Johnny was not "afeard" -- he was only thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cressy] Reference

"Put him aout y'rself, 'f ye a'n't afeard on him!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference

"Is that Solomon?" she says, pretending to be afeard.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNet - Past Nearly Men] Reference

Bad the good comrades forward go, nor ever be afeard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days] Reference

"Johnny's sick, Mr. Bowen, an 'purty bad, I'm afeard.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

Langland was "afeard of her face though she was fair.".    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

Get all the rest afeard to stay aboard, and come back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference

All that espied the queen, and that made her sore afeard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference

Nay -- afeard of the short sword the Roman soldier carries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas Light] Reference

Ab, with a leer, said: "Gosh, I was afeard she'd get lost.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

Father had been took up, and so we wasn't afeard of nothin '.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Our Guy' or, The elder brother] Reference

I am much afeard my lady his mother played false with a smith.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merchant of Venice] Reference

Hemenway, 'says I, for I was afeard she might be disapp'inted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

I ain't milked one for forty years, but I'm not afeard to try.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference

"Go your length, Bill," he said, "I ain't afeard of the expense.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference

"I wor afeard he'd jump overboard, or try to do somethink awful!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference

I was afeard she'd strike a low limb or somethin 'an' git smashed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

Nay, said Sir Gareth, I will not flee though thou be afeard of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference

"Yes, I'm afeard so," said the captain, looking around over the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

Took hold o 'my nose dreffle bad; I'm afeard my stomach'll be a goner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

"Why I've diskivered what I war most afeard on," answered the woodsman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life] Reference

"I'm afeard o 'these," said he, and eyed them mistrustfully in his palm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference

I didn't understand a word on 't, and, besides that, I was afeard on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference

'Oh,' says I, 'Majesty, I'd be afeard ov hurtin' ye, without the gloves. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829] Reference

Examples of obsolete words: methinks yesterwhiles twixt yclept afeard shoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Grammar and Composition] Reference

Then somethin 'spoke agin louder, and says:' Don't be afeard, Pete, it's me. '.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Our Guy' or, The elder brother] Reference

I lay still there for hours, afeard to move for fear I'd meet him comin 'back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference

And he 'ad one great pecooliarity: he was everlastingly afeard of getting old!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

But she began then to enter into so great rauing, as euery body was afeard of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

"She has had a good day, but the doctor, he -- the doctor is afeard she is dying.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference

Then when Abelleus heard this, he was more afeard, and yielded him and asked mercy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference

'She need not be afeard of it, however,' said the third, 'for 'twill never be no worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camilla] Reference

But they ain't afeard of nothin 'on two laigs or four -- or that flies in the air, neither.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mission of Janice Day] Reference

"I'm almost afeard as I swore, gents," he observed, and his fear was certainly well founded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference

But I ain't afeard; it ain't the likes of them as can send me there, and I know I'm safe in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working in the Shade Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping] Reference

Indade, it's going off loike that the poor crayture will be, I'm afeard, whin it comes to the ind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference