furnish considerable waterpower, and in or near Fayetteville are manufactories of cotton goods, silk, lumber, wooden-ware, turpentine, carriages, wagons, ploughs, edge tools and flour.

Sultan Abd-ulHamid, on the other hand, pursued a settled policy of reducing the fleet to impotency, owing to his fear that it might turn against him as it had turned against Abd-ul-Aziz.