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apprehension as in:  apprehension about finals

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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
  • This was the first time that visitors had toured Jurassic Park, and Muldoon shared Arnold's apprehension.   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Edgar thought that someone else, watching from another viewpoint, might see concern or apprehension there, or fear, or desire, or revulsion.   (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)
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  • 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
  • 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)
  • Piggy clasped his hands in apprehension.   (source)
  • The happy mood of the afternoon was rapidly dissolving in apprehension.   (source)
  • Now she is all worry and apprehension and propriety.   (source)
    apprehension = concern about what will happen
  • "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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Yet these thoughts affected Hester Prynne less with hope than apprehension.   (source)
  • Finding my apprehensions unfounded, however, and calmed by the deep silence that reigned as evening declined at nightfall, I took confidence.   (source)
    apprehensions = anxiety (worries)
  • I was not free from apprehension that he would come back to propound through the gate, "And sixteen?"   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • I should have feared to injure both Edmond and yourself, had I divulged my own apprehensions to a soul.   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • You are forbidden to write—to hold a pen; yet one word from you, dear Victor, is necessary to calm our apprehensions.   (source)
  • 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)
  • The sharp edge of his apprehensions blunted by this sudden wealth of worldly possessions.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • For Dick was at least partly inhabited by Perry's mystical-moral apprehensions.†   (source)
  • By the time he had ridden a couple of miles he began to have strong apprehensions.†   (source)
  • She clutched the window-sill and stood choking and blinded, fighting with a crowd of daunting recollections and miserable apprehensions.†   (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)
  • Any apprehensions he may have had about Louisa Catherine's first meeting with his family, he kept to himself.†   (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)
  • The others seemed to share his apprehensions.†   (source)
  • Singbe, Grabeau, and Burnah carried the same apprehensions, but the three leaders put on brave faces and spoke happily and confidently of how they would all be in Mende soon.†   (source)
  • Despite your apprehensions, I have enormous faith in Langley's abilities.†   (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)
  • I was too young to be really afraid of much but not so young that I remained unshaken by certain apprehensions.†   (source)
  • The apprehensions of the peasant women were soon dispelled.†   (source)
  • 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
  • So the dog made no effort to communicate its apprehension to the man.   (source)
    apprehension = worry or 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
  • Fanny was all agitation and flutter; all hope and apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = nervousness
  • "And grandpapa?" inquired the young girl, trembling with apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = fear or worry
  • The stationer's heart begins to thump heavily, for his old apprehensions have never abated.   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • All these things I saw without then knowing that I saw them, for I was in an agony of apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • "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
  • 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
  • Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face.   (source)
    apprehension = worry
  • I listened too; and as I happened to be seated quite at the top of the room, I caught most of what he said: its import relieved me from immediate apprehension.   (source)
    apprehension = worry or concern about what will happen
  • I know that the apprehension of being forced to quit Mansfield will for a time be arming you against him.   (source)
    apprehension = concern
  • "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)
    apprehension = worry
  • Villefort's brow darkened more and more, his white lips and clinched teeth filled Dantes with apprehension.   (source)
  • Yesterday I trusted well in Providence, and believed that events were working together for your good and mine: it was a fine day, if you recollect — the calmness of the air and sky forbade apprehensions respecting your safety or comfort on your journey.   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • 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)
    apprehension = worry
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
    apprehension = worry
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • Without uttering a word, they bandaged his eyes with a care that showed their apprehensions of his committing some indiscretion.   (source)
    apprehensions = worries
  • "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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
    apprehensions = worries
  • Now she confirmed his worst apprehensions.†   (source)
  • As he wrote at the time, "I am not without apprehensions."†   (source)
  • She began making plans, though not without dire apprehensions: You invite me to you.†   (source)
  • Too many thoughts to sort out, too many swift shocks and apprehensions.†   (source)
  • We'd been expending heroic effort searching for an apartment, a frustrating process which we'd borne in mostly good humor although the bare spaces and empty rooms haunted with other people's abandoned lives kicked up (for me) a lot of ugly echoes from childhood, moving boxes and kitchen smells and shadowed bedrooms with the life gone out of them all but more than this, pulsing throughout, a sort of ominous mechanical hum audible (apparently) only to me, heavily-breathing apprehensions which the voices of the brokers, ringing cheerfully against the polished surfaces as they walked around switching on the lights and pointing out the stainless-steel appliances, did little to dispel.†   (source)
  • A group might be less attuned to suspicious apprehensions or censure for an injudicious or affected clemency.†   (source)
  • When, the night of the meeting, he told Abigail of his apprehensions, she burst into tears, but then, as Adams would relate, said "she thought I had done as I ought, she was very willing to share in all that was to come."†   (source)
  • It appears to me such an enterprise, the ocean so formidable, the quitting of my habitation and my country, leaving my children, my friends, with the idea that perhaps I may never see them again, without my husband to console and comfort me under these apprehensions—indeed, my dear friend, there are hours when I feel unequal to the trial.†   (source)
  • No, the orgasmic blockage was a simple matter of being swindled both by fright and by that suffocating quality of the Zeitgeist that made sex in midcentury America such a nightmarish Sargasso Sea of guilts and apprehensions.†   (source)
  • I had yet to meet a single author of a published book—unless one excepts the seedy old ex-Communist I have mentioned, who once accidentally blundered into my office at McGraw-Hill, smelling of garlic and the stale sweat of ancient apprehensions—and so that spring the Hunnicutt parties, which were frequent and of long duration, gave my imagination opportunity for the craziest flights of fancy that ever afflicted the brain of a lovelorn idolater.†   (source)
  • 'Mother, I grieve to hear you speak like this, though I have had my apprehensions that you would—' 'You knew I would.†   (source)
  • But, if his apprehensions should prove to be well founded, he was ready at any moment to lay down all he had, and begin the world anew.†   (source)
  • The woman was Under apprehensions of the dry old man, for she whisked her apron away as he approached, and disclosed a pale affrighted face.†   (source)
  • If I did not think of it, perhaps it was because my mind reverted to the apprehensions I had at the time that he might persevere and you might have something to say to him.†   (source)
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apprehension as in:  apprehension of the criminal

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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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apprehension as in:  apprehension of the situation

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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)
  • 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)
  • On every point of general literature he displays unbounded knowledge and a quick and piercing apprehension.   (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
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It had originated in misapprehension entirely.†   (source)
  • Vulgarity, ignorance, misapprehension, are old acquaintances.†   (source)
  • He saw the smile, and a strange misapprehension came over him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • To remove the liability of such misapprehension, I deem it proper to append the following brief explanation.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Oh, there must be some 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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  • But it was nothing compared to the apprehension I already felt building inside me at the prospect of meeting Art3mis once we reached Oregon.†   (source)
  • At home, burgeoning manhood was a trigger for apprehension.†   (source)
  • Will and I exchange a look, half surprise and half 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)
  • Any apprehension he may have had on Sol 1 was long gone.†   (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)
  • Somehow, that explanation doesn't ease my apprehension.†   (source)
  • He walked to the Lord Commander's Tower alone, with a curious sense of apprehension.†   (source)
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  • Racing along behind, Reynie saw his friends across the plaza, staring after him in wonder and not a little apprehension.†   (source)
  • He saw first the gray-blue of a jacket, and then the mute apprehension in the man's face.†   (source)
  • Cinder pulled the sopping rag from the bucket and put her apprehension to work, scrubbing Adri's hover to a fine gleam.†   (source)
  • Fear and apprehension forced her to think clearly, and it was only then that she remembered what she had said to her twins when they came to her bedroom door and asked her why she had been locked up.†   (source)
  • Gudgeon smiled, newborn confidence peeping through his apprehension.†   (source)
  • I knew she heard the tension in my voice, and she studied me with a trace of apprehension.†   (source)
  • The atoms in my head were spinning apart; the sparkle of the bump had already begun to turn, apprehension and disquiet moving in subtly like dark air before a thunderstorm.†   (source)
  • The knot of apprehension in Sirenio Gomez melts into pity.†   (source)
  • Eragon kept his bow partially drawn as they passed between the silent houses, glancing at each other with apprehension.†   (source)
  • In Safety The slow days drifted on, and each left behind a slightly lightened weight of apprehension.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I opened the book with some apprehension, wondering what archaic spelling and punctuation I would face.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Bast asked with a mix of apprehension and anger.†   (source)
  • From the small red wagon up ahead, Pari cried out his name, her voice high, shaking with apprehension.†   (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)
  • "We're only waiting for Alberto," said Sophie's mother to her in a somewhat brisk tone that was intended to hide her growing apprehension.†   (source)
  • It filled me with apprehension.†   (source)
  • Hodge hesitated—only for a moment, but Clary saw it, and felt a small and inexplicable shiver of apprehension run up her spine.†   (source)
  • He smiled at me, and I could see no trace of apprehension in his jewel-like eyes.†   (source)
  • Once or twice he'd asked questions of Miss Sue about Ole Miss that suggested a certain vague apprehension.†   (source)
  • Mary sensed my apprehension and gently reached for my hand and held it tight.†   (source)
  • To quote Steiner again, 'Our speech interposes itself between apprehension and truth like a dusty pane or warped mirror.†   (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)
  • My scalp tingled with apprehension.†   (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)
  • Yet he felt an angry apprehension at the fear he sensed radiating from his mother.†   (source)
  • Any impulse I might have felt toward self-congratulation was extinguished by overwhelming apprehension about the long, dangerous descent that lay ahead.†   (source)
  • I was shaking with both anger and apprehension.†   (source)
  • Her apprehension deepened, and she turned to look at the house, its dark brick rising into the white sky.†   (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)
  • And over it all, or under it all, a dull and unlocatable roar, as of some form of swarming life just outside the range of human 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)
  • She could see the apprehension in his smile.†   (source)
  • Relief segued into apprehension.†   (source)
  • Now that it had all been decided and there could be no turning back, Eric felt a sour and savage 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)
  • I could remember every such encounter; I could recall each face as it turned in hope and apprehension when the door opened.†   (source)
  • I feel a dart of apprehension as I see him leaning forward.†   (source)
  • "Do you know," he asked, "what the attitude of the people was in this community after the apprehension of these two men?"†   (source)
  • His mother's continuous apprehension-and attacks, like that night, of genuine panic-left Cedric certain there was danger everywhere.†   (source)
  • At the sight of Jake he felt a deep apprehension.†   (source)
  • Kate was looking at Antibbe with apprehension.†   (source)
  • And I can't help but notice that when they return to their meals, it's with a look of apprehension.†   (source)
  • "We are not under the least apprehension of an attack on this place from the rebels by surprise or otherwise," he assured his superiors in London and further stressed the point at a meeting with his general staff on December 3.†   (source)
  • In short, I watched the idea of violence growing in him, and apprehension in all of them, and I enjoyed myself (old hellroads-runner, earth-rim-roamer), sucking glee from spite,—O sucking to the pits!†   (source)
  • Her apprehension was evident in the hurried movements around the kitchen and in her lonely fearing eyes.†   (source)
  • Gripping the bough above with both hands, Milo began inching his way out on the limb sideways with utmost care and apprehension.†   (source)
  • Max took her hand and felt his apprehension wash away.†   (source)
  • If Moody still worried that Mahtob and I might try to escape his grasp, he could not act upon that apprehension.†   (source)
  • He sat down on the Hand, trembling with anger and apprehension.†   (source)
  • Pippa's voice is filled with apprehension.†   (source)
  • I didn't know which held more apprehension for me: going on chemo and gearing up for a bone marrow transplant or feeling my strength eaten away from the inside.†   (source)
  • He took off his tie and poured coffee and tried to ease her apprehension.†   (source)
  • She saw nothing untoward, but her apprehension increased.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, as Silver guided them southward along higher ground to the west of the farm, almost all, now that they were actually committed to the adventure, felt dread and apprehension.†   (source)
  • On this, my third visit, I felt no such apprehension whatsoever.†   (source)
  • Tom looked at the Roush with apprehension.†   (source)
  • The order to leave the mountain quickly changed Easy's mood to one of apprehension.†   (source)
  • So then why did he feel more apprehension than relief?†   (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)
  • Lately there's been a sense of something peculiar about this road, apprehension about something, as if we were being watched or followed.†   (source)
  • I headed the car through the red-brick campus gateposts with a sense of cold apprehension.†   (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)
  • Because the others in the operating room knew this, they looked up toward the overhead viewing gallery with apprehension when Leavitt appeared.†   (source)
  • No one talked; the dank air in the eerily lit abandoned store was tense with apprehension.†   (source)
  • The boys stared with apprehension at the older men; Cesar had found seven.†   (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)
  • His sudden apprehension of the moon, so close and full, riding over them like a huge airship, endeared it to him forever.†   (source)
  • In the midst of all the apprehension and wild sense of adventure, I felt an overwhelming calmness as I held my son.†   (source)
  • No, he thought, not dread, there's nothing to fear: just an immense, diffused apprehension, with no source or object.†   (source)
  • I have been restless and filled with apprehension.†   (source)
  • He saw apprehension flash across her face.†   (source)
  • Like all master dwarven smiths, he had been waiting for this moment with excitement and apprehension since the beginning of his long training.†   (source)
  • My paintings themselves he regards with wonder, and also apprehension, like a small child looking at a candle.†   (source)
  • By the time Joe left the bank, five minutes past closing time, the last customer to depart, he was weak-kneed with apprehension.†   (source)
  • Between the third and fourth day, my mood jumped back and forth erratically from wild exhilaration to gloomy apprehension.†   (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)
  • "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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I spilled out every sensation still fresh in my memory, every fear, every apprehension, and even stolen moments of delight and wonder.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • His face tightened with apprehension as he waited for my anger to explode.†   (source)
  • Kate had always been able to handle this ever-present danger, but now the slow-depositing calcium and the slow growth of apprehension caused her to need help and to look for it from Joe.†   (source)
  • He returned in an agitated state of mind, fearful of apprehension and further confinement.†   (source)
  • I gulped at the last beer, woozy with mingled apprehension and joy.†   (source)
  • In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet them with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed.†   (source)
  • There was apprehension, but little fear or panic, for no-one believed that the Overlords would take any violent or destructive action which would involve innocent and guilty alike.†   (source)
  • It was necessary that he lead her down into his world, yet not too abruptly, lest sight and apprehension of the future imperil her capacity to think clearly and act intelligently.†   (source)
  • MARY With a flash of apprehension.†   (source)
  • Rufus looked into his eyes with reproach and apprehension, and turned in at his walk.†   (source)
  • The beat keeps you running in circles, like: Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • His eyes should be wild with apprehension, given where we are, but they are still and dark.†   (source)
  • Thomas's apprehension grew with every step.†   (source)
  • We don't know what they want yet, he reminded himself, containing his growing apprehension.†   (source)
  • I asked, doing an extremely poor job of hiding my apprehension.†   (source)
  • Said that he had violated the SPAC, the Suspected Perpetrator Apprehension Code.†   (source)
  • Swallowing her apprehension, Sophie moved slowly across the room.†   (source)
  • They were looking at Mo with expressions of apprehension mingled with dislike.†   (source)
  • 'But what if that's the one?' said Ron, staring at it with a mixture of apprehension and longing.†   (source)
  • Langdon had a growing apprehension that there was far more going on than he could imagine.†   (source)
  • Harry had indeed been eyeing the Pensieve with some apprehension.†   (source)
  • Apprehension for the coming ordeal sickened Eragon to the point where he could barely move.†   (source)
  • The colonel bashar came striding toward the Baron, whose eyes went to slits of apprehension.†   (source)
  • There was a sound behind me and I turned in quick apprehension.†   (source)
  • A feeling of apprehension had begun to spread around the table.†   (source)
  • A small flower of apprehension began to open inside her chest.†   (source)
  • It's a wreck," she heard herself say softly, a flicker of apprehension in her voice.†   (source)
  • Eragon forced back his growing apprehension.†   (source)
  • As the chill rose through her flesh, she felt an unexpected apprehension.†   (source)
  • As alarm spread across their faces, Eragon's earlier apprehension returned.†   (source)
  • I looked back in sudden apprehension and Rufus laughed.†   (source)
  • Apprehension sank its poisonous claws into her belly.†   (source)
  • With apprehension he hurried down the hallway.†   (source)
  • We passed through metal detectors," Sophie reminded, apparently sensing Langdon's apprehension.†   (source)
  • A shiver of apprehension wormed down Eragon's side, like an icy snake.†   (source)
  • Eragon listened to his praise with growing apprehension.†   (source)
  • With apprehension, he approached the tree.†   (source)
  • Confusion and apprehension played across his youthful features.†   (source)
  • Was it my imagination, or was she looking at Amos with apprehension—even fear?†   (source)
  • There was apprehension on some faces but approval on most.†   (source)
  • Edklinth felt cold shivers of apprehension.†   (source)
  • Sheng Chou Yang stared in growing apprehension and fury.†   (source)
  • As Osney listened, apprehension slowly spread across his face.†   (source)
  • Ser Barristan watched with ill-concealed apprehension.†   (source)
  • Won't there always be apprehension about what may be revealed, exposed about the reader?†   (source)
  • The moment the door shut behind them, Clary sat down on the bed and regarded Max with apprehension.†   (source)
  • As I took the telephone receiver from my husband's hand, I felt a shiver of apprehension.†   (source)
  • It's what has taken them this far, Barbara muses— through apprehension, doubt, even fear.†   (source)
  • Under the skin on the back of Joe's neck, ticks of apprehension still burrowed and twitched.†   (source)
  • They could not decipher the expression on his face, except that it showed no sign of apprehension.†   (source)
  • It's in Kentucky," said Oralia with some apprehension as she read the headline.†   (source)
  • In his haste and excitement, and his apprehension, he had trouble buckling the straps.†   (source)
  • That same nervous apprehension was tingling on the surface of my skin.†   (source)
  • And I felt myself go tight with apprehension.†   (source)
  • His existence is not a question of argument but of apprehension.†   (source)
  • But I knew my apprehension was due to matters of trust.†   (source)
  • The drow noted Wulfgar's apprehension and smiled broadly.†   (source)
  • Eragon stared at the dark tunnel, feeling a sense of increasing apprehension.†   (source)
  • I saw terrible fatigue; I saw sadness and apprehension.†   (source)
  • He kissed my neck, my throat, and I confess I shuddered with apprehension.†   (source)
  • We are not under the least apprehension of an attack on this place by surprise or otherwise.†   (source)
  • He had been harboring a skittish apprehension that he was not real—that he didn't exist at all.†   (source)
  • There was almost no tension or apprehension between either of us anymore.†   (source)
  • An impatience mixed with guilt and apprehension.†   (source)
  • Excitement, apprehension, release and anger had drained me of mobility.†   (source)
  • It is meant to disarm us, but it seems only to increase my apprehension.†   (source)
  • Yossarian felt a cold, damp wind of apprehension blow over him.†   (source)
  • He was not troubled by any sense of being lost, or any apprehension about Mexican bandits.†   (source)
  • He was no citizen of the Walled City; his expression was a mixture of apprehension and disgust.†   (source)
  • When she saw the two of them, somberness turned to apprehension.†   (source)
  • She had turned in her seat and was regarding Miro and Artkin with apprehension.†   (source)
  • Whatever apprehension I had evaporated within minutes.†   (source)
  • At the head of the main bunch of cattle, Call surveyed the situation without too much apprehension.†   (source)
  • Clevinger declared with deep apprehension.†   (source)
  • Drizzt said nothing but smiled wryly, adding to the barbarian's apprehension.†   (source)
  • It's true," Alessandro agreed, sharing in her pride enough to banish his 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 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)
  • Gorgon's slithery voice is tinged with apprehension.†   (source)
  • "I hope none don't crawl in this wagon," Lippy said, his lip quivering with apprehension.†   (source)
  • My heart pounded with apprehension" but I found that the familiar tasks helped me keep my wits.†   (source)
  • Then, as she watched him, the apprehension vanished.†   (source)
  • For a moment, he regards me warily, but then his apprehension seems to be forgotten.†   (source)
  • For the most part I kept my apprehension to myself.†   (source)
  • Reading about it here brought a wave of apprehension.†   (source)
  • The thought of him leaving sent a ripple of apprehension through the camp.†   (source)
  • And I cannot shake the apprehension I feel about helping Pippa.†   (source)
  • Malachai's face was expressionless, but Randy sensed his apprehension.†   (source)
  • He enjoyed the scene of fear and apprehension before the skinny dame yanked her shade down.†   (source)
  • Grandma had thought my agitation and apprehension ofher over-familiar pigeons was love.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and diss—I'm ruined.†   (source)
  • The very matter-of-fact simplicity of that statement gave George a feeling of sick apprehension.†   (source)
  • Of course many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension and— "He was lying.†   (source)
  • Her chestnut hair was disheveled, her eyes, a deep and stirring blue, round in apprehension.†   (source)
  • Train schedules are a matter of pride and of apprehension to nearly everyone.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • Joe read her quick start, the apprehension, and then the almost hopeless fear and weariness.†   (source)
  • Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.†   (source)
  • Apprehension..."It's a game," Maria cried, "called 'Sardine.'†   (source)
  • An ache was on the top of his stomach, an apprehension that was like a sick thought.†   (source)
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