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apprehensive
in
Call It Sleep
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- He looked up apprehensively at his father.†
Book 1 *
- Full of misgivings, unnerved at the ordeal of facing strangers alone, strangers of whom his own father seemed apprehensive, he entered the hallway, climbed the stairs.†
Book 1apprehensive = nervous or worried
- David sprang from his seat, gazed apprehensively at his mother.†
Book 1
- The mind too was tangled, apprehensive, pent-up.†
Book 1apprehensive = nervous or worried
- Seeing her alarm, David squirmed back into his chair and watched them apprehensively under the rims of lowered eyes.†
Book 1
- "Yes, yes," said his mother apprehensively.†
Book 2
- And David who was staring at her partly in wonder at her rashness, partly in guilty elation, caught his mother's apprehensive look directed at himself.†
Book 2apprehensive = nervous or worried
- "No!" apprehensively.†
Book 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(apprehensive) worried over possible misfortune
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)