The exterior, storm door was still locked, however, and she was afraid to break it open.
Because she was afraid of her black relatives showing up and exposing their secret.
Frankie had become an unjoined person who hung around in doorways, and she was afraid.
Exxon was afraid of the high pressures and temperatures it was encountering down hole.
She was afraid that if she went home, she would not want to come back.
He told the Daily News he fled because he was afraid he'd be killed.
He was afraid that a monumental blow out like Macondo could bankrupt his company.
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He was afraid to declare that it was time to go back to a more normal existence.
With a mix of dread and envy, one developer admitted he was afraid to talk about Roski.
He said the British government was afraid of them turning up in the decades after the war.
"We had just bought the home and I was afraid we would ruin it, " my friend said.
He was afraid they would have the power to stifle any online venture that offered serious competition.
He was afraid he would lose his heart if he was not able to sing like a woman.
One radio journalist told us that she was afraid to go on the air with more bad news.
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They discussed nutrition and mood-stabilizing drugs, but Anna was afraid that an antidepressant might make her become fat.
"I was afraid he was going to fall in love with it the way I did, " he said.
Mr. Cosby says he was afraid to say "hell" on stage when his mother was in the audience.
He got emotional talking about his family, saying he was afraid he would not get to come home.
He was afraid to take the lead on this issue until he felt it could be politically justified.
As a child, I was afraid of everything: escalators, heights and New Orleans cockroaches the size of pralines.
"After my last match I wasn't that fresh, so I was afraid of what would happen, " Radwanska said.
Cullen, the original Columbine debunker, theorizes that the public was afraid to believe Harris and Klebold weren't total outcasts.
She was breathing so hard she was afraid the stars could hear her.
The irony is, of course, that I was afraid to post this post.
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One visitor said he had come because he was afraid it would be his last chance to see the art.
" Paula didn't tell her more, Corbin said, because "I think Paula was afraid that it would hurt her mother.
But David Charles, from the GMB union in Leeds, said he was afraid workers would be "left on the scrap heap".
But he was afraid of falling asleep and dropping into the gator-filled water, so he duct taped himself to a branch.
Either the boss resented the idea that someone would dare leave or he was afraid of the signal it might send.
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