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worried over possible misfortune
- He rode for several miles, feeling very apprehensive.Chapters 11-12 (25% in)
- Roscoe was awake enough by then to feel apprehensive.Chapters 28-29 (14% in)
- He was watching the west in a way that made her apprehensive.Chapters 44-45 (70% in)
- Alone with the two men, in the middle of the great, empty prairie, she felt apprehensive.Chapters 52-53 (95% in)
- She lay awake for a long time, apprehensive, but the men sat by the fire, occasionally looking her way but making no move to disturb her.Chapters 52-53 (97% in)
- Elmira was apprehensive, fearing a fight then and there, but Zwey seemed to have forgotten the whole business.Chapters 66-67 (18% in)
- The remark caused much apprehension among the men, and they were apprehensive anyway, mainly because everyone they met in Ogal-lala assured them they were dead men if they tried to go to Montana.Chapters 89-90 (7% in)
There are no more uses of "apprehensive" in Lonesome Dove.
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