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1  No blooming fear of that, my boy.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
2  It would be all right, never fear.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
3  Sometimes, however, he courted the causes of his fear.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
4  I crammed my mouth with stirabout for fear I might give utterance to my anger.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
5  He comforted her feebly, telling her not to cry, that it would be all right, never fear.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
6  It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE SISTERS
7  He set off briskly along the northern side of the Green hurrying for fear Corley should return too soon.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In TWO GALLANTS
8  I went up the slope calmly but my heart was beating quickly with fear that he would seize me by the ankles.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
9  He was undecided about the lines from Robert Browning, for he feared they would be above the heads of his hearers.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD
10  But I disliked the words in his mouth and I wondered why he shivered once or twice as if he feared something or felt a sudden chill.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
11  He moved his head slowly to right and left and from the manager to the person on the floor, as if he feared to be the victim of some delusion.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In GRACE
12  I could not find any sixpenny entrance and, fearing that the bazaar would be closed, I passed in quickly through a turnstile, handing a shilling to a weary-looking man.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In ARABY
13  When they came out of the Park they walked in silence towards the tram; but here she began to tremble so violently that, fearing another collapse on her part, he bade her good-bye quickly and left her.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
14  We banded ourselves together, some boldly, some in jest and some almost in fear: and of the number of these latter, the reluctant Indians who were afraid to seem studious or lacking in robustness, I was one.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
15  But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.
Dubliners By James Joyce
ContextHighlight   In THE DEAD