Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...impatient to start, that I am afraid I was for a moment disgusted with the honest skipper. He went up to the hotel, and soon returned with a suspiciously large lunch for one person. We took the little fishing-sloop that lay bumping against the pier, and started forth. The wind had freshened, and the sea was pretty rough. The Rosa was just in sight, and we bore down upon it with all sail, - which was one sail. I was trembling with excitement, and I could see that even the grim old captain was not indifferent to the emotions...
...ever paint? or rather, did you ever try? If not, come with me into our studio in S. 32, and take your first lesson, for I'm sure you will enjoy it. But why do you delay on the staircase? Don't be afraid if you are surprised, for you see only the material of that gigantic experiment for educating womankind. Come along, they have all gone out. This is not co-education, but after-co-education. Well, this is the place. Sit at the desk beside me, as Ralph is sick of the measles and will be away...
...quite afraid that it will rain...
This quality, without which very few men become successful, would seem to be sadly deficient among us. Men will not enter unless they are pretty well convinced that they will get a prize; in other words, they are afraid of failing. Cases are common at every meeting where men withdraw at the last moment because some one whom they did not expect, has entered. To win one race at Harvard has been sufficient, in the past, to scare all other competitors out of the field for that event, and the result has been continual "walk-overs" for the lucky...
...change in the cuisine has taken place, and I am afraid that these lines were not read in the right spirit by her to whom they were addressed; perhaps she never got them, - perhaps she used them for curl-papers, - perhaps (oh, bitter thought!) she cannot read...