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Afraid

adjective

Filled with fear or apprehension. "Suddenly looked afraid" , "Afraid for his life" , "Afraid of snakes" , "Afraid to ask questions"

Filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement. "He was afraid he would have to let her go" , "I'm afraid you're wrong"

Feeling worry or concern or insecurity. "Terribly afraid of offending someone" , "I am afraid we have witnessed only the first phase of the conflict"

Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness. "Afraid to show emotion"

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"Afraid" Quotes from Famous Books

... I am afraid I shall tire you with my Indian stories; but you must bear with me patiently whilst I give you a few more. The real character of a people can be more truly gathered from such seemingly trifling incidents than from any ideas we may form of them from the great facts in their ...

— Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie

... enemy except under exceptional circumstances of picked officers, picked men, ground, distance, safety, etc. Even in maneuvers its execution is farcical. There is not an organization in which the soldiers do not hurry the command to fire in that the officers are so afraid that their men will anticipate the command that they give it as rapidly as possible, while the pieces are hardly in firing position, often while they are still ...

— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq

... thing he would have thought of actually happened. The buck lost interest in the man, and turned all his attention to the bear, which was just now about seven or eight feet from the ground, hugging the great trunk and letting himself down carefully, like a small boy afraid of tearing ...

— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts

... knows this, the devil feels this, and the children shall have the comfort of it afterwards. I say, the time is coming when they shall know that even then, when they knew it not, they had an Advocate with the Father; an Advocate who was neither loath, nor afraid, nor ashamed, to plead for their defense against their proudest foe. And will not this, when they know it, yield them comfort? Doubtless it will; yea, more, and of a better kind, than that which flows from the knowledge that one is born to ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... some one might stumble upon it, and raise an alarm, this fellow Joceline will never be fit for any active purpose till it is under ground. Though as stout as a lion, the under-keeper has his own weak side, and is more afraid of a dead body than a living one. When do you propose to ...

— Woodstock; or, The Cavalier • Sir Walter Scott

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