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  • She looked forward to meeting his parents, but not without apprehension.
    apprehension = nervousness
  • There was a great temptation to scatter into the other rooms, but apprehension is the strangest thing.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • How could he be so oblivious to my apprehension?   (source)
    apprehension = worry or concern about what will happen
  • Roy felt a strange mixture of apprehension and excitement. Part of him was worried about the tactics used by Beatrice's stepbrother, and part of him was rooting for the kid.   (source)
  • She had heard first a bustling in the front of the jail, and smelled fresh coffee, and had sat up, stiff with apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry about what will happen
  • Not speech, not words, just a groan of apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • I could sense apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry or concern about what will happen
  • Excitement turned to apprehension, but I reminded myself that college was an investment in my future.   (source)
  • Calvin touched Meg in a quick gesture, and whether it was of thanks or apprehension she was not sure.   (source)
    apprehension = nervousness
  • Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere,   (source)
    apprehension = worry
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  • There were three others with us—Phineas in those days almost always moved in groups the size of a hockey team—and they stood with me looking with masked apprehension from him to the tree.   (source)
  • The happy mood of the afternoon was rapidly dissolving in apprehension.   (source)
  • Piggy clasped his hands in apprehension.   (source)
  • Now she is all worry and apprehension and propriety.   (source)
    apprehension = concern about what will happen
  • With the passage of time, I became increasingly aware of how all of the adults around me were living with constant fear and apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry or concern about what will happen
  • My Dearest Son: I am in the greatest state of apprehension, at not having had a letter from you, for so long.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • "This," he says, only to me, "is the information that will change everything."
    My legs shake with relief and apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry or concern about what will happen
  • Miss Hastings seemed uncomfortable as she watched the blind man walk across the office, and I must admit to feeling a bit of apprehension myself.   (source)
  • Frigid air and snow swirled in little mini-tornadoes into the barn, making me shiver, although it was more from nerves and apprehension than from the cold.   (source)
  • It must increase your strength, riches and trade; and by this union the whole island, being joined in affection and free from all apprehensions of different interest, will be enabled to resist all its enemies….   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.   (source)
    apprehension = worry or concern about what will happen
  • Lennie's face wrinkled with apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.   (source)
  • The small girls looked on, half with enjoyment, half with apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry or concern about what will happen
  • Dexter waited with no apprehension of what was coming.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • I had a horrible sinking in my heart, and from Van Helsing's face I gathered that he felt some fear or apprehension as to what was to come.   (source)
  • So the dog made no effort to communicate its apprehension to the man.   (source)
    apprehension = worry or concern about what will happen
  • Yet these thoughts affected Hester Prynne less with hope than apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • All these things I saw without then knowing that I saw them, for I was in an agony of apprehension.   (source)
  • "And grandpapa?" inquired the young girl, trembling with apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = fear or worry
  • You are forbidden to write—to hold a pen; yet one word from you, dear Victor, is necessary to calm our apprehensions.   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • Fanny was all agitation and flutter; all hope and apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = nervousness
  • But for Laila, being with Tariq is worth weathering these apprehensions.   (source)
    apprehensions = fears
  • And yet, despite his apprehensions, the prospect of running the kennel alone excited him.   (source)
  • Ralph was full of fright and apprehension and pride.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • Laila smelled soap and talcum, ammonia and urine, and rising apprehension in Aziza, who had begun whimpering.   (source)
  • She put away from her whatever it was that gave her a pinprick of apprehension, and suggested that I give the family a preview in the livingroom.   (source)
  • In that place, there was only fear and apprehension, and the dead song at Rosa Hubermann's cardboard lips.   (source)
  • But I could scarcely eat two bites; I was shivering with apprehension, because of all the attention he was calling to himself.   (source)
  • "Sshoww themm," she said to Mrs Whatsit, and at something in her voice Meg felt prickles of apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = fear or worry
  • To go from a familiar thing, however undesirable, into the unknown, is always a matter for apprehension, and I suppose that is why so many people are afraid to die.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • Edgar thought that someone else, watching from another viewpoint, might see concern or apprehension there, or fear, or desire, or revulsion.   (source)
  • And the look, the myriad of looks, on Tariq: of apprehension, tenderness, apology, embarrassment, but mostly, mostly, of hunger.   (source)
    apprehension = worry or concern about what will happen
  • Although creating considerable apprehension about the quality of the shelter, at least they could hear the three sirens that would signal the end of the raid and safety.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • Then Edgar ran his hand along Tinder's foreleg again, this time all the way to his pad, without a protest from the dog beyond a short rumble of apprehension and a lick.   (source)
    apprehension = fear or worry
  • "When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body," says he, "there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate enact tyrannical laws then execute them in a tyrannical manner."   (source)
    apprehensions = fears
  • Green with anxiety and apprehension, only Bernard remembered them; the others ignored him.   (source)
    apprehension = concern about what will happen
  • He whistled his new weapon through the air and struck the ground experimentally, while the dogs leaped aside and whined with apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry or concern about what will happen
  • Lenina suddenly felt all the sensations normally experienced at the beginning of a Violent Passion Surrogate treatment–a sense of dreadful emptiness, a breathless apprehension, a nausea.   (source)
    apprehension = concern about what will happen
  • I saw him leave for Whitby with as brave a face as could, but I was sick with apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • The stationer's heart begins to thump heavily, for his old apprehensions have never abated.   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • "Shall I tell her?" said I. "Would you be so good?" he returned with a glance of something like apprehension at Miss Flite.   (source)
    apprehension = worry or concern about what will happen
  • Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • Villefort's brow darkened more and more, his white lips and clinched teeth filled Dantes with apprehension.   (source)
  • I know that the apprehension of being forced to quit Mansfield will for a time be arming you against him.   (source)
    apprehension = concern
  • I was not free from apprehension that he would come back to propound through the gate, "And sixteen?"   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • The Englishman appeared to reflect a moment, and then said,—"From which it would appear, sir, that this credit inspires you with considerable apprehension?"   (source)
  • "I hope she does not suppose there is any dislike on his side."
    "She must know herself too secure of the regard of all the rest of you," said Fanny, with half a sigh, "to have any such apprehension."   (source)
  • Thus the minister felt no apprehension that Roger Chillingworth would touch, in express words, upon the real position which they sustained towards one another.   (source)
  • To confess the truth, it was my greatest apprehension—as it would never be a measure of policy to turn out so quiet an individual as myself; and it being hardly in the nature of a public officer to resign—it was my chief trouble, therefore, that I was likely to grow grey and decrepit in the Surveyorship, and become much such another animal as the old Inspector.   (source)
  • Miss Crawford was not entirely free from similar apprehensions, though they arose principally from doubts of her sister's style of living and tone of society; and it was not till after she had tried in vain to persuade her brother to settle with her at his own country house, that she could resolve to hazard herself among her other relations.   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • All these circumstances did not strike me as painfully at the time as they have since done; in fact, all that had happened (with the exception of the story of the diamond, which certainly did wear an air of improbability), appeared natural enough, and called for neither apprehension nor mistrust;   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • At the same instant his ear caught a sort of indistinct sound on the stairs, followed by the measured tread of soldiery, with the clanking of swords and military accoutrements; then came a hum and buzz as of many voices, so as to deaden even the noisy mirth of the bridal party, among whom a vague feeling of curiosity and apprehension quelled every disposition to talk, and almost instantaneously the most deathlike stillness prevailed.   (source)
  • The careless security of his life in the Custom-House, on a regular income, and with but slight and infrequent apprehensions of removal, had no doubt contributed to make time pass lightly over him.   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • Lady Bertram could think nothing less, and Fanny shared her aunt's security, till she received a few lines from Edmund, written purposely to give her a clearer idea of his brother's situation, and acquaint her with the apprehensions which he and his father had imbibed from the physician with respect to some strong hectic symptoms, which seemed to seize the frame on the departure of the fever.   (source)
    apprehensions = concerns
  • "Oh, there was no harm meant," answered Danglars; "at first I certainly did feel somewhat uneasy as to what Fernand might be tempted to do; but when I saw how completely he had mastered his feelings, even so far as to become one of his rival's attendants, I knew there was no further cause for apprehension."   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • This is all I can say, sir; if you wish to learn more, address yourself to M. de Boville, the inspector of prisons, No. 15, Rue de Nouailles; he has, I believe, two hundred thousand francs in Morrel's hands, and if there be any grounds for apprehension, as this is a greater amount than mine, you will most probably find him better informed than myself.   (source)
  • I should have feared to injure both Edmond and yourself, had I divulged my own apprehensions to a soul.   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • Without uttering a word, they bandaged his eyes with a care that showed their apprehensions of his committing some indiscretion.   (source)
  • "But let us not yield to gloomy apprehensions," said the young man; "I assure you we are, or rather we shall be, very happy."   (source)
  • As he thus reflected, he felt the sensation we have described, and which had hitherto been unknown to him, arise in his bosom, and fill him with vague apprehensions.   (source)
  • "I will confess to you, Albert," replied Franz, "the count is a very singular person, and the appointment you have made to meet him in Paris fills me with a thousand apprehensions."   (source)
  • He prayed and supplicated in terms so moving, that even the officer was touched, and, although firm in his duty, he kindly said, "My worthy friend, let me beg of you to calm your apprehensions."   (source)
  • The conviction that they came from M. de Villefort relieved all Dantes' apprehensions; he advanced calmly, and placed himself in the centre of the escort.   (source)
  • I am on my own ground, and have an undoubted right to place a ladder against the wall, and to look over when I please, without having any apprehensions of being taken off by the police as a suspicious character.   (source)
  • This loophole, which gradually diminished in size as it approached the outside, to an opening through which a child could not have passed, was, for better security, furnished with three iron bars, so as to quiet all apprehensions even in the mind of the most suspicious jailer as to the possibility of a prisoner's escape.   (source)
  • With a calm smile and a gentle wave of the hand, Monte Cristo signed to the distracted mother to lay aside her apprehensions; then, opening a casket that stood near, he drew forth a phial of Bohemian glass incrusted with gold, containing a liquid of the color of blood, of which he let fall a single drop on the child's lips.   (source)
    apprehensions = fears
  • Frequent war and constant apprehension, which require a state of as constant preparation, will infallibly produce them.   (source)
    apprehension = fear or worry
  • Hence, like most other BORDERING nations, they would always be either involved in disputes and war, or live in the constant apprehension of them.   (source)
  • The apprehension may be considered as a disease, for which there can be found no cure in the resources of argument and reasoning.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • A man may then be sure of the ground upon which he stands, and can never be deterred from his duty by the apprehension of being placed in a less eligible situation.   (source)
    apprehension = fear or worry
  • What reasonable cause of apprehension can be inferred from a power in the Union to prescribe regulations for the militia, and to command its services when necessary, while the particular States are to have the SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE APPOINTMENT OF THE OFFICERS?   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • It appears that Massachusetts found it necessary to raise troops for repressing the disorders within that State; that Pennsylvania, from the mere apprehension of commotions among a part of her citizens, has thought proper to have recourse to the same measure.   (source)
  • Instead of their being "joined in affection" and free from all apprehension of different "interests," envy and jealousy would soon extinguish confidence and affection, and the partial interests of each confederacy, instead of the general interests of all America, would be the only objects of their policy and pursuits.   (source)
    apprehension = concern
  • It must needs be that this people, so jealous of their liberties, have, in all the preceding models of the constitutions which they have established, inserted the most precise and rigid precautions on this point, the omission of which, in the new plan, has given birth to all this apprehension and clamor.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • But two considerations will serve to quiet all apprehension on this head: one is, that we are sure the resources of the community, in their full extent, will be brought into activity for the benefit of the Union; the other is, that whatever deficiences there may be, can without difficulty be supplied by loans.   (source)
  • It is not yet forgotten that well-grounded apprehensions of imminent danger induced the people of America to form the memorable Congress of 1774.   (source)
    apprehensions = fears
  • While this ought to remove all apprehensions on the subject, it affords, at the same time, a cogent argument for constituting the Senate a court for the trial of impeachments.   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • I cannot but persuade myself, on the other hand, that the different lights in which the subject has been placed in the course of these observations, will go far towards removing in candid minds the apprehensions they may have entertained on the point.   (source)
  • If the proposed construction of the federal government be found, upon an impartial examination of it, to be such as to afford, to a proper extent, the same species of security, all apprehensions on the score of usurpation ought to be discarded.   (source)
    apprehensions = fears
  • It must increase your strength, riches, and trade; and by this union the whole island, being joined in affection and free from all apprehensions of different interest, will be ENABLED TO RESIST ALL ITS ENEMIES.   (source)
  • So far is the general sense of mankind from corresponding with the tenets of those who endeavor to lull asleep our apprehensions of discord and hostility between the States, in the event of disunion, that it has from long observation of the progress of society become a sort of axiom in politics, that vicinity or nearness of situation, constitutes nations natural enemies.   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • Specious arguments of danger to the common liberty could easily be contrived; plausible excuses for the deficiencies of the party could, without difficulty, be invented to alarm the apprehensions, inflame the passions, and conciliate the good-will, even of those States which were not chargeable with any violation or omission of duty.   (source)
  • I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debility might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.   (source)
    apprehension = concern
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  • So far, she has evaded apprehension, but it's just a matter of time.
  • Finally, in March 1952, just before the treaty took effect and the occupation ended, the order for apprehension of fugitive war criminals was lifted.   (source)
    apprehension = capture and arrest
  • One must also bear in mind the strange coincidence that what is argued to be a wrong identification led to the apprehension of an associate who immediately confessed.   (source)
    apprehension = the capture (typically of a criminal)
  • I was not related to the outlaw, or connected with him by any recognizable tie; he had put his hand to no writing or settlement in my favor before his apprehension, and...   (source)
    apprehension = capture and arrest
  • In the interim it pleased providence to cause the apprehension of Caderousse, who was discovered in some distant country, and brought back to France, where he made a full confession, refusing to make the fact of his wife's having suggested and arranged the murder any excuse for his own guilt.   (source)
    apprehension = capture
  • Nor did my hate long confine itself to useless wishes; I began to reflect on the best means of securing him; and for this purpose, about a month after my release, I repaired to a criminal judge in the town and told him that I had an accusation to make, that I knew the destroyer of my family, and that I required him to exert his whole authority for the apprehension of the murderer.   (source)
    apprehension = capture and arrest
  • The arrest order for suspected war criminals had been lifted. ... The lifting of the apprehension order was the result of an unlikely turn in history.   (source)
  • If he had tugs of conscience over what he'd done, he shrugged them away by assuring himself that the lifting of the fugitive-apprehension order was a personal exoneration.   (source)
  • When he told us that a large reward was offered by Sir Leicester Dedlock for the murderer's apprehension...   (source)
    apprehension = capture
  • My first duty, directly I had succeeded in recalling the babe to life, was to restore it to its mother; but, in order to do so, I must have made close and careful inquiry, which would, in all probability, have led to my own apprehension; and I clung to life, partly on my sister's account, and partly from that feeling of pride inborn in our hearts of desiring to come off untouched and victorious in the execution of our vengeance.   (source)
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  • —that this woman was so very artfully dressed from the time of her apprehension, that she looked much slighter than she really was; in particular, her sleeves are always remembered to have been so skilfully contrived that her arms had quite a delicate look.   (source)
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  • I was startled and thrilled with my apprehension of the painting.
  • What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!   (source)
  • On every point of general literature he displays unbounded knowledge and a quick and piercing apprehension.   (source)
  • As I walked on to the hotel, I felt that a dread, much exceeding the mere apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition, made me tremble.   (source)
  • He knew her to be clever, to have a quick apprehension as well as good sense, and a fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.   (source)
  • She could only perceive that it must relate to Wimpole Street and Mr. Crawford, and only conjecture that something very imprudent had just occurred in that quarter to draw the notice of the world, and to excite her jealousy, in Miss Crawford's apprehension, if she heard it.   (source)
  • In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.   (source)
  • Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy's apprehensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit.   (source)
    apprehensions = understandings
  • I understand now why you thought to come to me, but I fear you labor under a misapprehension.   (source)
    misapprehension = misunderstanding
    standard prefix: The prefix "mis-" in misapprehension means wrong and reverses the meaning of apprehension. This is the same pattern you see in words like misunderstand, misbehave, and misuse.
  • I suppose your misapprehension is understandable.   (source)
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  • "Oh," said Shalamov, in the tone of one who suddenly understands a simple misapprehension between friends.   (source)
  • The secret workouts worked for Seabiscuit, but because Smith refused to explain himself to the press, they created a serious misapprehension.   (source)
    misapprehension = wrong understanding
  • Here is some great misapprehension which must be rectified.   (source)
    misapprehension = misunderstanding
  • A scruple of this kind would deprive us of one of the principal advantages to be expected from union, and can only flow from a misapprehension of the nature of the provision itself.   (source)
    misapprehension = wrong understanding
  • It is easy to perceive that this will tend to destroy, in the common apprehension, all distinction between the sources from which they might proceed;   (source)
    apprehension = understanding
  • Bella, you seem to be under a misapprehension.†   (source)
  • Young man, you are under a misapprehension very common among civilians.†   (source)
  • If anyone has been laboring under such a misapprehension, we are anxious to prove that it is not true.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't want so charming a little patriot to be left under a misapprehension about my contribution to the Confederate Cause.†   (source)
  • Bridey said, "I've brought Father Mackay to see you"; papa said, "Father Mackay, I am afraid you have been brought here under a misapprehension.†   (source)
  • —What belongs, queried Mr Bloom bending, fancying he was perhaps under some misapprehension.†   (source)
  • He saw the smile, and a strange misapprehension came over him.†   (source)
  • It had originated in misapprehension entirely.†   (source)
  • Vulgarity, ignorance, misapprehension, are old acquaintances.†   (source)
  • At these the fellow-passengers laughed, except the solitary boy bearing the key and ticket, who, regarding the kitten with his saucer eyes, seemed mutely to say: "All laughing comes from misapprehension.†   (source)
  • What comforted his misapprehension?†   (source)
  • Selecting one, he paused to contemplate it a moment before saying: "My dear Miss Lily, I'm sorry if there's been any little misapprehension between us-but you made me feel my suit was so hopeless that I had really no intention of renewing it."†   (source)
  • However, I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy; and as much for the manner in which it was said, as for the substance of the speech; the manner was frank and sincere; one does not often see such a manner: no, on the contrary, affectation, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's meaning are the usual rewards of candour.†   (source)
  • To remove the liability of such misapprehension, I deem it proper to append the following brief explanation.†   (source)
  • Oh, there must be some misapprehension.†   (source)
  • Fangs!" he ejaculated at the top of his voice to a ragged wolfish-looking dog, a sort of lurcher, half mastiff, half greyhound, which ran limping about as if with the purpose of seconding his master in collecting the refractory grunters; but which, in fact, from misapprehension of the swine-herd's signals, ignorance of his own duty, or malice prepense, only drove them hither and thither, and increased the evil which he seemed to design to remedy.†   (source)
  • Despair had been added to his original grief by the unfortunate disclosure of the boy who had received the last words of Mrs. Yeobright—words too bitterly uttered in an hour of misapprehension.†   (source)
  • In spite of all his social experience Vronsky was, in consequence of the new position in which he was placed, laboring under a strange misapprehension.†   (source)
  • He might be jealous of her brother as a rival, but if more had seemed implied, the fault must have been in her misapprehension.†   (source)
  • — I cannot rest—I shall not have a moment's peace till this is explained—some dreadful misapprehension or other.†   (source)
  • I shall never reflect on my former acquaintance with your family in Devonshire without the most grateful pleasure, and flatter myself it will not be broken by any mistake or misapprehension of my actions.†   (source)
  • That some kind of engagement had subsisted between Willoughby and Marianne she could not doubt, and that Willoughby was weary of it, seemed equally clear; for however Marianne might still feed her own wishes, SHE could not attribute such behaviour to mistake or misapprehension of any kind.†   (source)
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  • At home, burgeoning manhood was a trigger for apprehension.†   (source)
  • I asked, doing an extremely poor job of hiding my apprehension.†   (source)
  • It was apprehension and anxiety that roused me.†   (source)
  • Fache felt a shiver of apprehension.†   (source)
  • "Then good luck," said Dumbledore, and he watched, with a trace of apprehension on his face, as Snape swept wordlessly after Sirius.†   (source)
  • Will and I exchange a look, half surprise and half apprehension.†   (source)
  • He felt a now-all-too-familiar clench of apprehension, knowing that something had to be wrong or the people who'd rescued them would've come for them a long time ago.†   (source)
  • Racing along behind, Reynie saw his friends across the plaza, staring after him in wonder and not a little apprehension.†   (source)
  • This was the first time that visitors had toured Jurassic Park, and Muldoon shared Arnold's apprehension.†   (source)
  • He saw first the gray-blue of a jacket, and then the mute apprehension in the man's face.†   (source)
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  • Any apprehension he may have had on Sol 1 was long gone.†   (source)
  • He walked to the Lord Commander's Tower alone, with a curious sense of apprehension.†   (source)
  • Cinder pulled the sopping rag from the bucket and put her apprehension to work, scrubbing Adri's hover to a fine gleam.†   (source)
  • I looked back in sudden apprehension and Rufus laughed.†   (source)
  • Ender imagined what it would be like to have his friends there with him, cheering or laughing or gasping with apprehension; sometimes he thought it would be a great distraction, but other times he wished for it with all his heart.†   (source)
  • Somehow, that explanation doesn't ease my apprehension.†   (source)
  • MY APPREHENSIONS ABOUT BORIS'S father had been eased somewhat since he'd taken my hands and thanked me for looking after Boris.†   (source)
  • Any impulse I might have felt toward self-congratulation was extinguished by overwhelming apprehension about the long, dangerous descent that lay ahead.†   (source)
  • Gudgeon smiled, newborn confidence peeping through his apprehension.†   (source)
  • The knot of apprehension in Sirenio Gomez melts into pity.†   (source)
  • I knew she heard the tension in my voice, and she studied me with a trace of apprehension.†   (source)
  • With apprehension, he approached the tree.†   (source)
  • It was the first observable action of the Bikura that had hinted at aggression and I sat in some apprehension after they had gone.†   (source)
  • Once or twice he'd asked questions of Miss Sue about Ole Miss that suggested a certain vague apprehension.†   (source)
  • We floundered into the ice-cold water, got wet, and then squelched our way back to the classroom, freezing, dripping, already full of apprehension.†   (source)
  • Whether the apprehensions of the good ladies …. were due to infringements of morality or to the anticipation that the performers may bring on an attack of peritonitis if they persist in their contortions is not clear, but all the same they have taken the position that what is not considered very much out of the way on the banks of the Nile or in the market places of Syria is entirely improper on the Midway between Jackson and Washington Parks.†   (source)
  • Another woman might have shot him a look of apprehension, pleading, anger even, because what he said sure sounded like part one of Goodbye, I'm gone.†   (source)
  • I was shaking with both anger and apprehension.†   (source)
  • My scalp tingled with apprehension.†   (source)
  • Said that he had violated the SPAC, the Suspected Perpetrator Apprehension Code.†   (source)
  • My hope in producing this work is that perhaps there's a thread to be found, a pattern or connection, a seed of apprehension herein, which can be of some use, no matter how slight, in helping to end the rising casualty count for the Ramiros of this world, as more and more communities come under the death grip of what we called "The Crazy Life.†   (source)
  • From the small red wagon up ahead, Pari cried out his name, her voice high, shaking with apprehension.†   (source)
  • An impatience mixed with guilt and apprehension.†   (source)
  • They were looking at Mo with expressions of apprehension mingled with dislike.†   (source)
  • The sharp edge of his apprehensions blunted by this sudden wealth of worldly possessions.†   (source)
  • A small flower of apprehension began to open inside her chest.†   (source)
  • In fact, I am sure it was an apprehension of this sort, penetrating even the thick haze created by alcohol, which reduced my father's passengers into a shamed silence that Sunday afternoon many years ago.†   (source)
  • He and Mack then headed for the Ducette site, but before they reached it Emil came hurrying toward them, a look of apprehension written clearly on his face.†   (source)
  • Bast asked with a mix of apprehension and anger.†   (source)
  • So then why did he feel more apprehension than relief?†   (source)
  • Yet he felt an angry apprehension at the fear he sensed radiating from his mother.†   (source)
  • He smiled at me, and I could see no trace of apprehension in his jewel-like eyes.†   (source)
  • I look at him with equal apprehension.†   (source)
  • A feeling of apprehension had begun to spread around the table.†   (source)
  • I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up.†   (source)
  • Excitement, apprehension, release and anger had drained me of mobility.†   (source)
  • For Dick was at least partly inhabited by Perry's mystical-moral apprehensions.†   (source)
  • Apprehension sent me reeling.†   (source)
  • Now that it had all been decided and there could be no turning back, Eric felt a sour and savage apprehension.†   (source)
  • He should write them in the middle of the clock of books, to fix the heart of his apprehension: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.†   (source)
  • And I can't help but notice that when they return to their meals, it's with a look of apprehension.†   (source)
  • Relief segued into apprehension.†   (source)
  • She gave Nurse Mayinga ice cubes to suck on, which helped to ease the pain in her throat, and she gave her Valium to try to stave off her apprehension of what lay ahead.†   (source)
  • Her apprehension deepened, and she turned to look at the house, its dark brick rising into the white sky.†   (source)
  • At last, worn out with his apprehensions, he passed into a deep sleep where even his fear could not follow, and lay without sound or movement in the solitary burrow.†   (source)
  • Now she confirmed his worst apprehensions.†   (source)
  • Kate was looking at Antibbe with apprehension.†   (source)
  • He looked down with apprehension.†   (source)
  • Pippa's voice is filled with apprehension.†   (source)
  • Mary sensed my apprehension and gently reached for my hand and held it tight.†   (source)
  • He saw apprehension flash across her face.†   (source)
  • The order to leave the mountain quickly changed Easy's mood to one of apprehension.†   (source)
  • Jenks's face twitched in apprehension.†   (source)
  • It filled me with apprehension.†   (source)
  • Clevinger declared with deep apprehension.†   (source)
  • I have been restless and filled with apprehension.†   (source)
  • It's what has taken them this far, Barbara muses— through apprehension, doubt, even fear.†   (source)
  • I feel a dart of apprehension as I see him leaning forward.†   (source)
  • His earlier apprehension had vanished.†   (source)
  • Tom looked at the Roush with apprehension.†   (source)
  • And I felt myself go tight with apprehension.†   (source)
  • He took off his tie and poured coffee and tried to ease her apprehension.†   (source)
  • The boys stared with apprehension at the older men; Cesar had found seven.†   (source)
  • Knowing that now any anger or resentment—or any apprehension about Radchaai officials—that I felt would be attributed to my being resentful and fearful of the Radch.†   (source)
  • I headed the car through the red-brick campus gateposts with a sense of cold apprehension.†   (source)
  • He sat down on the Hand, trembling with anger and apprehension.†   (source)
  • We are not under the least apprehension of an attack on this place by surprise or otherwise.†   (source)
  • Despite your apprehensions, I have enormous faith in Langley's abilities.†   (source)
  • On this, my third visit, I felt no such apprehension whatsoever.†   (source)
  • She saw nothing untoward, but her apprehension increased.†   (source)
  • But I threw away my apprehension.†   (source)
  • She could see the apprehension in his smile.†   (source)
  • Under the skin on the back of Joe's neck, ticks of apprehension still burrowed and twitched.†   (source)
  • They have dim apprehensions that such propositions as 'God does not exist' are somewhat dubious at least in comparison with statements like 'All carnivorous cows eat meat.†   (source)
  • It would have been easier to pacify her had we not ourselves suffered from quite a residue of childhood apprehensions, or had we been able to advance some real idea of the region to set against its morbid reputation.†   (source)
  • Max took her hand and felt his apprehension wash away.†   (source)
  • Then, as she watched him, the apprehension vanished.†   (source)
  • School grew nearer, the early morning collision of struggle and apprehension building from taste to clamor, the bitterness on her tongue expanding to a cacophony that assaulted her entire mind.†   (source)
  • Wallace Stegner writes, "In the past generation or two, even our wars have gone Asian, along with much of our trade, some of our religious searching, and a lot of our apprehension."†   (source)
  • But apprehension was loose in the room; it created a tremulous, undirected energy that danced above the crowd like phosphorous on a night sea.†   (source)
  • But when he turned and saw the apprehension on the face of Green and the others he dropped to his knees and took Green's hand shaking it madly.†   (source)
  • If I must do justice to my own apprehension then I will say it was the nature of her familiarity that drew me to a halt.†   (source)
  • My paintings themselves he regards with wonder, and also apprehension, like a small child looking at a candle.†   (source)
  • His existence is not a question of argument but of apprehension.†   (source)
  • A group might be less attuned to suspicious apprehensions or censure for an injudicious or affected clemency.†   (source)
  • "The first one or two made me a little uncomfortable," Lincoln has admitted to an artist who came to paint his portrait, "but they have ceased to give me any apprehension.†   (source)
  • The drow noted Wulfgar's apprehension and smiled broadly.†   (source)
  • There was almost no tension or apprehension between either of us anymore.†   (source)
  • Shamron raised his liver-spotted hands—hands that were far too large for so small a man—and without apprehension Gabriel entrusted them with Raphael.†   (source)
  • Lane sat up a bit in his chair and adjusted his expression from that of all-round apprehension and discontent to that of a man whose date has merely gone to the John, leaving him, as dates do, with nothing to do in the meantime but smoke and look bored, preferably attractively bored.†   (source)
  • His face tightened with apprehension as he waited for my anger to explode.†   (source)
  • But now, as he stood in the doorway again, homing to her presence, he thought he saw her shoulders rise with apprehension, her elbows draw in.†   (source)
  • He thought his apprehension illogical.†   (source)
  • The very matter-of-fact simplicity of that statement gave George a feeling of sick apprehension.†   (source)
  • I said, cold with apprehension.†   (source)
  • Grandma had thought my agitation and apprehension ofher over-familiar pigeons was love.†   (source)
  • He returned in an agitated state of mind, fearful of apprehension and further confinement.†   (source)
  • Joe was quaking with apprehension.†   (source)
  • There was a threatening edge to Leamas' voice, and for a moment, just for a moment, a look of apprehension seemed to pass across Kiever's smooth face.†   (source)
  • The apprehensions of the peasant women were soon dispelled.†   (source)
  • Rufus looked into his eyes with reproach and apprehension, and turned in at his walk.†   (source)
  • MARY With a flash of apprehension.†   (source)
  • The beat keeps you running in circles, like: Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • Harry had indeed been eyeing the Pensieve with some apprehension.†   (source)
  • 'But what if that's the one?' said Ron, staring at it with a mixture of apprehension and longing.†   (source)
  • The moment the door shut behind them, Clary sat down on the bed and regarded Max with apprehension.†   (source)
  • Thomas's apprehension grew with every step.†   (source)
  • His eyes should be wild with apprehension, given where we are, but they are still and dark.†   (source)
  • Was it my imagination, or was she looking at Amos with apprehension—even fear?†   (source)
  • It's a wreck," she heard herself say softly, a flicker of apprehension in her voice.†   (source)
  • There was a sound behind me and I turned in quick apprehension.†   (source)
  • We passed through metal detectors," Sophie reminded, apparently sensing Langdon's apprehension.†   (source)
  • We don't know what they want yet, he reminded himself, containing his growing apprehension.†   (source)
  • The colonel bashar came striding toward the Baron, whose eyes went to slits of apprehension.†   (source)
  • Langdon had a growing apprehension that there was far more going on than he could imagine.†   (source)
  • Eragon forced back his growing apprehension.†   (source)
  • As the chill rose through her flesh, she felt an unexpected apprehension.†   (source)
  • With apprehension he hurried down the hallway.†   (source)
  • Swallowing her apprehension, Sophie moved slowly across the room.†   (source)
  • Eragon listened to his praise with growing apprehension.†   (source)
  • In his haste and excitement, and his apprehension, he had trouble buckling the straps.†   (source)
  • Eragon stared at the dark tunnel, feeling a sense of increasing apprehension.†   (source)
  • Won't there always be apprehension about what may be revealed, exposed about the reader?†   (source)
  • Ser Barristan watched with ill-concealed apprehension.†   (source)
  • As Osney listened, apprehension slowly spread across his face.†   (source)
  • Apprehension sank its poisonous claws into her belly.†   (source)
  • Sheng Chou Yang stared in growing apprehension and fury.†   (source)
  • Confusion and apprehension played across his youthful features.†   (source)
  • Edklinth felt cold shivers of apprehension.†   (source)
  • He was no citizen of the Walled City; his expression was a mixture of apprehension and disgust.†   (source)
  • It's true," Alessandro agreed, sharing in her pride enough to banish his apprehension.†   (source)
  • I saw terrible fatigue; I saw sadness and apprehension.†   (source)
  • But I knew my apprehension was due to matters of trust.†   (source)
  • It's in Kentucky," said Oralia with some apprehension as she read the headline.†   (source)
  • She had turned in her seat and was regarding Miro and Artkin with apprehension.†   (source)
  • Yossarian felt a cold, damp wind of apprehension blow over him.†   (source)
  • There was apprehension on some faces but approval on most.†   (source)
  • At the head of the main bunch of cattle, Call surveyed the situation without too much apprehension.†   (source)
  • He kissed my neck, my throat, and I confess I shuddered with apprehension.†   (source)
  • They could not decipher the expression on his face, except that it showed no sign of apprehension.†   (source)
  • When she saw the two of them, somberness turned to apprehension.†   (source)
  • That same nervous apprehension was tingling on the surface of my skin.†   (source)
  • No one talked; the dank air in the eerily lit abandoned store was tense with apprehension.†   (source)
  • He had been harboring a skittish apprehension that he was not real—that he didn't exist at all.†   (source)
  • Apprehension for the coming ordeal sickened Eragon to the point where he could barely move.†   (source)
  • As I took the telephone receiver from my husband's hand, I felt a shiver of apprehension.†   (source)
  • And I cannot shake the apprehension I feel about helping Pippa.†   (source)
  • Drizzt said nothing but smiled wryly, adding to the barbarian's apprehension.†   (source)
  • But the search, ma'am," Sukeena said in her Kenyan singsong, her eyes wide with apprehension.†   (source)
  • David felt a wave of nausea and apprehension gripping him as he watched the scene below.†   (source)
  • The thought of him leaving sent a ripple of apprehension through the camp.†   (source)
  • The note of apprehension was obvious in her voice now.†   (source)
  • Exhaustion and apprehension were taking their toll on me.†   (source)
  • "Sandy Koufax," Angel answered with a mix of arrogance and apprehension as he picked up the ball.†   (source)
  • Whatever apprehension I had evaporated within minutes.†   (source)
  • Gorgon's slithery voice is tinged with apprehension.†   (source)
  • As alarm spread across their faces, Eragon's earlier apprehension returned.†   (source)
  • "I hope none don't crawl in this wagon," Lippy said, his lip quivering with apprehension.†   (source)
  • For the most part I kept my apprehension to myself.†   (source)
  • It is meant to disarm us, but it seems only to increase my apprehension.†   (source)
  • A shiver of apprehension wormed down Eragon's side, like an icy snake.†   (source)
  • My heart pounded with apprehension" but I found that the familiar tasks helped me keep my wits.†   (source)
  • For a moment, he regards me warily, but then his apprehension seems to be forgotten.†   (source)
  • He was not troubled by any sense of being lost, or any apprehension about Mexican bandits.†   (source)
  • Reading about it here brought a wave of apprehension.†   (source)
  • At the sight of Jake he felt a deep apprehension.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and diss—I'm ruined.†   (source)
  • I gulped at the last beer, woozy with mingled apprehension and joy.†   (source)
  • Her chestnut hair was disheveled, her eyes, a deep and stirring blue, round in apprehension.†   (source)
  • Joe read her quick start, the apprehension, and then the almost hopeless fear and weariness.†   (source)
  • He enjoyed the scene of fear and apprehension before the skinny dame yanked her shade down.†   (source)
  • Malachai's face was expressionless, but Randy sensed his apprehension.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension and— "He was lying.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • Train schedules are a matter of pride and of apprehension to nearly everyone.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • An ache was on the top of his stomach, an apprehension that was like a sick thought.†   (source)
  • Apprehension… "It's a game," Maria cried, "called 'Sardine.'†   (source)
  • Of course many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissention have begun.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun… "Least of all your money.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissention have begun.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension… "Should I start running?"†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
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