quiet fears
Example Sentences
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Oscar Jaime Rodriguez, owner of a boardinghouse that is the de facto base camp for climbers in the valley, sought to quiet fears.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2012
Mr. Roosevelt endeavored to quiet fears that he might give away the Navy by remarking that the bill had nothing in it to prevent his standing on his head, either.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still she attempted to quiet fears that her new government would strike back at those she claims have persecuted her.
From Time Magazine Archive
That unlikely batch, in fact, helped quiet fears that federal participation in education meant federal tyranny.
From Time Magazine Archive
Horribly quiet fears had been stealing poisonously into his mind—a mind not given to timidities—and the word “melancholia” had assumed for him a morbid and irresistible compulsion.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
