What is "afear"

Usage examples of "afear".

An Indin burial place had been disturbed, the earth was bleeding from the massacre of birds and gators, and the Mikasukis was afeared that bad spirits of their old enemies might be set loose.

Darby that no one need ever be afeared of ghosts if he only had the courage to face thim.

And they will the sooner set upon you, by reason of your comelinesse and audacity, in that you are not afeared at any time to walke in the streets.

The Beare running about the house, to make such of the family afeared as fortuned to wake and come out.

Then the old woman rendring out like sighes, began to speake in this sort : My daughter take a good heart unto you, and bee not afeared at feigned and strange visions and dreams, for as the visions of the day are accounted false and untrue, so the visions of the night doe often change contrary.

I stayed there, stick-frozen, afeared you were declining illand unknowing what to do.

Saint Kevin if he cud, but mind ye, the blessed saint was so well beknownst to all the counthry, that the divil was afeared to tackle him.

An Indin burial place had been disturbed, the earth was bleeding from the massacre of birds and gators, and the Mikasukis was afeared that bad spirits of their old enemies might be set loose.

Then the old woman rendring out like sighes, began to speake in this sort : My daughter take a good heart unto you, and bee not afeared at feigned and strange visions and dreams, for as the visions of the day are accounted false and untrue, so the visions of the night doe often change contrary.

Darby that no one need ever be afeared of ghosts if he only had the courage to face thim.

And they will the sooner set upon you, by reason of your comelinesse and audacity, in that you are not afeared at any time to walke in the streets.

But she knew Quintal had killed her husband, and she was afeared she might take her revenge on him.

I used to be afeared to let the little ones go into the water, but bless ye, I soon got over that!

I am afeared too the poor lady will be brought to break her heart, for she is as tender-hearted as a chicken.

But even after the pain had gone away completely, she had been too afeared to take a single step on her foot, or examine it closely.