fear vs sand

fear

adj
  • Able; capable; stout; strong; sound. 

noun
  • Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. 

  • A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. 

  • A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. 

verb
  • To regret. 

  • To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for. 

  • To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm. 

  • To venerate; to feel awe towards. 

  • To feel fear. 

sand

verb
  • To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it. 

  • To blot ink using sand. 

  • To cover with sand. 

noun
  • A beach or other expanse of sand. 

  • A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass). 

  • "sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom) 

  • Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction. 

  • A sandpiper. 

  • A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. 

  • A light beige colour, like that of typical sand. 

adj
  • Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand. 

How often have the words fear and sand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )