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Fearsomeness Deimos attendant of Ares; personification of fear. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 77] eerie tale of vampires and werewolves. [Br. Lit.: Dracula] Orson Welles’s broadcast; terrified a credulous America (1938). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 468] strongest, most feared of eastern confederacies. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 250] lawyer esteemed and feared by clients. [Br. Lit.: Great Expectations] holder of dread office of High Executioner. [Br. Opera: The Mikado, Magill I, 591–592] portrays oppressor and oppressed as both filled with fear. [Am. Lit.: Native Son, Magill I, 643–645] god of dread and alarm. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 14, 84] analyzes the fears of an official threatened with assassination and of seven condemned prisoners. [Russ. Lit.: Magill II, 957] lame tiger who wants to devour Mowgli; causes fear throughout story. [Children’s Lit.: The Jungle Book] |
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| For the fact that it was this said thirty-first cousin, Mr d'Urberville, who had fallen in love with her, a gentleman not altogether local, whose reputation as a reckless gallant and heartbreaker was beginning to spread beyond the immediate boundaries of Trantridge, lent Tess's supposed position, by its fearsomeness, a far higher fascination that it would have exercised if unhazardous. * Of The Ancient Mariner I have already told you, although perhaps it is too full of fearsomeness for you to read yet. Again and again, drinking in the strangeness and the fearsomeness of the world from her lips, I had heard her state that if one offended an Italian, no matter how slightly and unintentionally, he was certain to retaliate by stabbing one in the back. |
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