cross-fear

Updated: August 12, 2026

But presently another dread assailed him; the dread of the city-bred man accustomed to human intercourse, the swing of business, the stir of social life, to face great solitudes alone. This cross-fear became so strong it turned him back in a second panic. Then floundering to keep his equilibrium after an incautious step, he sat down heavily and found himself skidding towards the larger crevasse.

Ada Woodruff Anderson - The Rim of the Desert