Perhaps she had no reason to fear these trees that whispered their secrets above her head as she passed.

The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.

but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.

Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

Sherman insisted that cavalry could not successfully break up hostile railways, yet Garrard's Covington raid and Rousseau's Opelika raid cut two-thirds of the rail lines he had to break and Sherman lived in mortal fear of what Forrest might do to his communications.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.

Warren thought of all the men out that night who, like himself, had left their protective ridge and -- fear working at their guts -- picked their way into the area beyond.

A dreadful fear entered my consciousness that perhaps he had entertained aspirations toward Viola's favors -- or, even more serious perhaps, that he had attained a share of them and had then been superseded by some luckier chap.

The result, dramatically visible in a matter of days in the family's disrupted daily functioning, was a phobic-like fear that some terrible harm would befall the second twin, whose birth had not been anticipated.

It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.

She had skipped her lunch hour in the fear that he might call while she was out.

A second scene flashed before his mind, the interior of the garage at the new house and the young Bartlett girl turning startled to meet him, the dim dark and the sudden confusion and fear and then the brightness as Mae had clicked on the light.

`` Well '', remarked one gentleman who had been forced to accompany his wife, `` the good Lord can eat where angels fear to tread ''.

The states of Thessaly, which had previously acknowledged the authority of Jason of Pherae, were not so willing to submit to Alexander the tyrant, ( especially the old family of the Aleuadae of Larissa, who had most reason to fear him ).

The look of a man who stood above all others, but who carried a monstrous burden and who every minute had to fear for his life and the lives of those closest to him.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

" Whether Johnson's description was entirely truthful or embellished is unclear, but it seems likely that Teach understood the value of appearances ; better to strike fear into the heart of one's enemies, than rely on bluster alone.

He was a favorite of the people on account of his noble descent and handsome presence, and thus became an object of fear to Herod, who at first sought to ignore him entirely by debarring him from the high priesthood.

Josephus noted, " Antigonus ... came to Caesar ... and accused Hyrcanus and Antipater, how they had driven him and his brethren entirely out of their native country ... and that as to the assistance they had sent Caesar into Egypt, it was not done out of good-will to him, but out of the fear they were in from former quarrels, and in order to gain pardon for their friendship to enemy Pompey.

The contest ended, however ; public interest had grown cold, absorbed entirely by the Lutheran question, and Reuchlin had no reason to fear new attacks.

He was entirely free from fear.

O ' Rourke suggests that something of a fear of that ending is subtly implied at the end of the poem, although, unlike the other great odes, in this poem the person of the poet is entirely submerged, so there is at most a faint hint of Keats's own possible fear.

Although not entirely dim-witted and occasionally crafty, they are portrayed as miserable beings, hating everyone including themselves and their masters, whom they serve out of fear.

They insist that Iran was ruled entirely by fear ; bribery was still prevalent, taxation overpowering and Iran's 136-man National Assembly, the Majlis, and the Cabinet solidly puppetized.

The Dainty China Country is entirely filled with creatures of china, who would freeze into figurines if removed ; the China princess lives in fear of breaking, because she would never be as pretty even if repaired.

I have planned fifty years of activity in the motion picture business, which I fear I will not live to carry out entirely.

It allowed the slaves ' owners to do entirely as they wished to their slaves, including mutilating them and burning them alive, without fear of reprisal.

Polybius tells us that " King Philip V captured Bylazora, the largest town of Paeonia, and very favourably situated for commanding the pass from Dardania to Macedonia: so that by this achievement he was all but entirely freed from any fear of the Dardani, it being no longer easy for them to invade Macedonia, as long as this city gave Philip the command of the pass ".

In truth, however, it is Punch who is the biggest powder keg of them all – he has been known to experience blackouts which he cannot account for his presence, and the fear that he lives his life in is constantly growing ... the fear that the Counterpunch side of his mind could one day become dominant and take over entirely.

They seemed to be entirely random victims, and their brutal deaths violated the social ideal that law-abiding people who lived decent lives and worked hard had nothing to fear.

" On the other hand, some newspapers develop entirely different names for their TMC products and may exclude or downplay their own name for fear their name might strike a negative chord with non-subscribers.

His mother, the Duchess of Suffolk wrote to Lord Burghley that ' my wise son has gone very far with my Lady Mary Vere, I fear too far to turn '.

She even asked Joseph Stalin directly why he had slaughtered so many Russians, but many of her criticisms were translated into innocuous statements instead, leading many of her conservative supporters to fear she had " gone soft " on Communism.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

In 2007, Perry made the following comments on self-censorship in The Times: “ The reason I haven ’ t gone all out attacking Islamism in my art is because I feel real fear that someone will slit my throat ” ( Jihadist violence cows " fearless " artists into silence ), a reference to Theo van Gogh.

By the time of that election, in 1832, he had already gone into exile for debt, of which he was in constant fear of being arrested for by the time of his contest.

Bunnicula has gone missing and Chester begins to fear for the town again.

Again he discussed his ideas, and about ten days later she wrote: " When I am with you I think all melancholy thoughts keep out of my head but since you are gone some sad ones have forced themselves in, of fear that our opinions on the most important subject should differ widely.

The project was eventually canceled by the Air Force in January 1959, seemingly out of fear of a negative public reaction and the risk to the population should anything have gone wrong with the launch.

Again he discussed his ideas, and about ten days later she wrote, " When I am with you I think all melancholy thoughts keep out of my head but since you are gone some sad ones have forced themselves in, of fear that our opinions on the most important subject should differ widely.

Writing about the case in a 2004 book on perceptions of racial violence, sociologist Jonathan Markovitz concluded " it is reasonable to suggest that Brawley's fear and the kinds of suffering that she must have gone through must have been truly staggering if they were enough to force her to resort to cutting her hair, covering herself in feces and crawling into a garbage bag.

In the last chapter of the book and after the destruction of the peach, it is revealed that the Ladybug, who had been haunted all her life by the fear that her house was on fire and her children all gone, married the head of the New York Fire Department and lived happily ever after with him.

In January 1643, he had gone to his own county to " raise such men as had the fear of God before them, and made some conscience of what they did ".

In a report by the Jamestown Federation, dealing with the topic of the ( extremely positive according to the report ) reception of John McCain's statements about Russia's " double standards in the Caucasus " ( referring to how Russia recognized South Ossetia but would not let Chechnya go ), one Chechen was quoted to have gone so far as to tell the website that Chechnya " cannot exist within the borders of Russia because every 50 years ... Russia kills us Chechens "., demonstrating local fear of the Russian government.

Michael, like Kyle, now has a gripping fear of the dark, and is thought to have gone insane.

Once the fear of attack from the Americans was gone, in the 1820s businessmen established lumber and grist mills on the banks of the Chateauguay River.

With his belief in her powers gone, he turns the tables on the Witch by instilling the same fear in her of his smile that he used to have of her magic.

When Sport and Jeb decide to go home, for fear that their parents will be worried, they learn that their parents have decided to divorce and hadn't even missed them while they were gone.

Stella had gone berserk due to her fear of dying and her mobile suit is then destroyed by Kira Yamato.

Their families in the Philippines were reported to have gone into hiding during the proceedings for fear of reprisals by agents hired by the Ming Lines.

Kali has accompanied with him also two witch-doctors: M ' Kunje and M ' Rua, in fear that they not plot against him while he is gone from his home.

He has gone out on a date with Gant earlier, which ended somewhat awkwardly due to Schofield fear that Gant wouldn't want him because of his eyes and deciding not to kiss her at the end.

Monroe maintained that it had been Wellman who shot his father and stated that he had gone with his father to the station to collect money, and that they had been unarmed :" Probably the motive for killing was fear.

The glory days of Malaysian football in the 1970s and 80s, when names like Mokhtar Dahari, Santokh Singh and Soh Chin Aun would strike fear in teams all over Asia and Malaysia used to beat South Korea and Japan are gone.