Homes were being foreclosed, layoffs were occurring daily, and the days ahead were filled with fear and uncertainty.

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Everyone started to run to the window and what we saw filled me with fear.

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We saw each other, but my mother was filled with the fear of slipping into domestic life and sabotaging her own career.

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In a statement read out to court, Mr Pistorius said that he was "filled with horrible fear" that someone had sneaked in through an open window of the bathroom in the dead of night.

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This evening it is harder to imagine the horror of a 13thcentury sea battle, the timber-clash and slaughter, than the young Marco, 27 years earlier, filled with the fear and curiosity that begins all great journeys, sailing off between these islands for the Far East.

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His books are filled with a tension between the desire to know and fear of what knowing will cost.

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