Word: fear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...looked up, with alarm, fear, and astonishment mingled in her face. Seeing Ching, she took courage. "You are too good," she said, "but I cannot tell you - you could not help...
...Truly, thought, like fear and suspicion, is essentially communicable...
...College papers have so often petitioned for new courses without achieving even the moderate success of having their petitions posted as "requiring further explanation" that we take up our stylograph with fear and trembling, even though it be only to ask the admission of the undergraduate student to a course already given in College; our reference is to Superlative Economy 1. When we were a Sub-Freshman we derived great pleasure and profit from the perusal of a little volume entitled "Ye Proverbes of Beniamin Franklin," and made up of such choice maxims as these, "Economic is Wealthe," "A Penny...
...fright was simply the web of a monstrous tropical spider. The moonlight, gleaming on the threads, contrasting with the dark foliage around, had given it the unearthly appearance; and the breeze had made it move to and fro in the ghostly manner that had capped the climax of my fear...
...where I learned to ride. As I had never been on a bicycle before, my instructor mounted me very carefully on a machine, and steadying with his hand my wavering movements, we began laboriously to move about the hall. My confidence grew rather faster than my skill, I fear. It seemed so easy. I was sure I needed no assistance. I dismissed my attendant. Proud, happy moment! I rode all alone. But a sense of the awful responsibility of the situation began to creep over me. A queer, unnerving sensation of uncertainty as to where I'd be next stole...