afeard

• I'm afraid the whole country will go to rack and ruin if you leave him I'm afeard, yer honour, that I must leave the country to look after itself," answered Pat, with one of the broadest of his grins; "and as to axing the chief about the matter, I'm after thinking it will be better to take French leave, lest he may try to stop me. —  The Three Commanders
• "An' Daniel hed consid'ble trust an' warn't afeard--an' mebbe I won't be afeard nuther Daniel's Lions? —  Una Of The Hill Country 1911
• I ain't afeard--not I," he said again, glaring round like a bull at bay, and stripping an arm of iron strength I never cut your ropes, you brute," said Bruce, between his teeth, "though you wouldn't move when we asked you civilly What's that_, then?" —  Julian Home
• You ain't afeard, are you O, no; I like it The big waves now tossed the little vessel up and down like a feather, and the huge seas broke upon the bow, deluging her deck with floods of water. —  Now or Never The Adventures of Bobby Bright
• But she were so little an' young-like an' afeard, and I telled her that night--I telled her when she whispered that she were a goin' to have a baby, and said as how she couldn't stand bein' hurt--I says, 'Midge darlin', do it hurt the grass to grow jest 'cause the winds bend it double? —  From the Valley of the Missing

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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