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Meanings of first fear in English

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Usage of first fear in English
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The first fear was awakened in Graeme by a very little thing.
Janet's Love and Service
2
Newt's first fear when the cloud hit was that he would suffocate.
Lonesome dove
3
Not that it matters much now; I have got over my first fear.
Allison Bain; Or, By a Way She Knew Not
4
Aimée was standing rigid and wary, ready for flight at the first fear.
The Fortieth Door
5
Since that first fear-filled meeting, we have experienced a paradox.
Feminist dot com
6
And the first fear is normally about losing a parent.
Radio NZ
7
His first fear was lest his intellect should be affected.
Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design...
8
His nerves shook with a boy's first fear of battle.
The Shagganappi
9
Although we can't control first fear, we have the ability not to 'add' second fear.
Radio NZ
10
Her first fear had been right; her brooch had but added to the murderer's temptation.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
11
Night-wandering beasts-foxesand owls and hedgehogs-knewhis footstep and unlearned their first fear of it.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
12
The company complained to the Commerce Commission in July 2018, stating its first fear was safety.
Radio NZ
13
Chilo, noticing that Ursus looked at him as a perfect stranger, recovered from his first fear.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
14
Ruth had recovered in a measure from the first fear she had felt of the marauding panther.
Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp; Or, Lost in the Backwoods
15
I bounce on the balls of my feet as I wait for the first fear to appear.
Divergent
16
Those words placed in a new light Mr. Rayburn's first fear that her intellect might be deranged.
Little Novels
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