Nonetheless, Francis greatly admired his uncle, if rather feared him.

I was afraid something like this would happen.

Fadil feared for Layla's future.

Her mother resisted sending McClintock to college, for fear that she would be unmarriageable.

Tom was afraid he might be laid off.

He feared the aristocracy and believed they might turn against him if he abolished serfdom.

I was frightened of her. I felt like a child.

Oliver Sacks I was afraid you'd ask that.

Such was his courage that he feared nothing.

Everybody was afraid that something bad was gonna happen.

I was afraid that it might hurt her feelings.

I feared he'd go and take his silences with him, and take his secrets with him.

She was afraid the letter might fall into the wrong hands.

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Bergman refused to host Kafka because he had young children and was afraid that Kafka would infect them with tuberculosis.

There was also fear that the blankets might block the infrared vertical sensor, which oriented the module for reentry.

By 1997 she had become very weak, was speaking and eating very little, and it was feared she would die.

Personality Kafka feared that people would find him mentally and physically repulsive.

In fact, it is rumoured that Okita feared his swordskill.

Reportedly, Prince Louis fell deeply in love but, because of what in those days was seen as her ignominious station in life, his father would not permit the marriage.

Early Muslim armies stayed in encampments away from cities because Umar feared that they might get attracted to wealth and luxury.

Augustine was afraid though that if someone did not step into the office immediately, it would damage the missionary efforts in Britain.

Newton had been reluctant to publish his calculus because he feared controversy and criticism.

When I asked her if she feared anything, or whether she would miss anything from Mathare, she said, What would I fear that I haven't confronted already?

In Slavic and Chinese traditions, any corpse that was jumped over by an animal, particularly a dog or a cat, was feared to become one of the undead.

The gifts and diplomatic efforts of Geiseric, who opposed and feared the Visigoths, may also have influenced Attila's plans.

Jones also wanted to change the track's title to Not My Lover , as he believed that people would think the song referred to the tennis player Billie Jean King.

He also feared that he might be poisoned, so the Mother of the King assumed supervision of the Royal Kitchen.

According to Plutarch, Alcibiades feared and reverenced Socrates alone, and despised the rest of his lovers .

Esmeralda is also misjudged because she is a gypsy, the people of Paris believe she is evil but like Quasimodo, she is filled with love and kindness.

Chaos broke out, and Tirel fled the scene for France, either because he had fired the fatal shot, or because he had been incorrectly accused and feared that he would be made a scapegoat for the King's death.

Edward I was reportedly concerned with his son's failure to live up to the expectations of an heir to the crown, and at one point decided to exile the prince's favourite Piers Gaveston.

Oppenheimer feared that the high cliffs surrounding the site would make his people feel claustrophobic, while the engineers were concerned with the possibility of flooding.

When his cook died mysteriously, he feared that someone would poison him, and began hoarding food in his room.

Privately, he feared opposition from the other German princes and military intervention from Austria or Russia.

According to information published by Carta Capital magazine , during private depositions Malhães had testified that he feared for his life.

The former favored merging with the UAR, while the latter feared the new country as a satellite of Communism.

By the end of the book, Dumbledore and Harry set out to the cave where Dumbledore believes a Horcrux resides.

In the film, she acts as the main antagonist to the hero Perseus for the mistreatment of her son Calibos.

It was believed that the Japanese nuclear weapons program was not far advanced because Japan had little access to uranium ore, but it was initially feared that Germany was very close to developing its own weapons.

' And I don't think he felt he had that yet ... My problem was that I feared a slippery slope.

It was cancelled in 2001 before its release, citing the competitive nature of the massively multiplayer online gaming market Electronic Arts feared the sequel would harm Ultima Online's subscription numbers.

Well, we seem to have dodged the deadly pandemic this year that most of us feared, but this threat could reappear at any time.

Those who feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.

The USSR argued that the Convention's definition should follow the etymology of the term, and may have feared greater international scrutiny of its own Great Purge.