fearful
/ˈfɪɹfəl/ adjective B2- Frightening; causing fear.
- Tending to fear; timid. · a fearful boy
- Terrible; shockingly bad.
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“I am, at least, fearful of it.
The Bowman immediately shot out an arrow and said to the Lion: “I send thee my messenger, that from him thou mayest learn what I myself shall be when I assail thee.” The wounded Lion rushed away in great fear, and when a Fox who had seen it all happen told him to be of good courage and not to back off at the first attack he replied: “You counsel me in vain; for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the attack of the man himself?”
My fearful footsteps patter nigh,
“Only don’t say I didn’t warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well--I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and the whole family died in fearful agonies.
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