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  • The character of Lebrun in A Way in the World, who is depicted in a half-admiring and half-fearful way as a prophet of black power, is also rooted in a portrait of James.

    Cruel and Unusual 2008

  • The character of Lebrun in A Way in the World, who is depicted in a half-admiring and half-fearful way as a prophet of black power, is also rooted in a portrait of James.

    Cruel and Unusual 2008

  • He had felt himself vacillate, half-fearful of her reaction.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • He had felt himself vacillate, half-fearful of her reaction.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Neither spoke until the task was completed and Ursula lay hi rigid half-fearful silence.

    She Closed Her Eyes 2010

  • He had felt himself vacillate, half-fearful of her reaction.

    Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010

  • Fey, wild, full of half-fearful fancies she doesn't trust Tuesdays and wearing one blue and one slightly off-colored blue sock, Undine is the last girl in Hobart you might expect to be ...magical.

    Archive 2007-08-01 tanita davis 2007

  • Fey, wild, full of half-fearful fancies she doesn't trust Tuesdays and wearing one blue and one slightly off-colored blue sock, Undine is the last girl in Hobart you might expect to be ...magical.

    The WritingYA Weblog: Breathing Underwater, Part II tanita davis 2007

  • Aye, full of youth and with an adventurous and yet half-fearful heart.

    The Night Land 2007

  • Her voice dropped to a half-excited, half-fearful whisper.

    Oh My Goth Gena Showalter 2006

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