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Example sentences for "feared lest"

  • In truth I remembered how the former one had brought ill-luck to the young sahib, and I feared lest he might take a fancy to this one also.

  • Being an arrant coward he feared lest a rescue party should be following on his trail, and he knew what trackers the Gurkhas were.

  • But as I feared lest you, Sir, would be giving way to anxiety, didn't I hurry along to arrive in good time?

  • The marchioness was handsome but old, and I feared lest I should be unable to perform the great act.

  • The sovereign pontiff delayed the signature of the bull, but his hesitation proceeded from the fact that in signing it he feared lest he should be signing his own sentence of death.

  • Ether 3:8 8 And he saith unto the Lord: I saw the finger of the Lord, and I feared lest he should smite me; for I knew not that the Lord had flesh and blood.

  • We can but try, excellency," I said, and at the words Raoul shivered and looked at me with such amazement that I feared lest an unlucky word should betray me.

  • He was not quite sure of his own heart; it had been so bound up in the one great object of his life, that he feared lest he were incapable of loving Minnie as she should be loved; he was perfectly unselfish.

  • I would not say these words when last we met; I feared lest I had mistaken a wilder, more evanescent feeling for this all-absorbing one; but our separation has proved me.

  • And, indeed, it was likely that he would come here also, as I had done, when he woke; so that when at last I heard footsteps I feared lest it should be he.

  • Give up your prisoners and arms, and you shall go free," answered Thormod, for he feared lest if any captives were left alive they would be slain if we fought.

  • The clock struck ten while I was speaking to Henry--I mean to Mr. Vand--and not knowing that it was so late I feared lest my brother should be angry.

  • I can't say, sir, unless he feared lest I should elope with Mr. Lister.

  • He feared lest Durgo's barbaric instincts should be aroused against the couple at the Manor-house.

  • He feared lest Huxham, in a rage at such disregard of his wishes, should slay the young journalist, and perhaps might, in his infernal cunning, lay the blame on Silas himself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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