FEAR in Classic Quotes

1  I fear he will be severe with you despite my pleadings.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

2  But you have asked me what was in my heart, and the fear of defeat is there.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

3  He loved me but he was afraid to marry me because--for fear I'd upset his way of thinking and living.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

4  That would be fatal, as only old men and very old ladies could belch without fear of social disapproval.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

5  I do not belong in this mad present of killing and I fear I will not fit into any future, try though I may.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

6  Now she had lost and, greater than her sense of loss, was the fear that she had made a public spectacle of herself.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

7  Now, her never- too-scrupulous sense of honor was dulled by repetition of the offense and even fear of discovery had subsided.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

8  Then, I fear, we will become like the Yankees, at whose money-making activities, acquisitiveness and commercialism we now sneer.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

9  As the whisperings merged together violently, questioning, interrupting, Scarlett felt herself go cold with fear and humiliation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

10  For I am fighting for the old days, the old ways I love so much but which, I fear, are now gone forever, no matter how the die may fall.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

11  The young ladies of the town, who were not permitted to nurse for fear they would see sights unfit for virgin eyes, had the convalescent wards in their charge.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

12  I am not afraid of danger or capture or wounds or even death, if death must come, but I do fear that once this war is over, we will never get back to the old times.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

13  She did not even feel his pinch, for she could hear clearly the sweet voice that was Melanie's chief charm: "I fear I cannot agree with you about Mr. Thackeray's works."

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

14  The sight of these men threw the County boys into a panic for fear the war would be over before they could reach Virginia, and preparations for the Troop's departure were speeded.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

15  Poor Pittypat had been quaking in her number-three shoes for fear of being blamed for Scarlett's forward conduct and would be the last to notify Ellen of her own inadequate chaperonage.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

16  When Dr. Fontaine told Ellen gravely that heartbreak frequently led to a decline and women pined away into the grave, Ellen went white, for that fear was what she had carried in her heart.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

17  They were completely fearless of wild horses, shooting affrays and the indignation of their neighbors, but they had a wholesome fear of their red-haired mother's outspoken remarks and the riding crop that she did not scruple to lay across their breeches.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I