The entire layout-maybe five miles wide-was outlined in white, as if drawn by a child too fearful to*go outside the lines.

Moving slowly, as if approaching a fearful child, he ex- tended one hand, his flesh-and-blood hand, and kept talking.

This creature waits for fearful children on which to prey.

"I will, in its finality, turn your target population into a nation of the fearful children."

As longitudinal studies have shown that fearful children can be at risk for later behaviour problems (Richman et al.

And then, I saw the little man lift one of his arms and peer out like a fearful child.

He looked up at Griffyn like a fearful child expecting to be beaten.

'Yes, ma'am,' said the child, fearful of giving new offence by the confession.

But he's a timid child, fearful of water, heights, spiders, darkness and the great outdoors.

She described herself as an "excessively fearful" child.