Afeard

Examples

• Don't ye be afeard for me, neighbours. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Faith, I was never afeard of nothing except Boney, or I shouldn't ha' been the soldier I was. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Yes, I be he; and it makes me afeard, said Christian. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Well, 'tis right to be afeard of things, if folks can't help it, said Grandfer Cantle. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Don't ye be afeard for me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But perhaps I shall win yet, and then I'll get a wife to sit up with me o' nights and I won't be afeard, I won't! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I've made but a bruckle hit, I'm afeard. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Mas'r Legree, I ain't a grain afeard to die. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I--I haven't got neither maid, wife, nor widder belonging to me at all, and I'm afeard it will make me laughed at to ha'e it, Master Traveller. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A fair stave, Grandfer Cantle; but I am afeard 'tis too much for the mouldy weasand of such a old man as you, he said to the wrinkled reveller. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• That depends on whether they be afeard. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Then I came down here, and I was afeard, and I went back; but I didn't like to speak to her, because of the gentleman, and I came on here again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• An' you may do as you like now, for I'm none afeard on you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Howsomever, I'll do the very best I can in gettin' Tom a good berth; as to my treatin' on him bad, you needn't be a grain afeard. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I'd ha' thought yo' a hypocrite, I'm afeard, if yo' hadn't, for all yo'r a parson, or rayther because yo'r a parson. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I told him it was no reason, because I was afeard of my life of you, that he should be. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I bain't afeard at all, I thank God! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I'm rather afeard o' going straight there without getting a good sleep in the grave to set me up. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Now, I say, gal, you needn't be a bit afeard, let who will come here. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I don't think I be afeard--or if I be I can't help it, and I don't deserve to suffer. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I wish I was not afeard at all! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Edited by Babbage