apprehension

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She looked forward to meeting his parents, but not without apprehension.

Will and I exchange a look, half surprise and half apprehension.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

There was a great temptation to scatter into the other rooms, but apprehension is the strangest thing.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

She had heard first a bustling in the front of the jail, and smelled fresh coffee, and had sat up, stiff with apprehension.  (source) Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, 1975

"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) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

This was the first time that visitors had toured Jurassic Park, and Muldoon shared Arnold's apprehension.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

MY APPREHENSIONS ABOUT BORIS'S father had been eased somewhat since he'd taken my hands and thanked me for looking after Boris.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

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) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

As the host trooped down the causeway through the black bogs of the Neck and spilled out into the riverlands beyond, Catelyn's apprehensions grew.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996

Not speech, not words, just a groan of apprehension.  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

The sharp edge of his apprehensions blunted by this sudden wealth of worldly possessions.†  (source) Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things, 1997

How could he be so oblivious to my apprehension?  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

By the time he had ridden a couple of miles he began to have strong apprehensions.†  (source) Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, 1985

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) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

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) Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, 1948

—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) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

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) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

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) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

When he told us that a large reward was offered by Sir Leicester Dedlock for the murderer's apprehension...  (source) Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1853

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) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

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) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1846

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) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

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) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

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) R. J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012

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) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

"Oh," said Shalamov, in the tone of one who suddenly understands a simple misapprehension between friends.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

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) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

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) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

I suppose your misapprehension is understandable.  (source) Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice, 2013

On every point of general literature he displays unbounded knowledge and a quick and piercing apprehension.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

I understand now why you thought to come to me, but I fear you labor under a misapprehension.  (source) Christopher Paolini, Eldest, 2005

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) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

The secret workouts worked for Seabiscuit, but because Smith refused to explain himself to the press, they created a serious misapprehension.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit, 2001

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) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

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) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847