It has always sounded very fearful to me, but that may, have been because it was so close to my ears.

She did not sound fearful, but she reached out and took Jake's hand again.

"Chaim," Buck said, his own voice sounding distant and fearful, "do you have a magnifying glass?"

"Oh-Oh's" is not only not positive; it sounds fearful and fainthearted.

His voice sounded nervous and fearful: "If we don't take off immediately, the generators will burn out!"

You're trying to scare them, but you only sound fearful.

"Aye," Friska whispered close to his ear, sounding fearful.

She also didn't sound particularly fearful.

"Never yet, I fear," it said; but its voice didn't sound particularly fearful.

Though it sounded fearful, the level of grumbling never reached suggestions of mutiny.