fear-haunted

With an almost Dickensian exuberance they revealed beneath the well-ordered surfaces of Stockholm a seamy and fear-haunted network of criminals, exploiters and victims — not to mention the harried and at times bureaucratically stymied police force.

International Crime Fiction Geoffrey O'Brien 2010

These animals without courage, these fear-haunted, pain-driven things, without a spark of pugnacious energy to face torment, — they are no good for man-making.

The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

A report from Baghdad's fear-haunted literary cafes.

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 As'ad 2005

The fear-haunted expression in Thalma's eyes brooked no delay.

Omega, the Man Lowell Howard Morrow

And so they reached Morley's cabin and entered, like ghosts, into the fear-haunted place.

A Son of the Hills

Mrs. Conboy, standing at the edge of the sidewalk before her door, not more than ten yards from the spot where Morgan was making these unaccountable preparations, leaned with a new horror in her fear-haunted eyes to see.

Trail's End George W. Ogden

Away from the red glare, the shadows concealed their secrets from the fear-haunted eyes, but only for a moment.

Joyce of the North Woods

But if Momaya could view with intrepid heart an excursion into the jungle and a visit to the fear-haunted abode of Bukawai, she was not likely to be deterred by threats of future punishment at the hands of old Mbonga, whom she secretly despised.

Jungle Tales of Tarzan 1919

'Twas the face, I thought, of a virgin martyr with a fear-haunted look hard to forget.

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

Sleep, and fain would I have started up, but, even then, sleep seized me, and strive how I would my eyes closed and I fell into deep and fear-haunted slumber.

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915