Now the age-old fears proved not dead but merely sleeping, ready to rouse whenever precious light was lost.

It was the age-old fear of being excluded from the Western world, of being relegated to Asia.

And the age-old fear of man, that he will lose his supremacy, will bring all the hawks and hunters of the galaxy down on your trail, Horan.

A ship-to-ship shuttle probably would never need a planetary bail-out device, but age-old fears written into ancient regulations tended 'to die hard.

'The scarves are being used to fan the age-old fear of the Arab which has been dormant - simmering - since the Algerian war.'

They trembled with the same age-old fear of nature's mighty forces which so many intelligent beings retain even at the highest stages of civilization.

It tells of Sam Peebles and his battle against an age-old fear.

"The biggest problem we've got is the primitive, age-old fear and hatred and dehumanization of the other - people who aren't like us," Mr. Clinton said.

To face such an unknown menace kindled one of the age-old fears of his own race.

It was as though a thousand age-old fears awoke and struggled for supremacy in his brain.