in fear and trembling

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Cliché with anxiety or fear; with dread. In fear and trembling, I went into the room to take the test. The witness left the courtroom in fear and trembling.

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Going out to sea in fear and trembling is not what we're asking them to do," French maritime official Pierre-Alain Carre told AFP. Somali pirates wreak havoc with maritime traffic by AFP / AFP Global Edition Of late, it has been mercifully quiet; several times over the course of the past three years, however, it has risen to such a pitch that the entire nation stood in fear and trembling, and this was exacerbated only because our government told us we were right to be terrified. On chatter by William, Henry / Verbatim In Beckett's writing, aloneness becomes the very condition under which we live, less in fear and trembling than with a new kind of happy-go-lucky despair. Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction by Boxall, Peter / Yearbook of English Studies More results

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Going out to sea in fear and trembling is not what we're asking them to do," French maritime official Pierre-Alain Carre told AFP.

Somali pirates wreak havoc with maritime traffic by AFP / AFP Global Edition

Of late, it has been mercifully quiet; several times over the course of the past three years, however, it has risen to such a pitch that the entire nation stood in fear and trembling, and this was exacerbated only because our government told us we were right to be terrified.

On chatter by William, Henry / Verbatim

In Beckett's writing, aloneness becomes the very condition under which we live, less in fear and trembling than with a new kind of happy-go-lucky despair.

Solitude and its Ambiguities in Modernist Fiction by Boxall, Peter / Yearbook of English Studies

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