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However, tonight Madame Babushkinov was on her very best behavior, full of warmth and charm, while the children ate in fearful silence.

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Bears do live in the woods, and Penelope was both excited and fearful, and about either fact there can be no doubt.

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She was fearful for the children, but she was also furious to the point of being in very high dudgeon indeed.

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The attack in Kebbi State highlights the persistent security crisis plaguing the region, leaving families in Maga in a state of fearful exhaustion as they wait and hope for their daughters' safe return.

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If there is one unavoidable criticism of Ms. Wade’s enjoyable book, it is that she seems fearful of offending her subject.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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