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Example sentences for "fear lest"

  • But now I fear lest my father take thee to wife, for he loveth thee and I saw in him signs of desire for thee: so what wilt thou say, if he wish this?

  • For the description is so general, that I fear lest I should be at a loss to recollect of whom you are speaking.

  • I fear lest it should draw forth his displeasure.

  • Maupeou, who seemed to fear lest I should by any indiscretion, reveal our secret, made a signal of impatience; to which I replied, by shrugging up my shoulders.

  • I fear lest when I come again, God bring me low among you, and I be constrained to bewail many of them which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and wantonness which they have committed.

  • For I coupled you to one man, to make you a chaste virgin to Christ: But I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve, thorow his subtlety, even so your wits should be corrupt from the singleness that is in Christ.

  • I fear lest, bereft of the melody of the dove of heaven, ye will sink back to the shades of utter loss, and, never having gazed upon the beauty of the rose, return to water and clay.

  • I fear lest, bereft of the melody of the dove of.

  • And Pharaoh said, Let me alone, that I may kill Moses;o and let him call upon his LORD: verily I fear lest he change your religion, or cause violence to appear in the earth.

  • O my father, verily I fear lest a punishment be inflicted on thee from the Merciful, and thou become a companion of Satan.

  • This will be easier, that men may give testimony according to the plain intention thereof, or fear lest a different oath be given, after their oath.

  • They answered, O LORD, verily we fear lest he be precipitately violent against us, or lest he transgress more exorbitantly.

  • I came with my brother from the land of Hejaz and I fear lest he know not where I am.

  • But Omar answered, 'I fear lest it be a fault about my neck on the Day of Resurrection.

  • Except thou prevent thy son and do me justice on him, I fear lest both of you sink together, thou and he.

  • For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not.

  • If my father should feel me, and perceive it, I fear lest he will think I would have mocked him, and I shall bring upon me a curse instead of a blessing.

  • But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

  • Verily, I fear lest, if I go down with thee into the deep a creature of this kind fall in with me and devour me.

  • He said, "Verily, your taking him away will grieve me; and I fear lest while ye are heedless of him the wolf devour him.

  • So shalt thou see the diseased at heart speed away to them, and say, "We fear lest a change of fortune befall us.

  • I fear lest a chastisement from the God of Mercy light upon thee, and thou become Satan's vassal.

  • For I fear lest I burn with the desire and love of my Lord, more or less than I ought.

  • Therefore one ought to forego fraternal correction, when we fear lest we may make a man worse.

  • I fear lest in the morning he suddenly come to my door when I have fallen asleep wearied out.

  • My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

  • I fear lest it droop and drop into the dust.

  • The wind was momentarily increasing, and I began to fear lest I should have taken my last look at the old craft, when my attention was called off by hearing a loud voice cry out, 'Halloo there!


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