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worried over possible misfortune
- In that sense I do feel apprehensive — I have no wish to talk nonsense.Chapter 14 (87% in)
- Here I walked about for a long time, feeling very strange, and mortally apprehensive of some one coming in and kidnapping me; for I believed in kidnappers, their exploits having frequently figured in Bessie's fireside chronicles.Chapter 5 (13% in)
- Are you apprehensive of the new sphere you are about to enter?Chapter 25 (43% in)
- The disquietude of his air, the somewhat apprehensive impatience of his manner, surprised me: but I proceeded.Chapter 25 (66% in)
There are no more uses of "apprehensive" in Jane Eyre.
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