The same fear lay in his daughter's eyes.
Each time he tried, that fear lay on him like a stone.
He hadn't realized that particular fear lay so near the surface until he had put it into words.
'I've got to talk to this lady,' Davis said, and the fear lay right on the surface of her eyes.
For the news touched them where their fears lay.
Behind the question lay an overriding fear - of being stretched out on the operating table.
But there was another and a later time, when doubts and fears had laid hold of him again.
The fear of the Titan, and the memory of his awful laughter, lay on them like death.
Maybe his fear lay in the fact that he'd always thought Sandy deserved better than him.
Behind much of this hate lay a lingering fear and sense of vulnerability.