He shook his head like a man afraid of sleep.

We toiled like men afraid to speak to each other.

Very soon men, angry and afraid, came to drive him from the place.

Kirk, moving forward to greet him, thought, What's the man afraid of?

The old man, less afraid than his two companions, stared at David.

A young man, on the run, lonely and perhaps afraid.

He appears to have been a man afraid of something, yes?

"Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears?"

What has he done to make the older man so afraid?