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Simple sentences
That was a fearful scene.
And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
I'm very fearful of death. But by fearing it, I'm not preventing it - I'm just making life more difficult for myself.
You will see fearful shapes in darkness, and wicked voices will whisper in your ear, but they will not harm you, for against the purity of a little child the powers of Hell cannot prevail.
Movie subtitles
For quite a while Recha had had Thoughts about her wonderful salvation filled with fearful dreams.
That's a fearful price.
Frightened of thunder, fearful of the dark.
The cunning of Frankenstein in his mountain laboratory, picking dead men apart and building up a human monster so fearful and so horrible that only a half-crazed brain could have devised.
I, myself, unable to keep pace with his mental quirks and fearful of assault. turned down an opportunity to represent him as his attorney.
It is a fearful truth.
Would I leave you at such a fearful moment?
It is indeed a fearful place.
Fearful lot of stuff piled up while Maxim was away.
Givin' the sick a soon start to die, makin' the well dark-eyed and fearful.
And then it started like a guilty thing upon a fearful summons.
I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
I'm surprised how fearful I'd been before. earful of the tumor that destroys your sight.
Only the fearful can know the value of courage.
Your words' meaning, but this is not possible. Her lips asked for mercy, incoherently they stammered the old song of fearful resistance.
It's a fearful thing to send a man's soul to perdition. but I am bound by my conscience. and my love of my king to deal out justice.
I, myself, unable to keep pace with his mental quirks and fearful of assault, turned down an opportunity to represent him as his attorney.
For instance why the normally fearful exhibition manager didn't react to our letter at all!
Thy father, so fearful of water That he trembled in his bath.
Mrs. Rowan is s little fearful of burglars.
I had been fearful.
I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason. In fact, I would.
They say no words that I can remember. and yet. they're voices filled with a fearful longing'.
A fearful combination.
But, unlike normal death, no peace manifests itself for they enter into the fearful state of the undead.
A fearful lot of stuff piled up while Maxim was away.
God's arm strike with us, 'tis a fearful odds.
She's having a fearful time.
And I am a most fearful man, sahib.
He takes advantage of the fearful.
But I will plan a pitchy day for thee. and I will buzz abroad such prophecies. that Edward shall be fearful ofhis life. And then, to purge his fear. I'll be thy death.
Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks. 10,000 men that fishes gnawed upon. wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl. inestimable stones, unvalued jewels. all scattered at the bottom of the sea.
Oh, let me think on Hastings. and be gone to Richmond while my fearful head is on.
The leisure and the fearful time cuts off the ceremonious vows of love. which so long sundered friends should dwell upon.
O Ratcliffe, I have dreamed a fearful dream.
He's a bit fearful, but charming.
So fearful, and yet why is it I'm not afraid anymore?
News and current affairs
Global warming is one of those rare instances where the scientific community is more fearful of what may be happening than the population at large.
But in order to be consciously fearful you have to have a sufficiently complex kind of brain, one aware of its own activities.
What can American Tea Party enthusiasts, Russian chauvinists, fearful Dutch and Danes, and Singaporean leftists possibly have in common that is driving this anti-immigrant sentiment?
They are nostalgic for the past and fearful of globalization.
The fundamental problem that much of the world faces today is that investors are overreacting to debt-to-GDP ratios, fearful of some magic threshold, and demanding fiscal-austerity programs too soon.
Even their tax-averse sponsors, while appreciative of the rabble's efforts to protect their wealth, are now fearful of the impact of these wayward ideas on the investment climate and equity prices.
Yet neighbors are also the most fearful of challenging one of their own.
A local court, prompted by shocked and fearful public opinion, decided that the display of swastikas, distribution of leaflets, and the wearing of Nazi uniforms should be banned.
But the mainstream reaction has been much more fearful: media and politicians throughout the European Union are obsessing about the threat of waves of migrants reaching their borders.
Fearful of challenging the armed terrorists, the international bodies that govern Kosovo prefer to appease them.
Should the world really be more fearful than hopeful?
A government impressed by past national achievement, but fearful of being overtaken and deeply worried about its own legitimacy, is likely to look for an outlet in foreign policy to mobilize domestic support or ward off opposition.
They have made Americans fearful and found a willing co-conspirator in the Bush administration.
If Israel was not just a fearful nation oppressing the Palestinian people, but the source of all evil, any form of violence, however destructive of self and others, could be justified.
Indeed, the North Korean threat nowadays derives more from the regime's internal weaknesses than from its aggressive external posture - the latter being the authorities' fearful response to the former.
Fearful of a relapse of end-market demand in a still-shaky post-crisis world, Asian policymakers have been reluctant to take an aggressive stand for price stability.
Hindus, Ahmadiyyas, and tribal people in the Chittagong hills, fearful for their safety, have been leaving the country in droves.
When people are fearful, they tend to be more risk-averse and thus more likely to stick with the status quo.
The conservative economist responds that it is precisely because the government has become so free with taxpayers' money that households, fearful of future taxes, are hunkering down and increasing savings.
If a lazy and fearful Europe did not want Turkey, so much the worse for Europe; history was offering more glorious alternatives to the Turks.
European leaders, fearful of a popular backlash, are once again devising novel ways to reject, rather than help, some of the most vulnerable people on the planet.
The OAS can involve itself in domestic electoral, political, or human rights issues only if a majority of its members mandates it to do so, and countries like Mexico and Brazil are fearful of picking fights with Venezuela.
To protect itself, Pakistan's desperate military establishment, fearful of being labelled a proliferator and of ultimately being deprived of its nukes, has chosen to sacrifice Dr. Khan.
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