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Sentences starting with apprehension

Apprehension of something like this, and no unwillingness to sustain you, has always been my reason for withholding McDowell's force from you. [7]
Apprehension came to her face. [11]
Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. [7]
Apprehension of public danger and facilities for treasonable practices have diminished with the passions which prompted heedless persons to adopt them. [7]

Sentences ending with apprehension

Mrs. Armour also was not free from apprehension. [11]
But here he was a stranger, at least on his professional rounds, and when he asked for Miss Euthymia the servant, who knew his face well, stared as if he had held in his hand a warrant for her apprehension. [6]
The day waned to its close, and the waiting multitudes outside the palace grew crazed with anxiety and apprehension. [5]
Is anybody beginning to feel it a burden, this sweet festival of charity and good-will, and to look forward to it with apprehension? [4]
He looked forward to any definite separation (as marriage) with apprehension. [11]
They left near three-quarters of an hour before the train was to start for New York; and for the first quarter of an hour after they left, Denzil was in apprehension. [11]
The King seized this opportunity to state his case; and he did it with an eloquence inspired by uneasiness and apprehension. [5]
The wound which the Seigneur got at last, meant to be mortal, was saved from that by the facility of a quick apprehension. [11]
As she entered the open space in front of the house, she heard footsteps behind her and turned quickly, not without apprehension. [11]
He might have said he loved her for it--with a kind of love which can be spoken of without blushing or giving cause to blush, or reason for jealousy, anger, or apprehension. [11]

Short sentences using apprehension

And yet my apprehension increased. [9]

More example sentences with the word apprehension in them

He lay there writhing with pain and quaking with apprehension, but straining every muscle in frantic efforts to get up. [5]
He entered, not without some apprehension engendered by the legends which make it famous. [4]
We looked on without apprehension, for they were fast getting past ability to go for help against us, and the arena was far enough from the public road to be safe from intrusion. [5]
Newspapers reported, one with apprehension, another with tyrannous comment, mutinous troubles in the fleet. [11]
But, during the whole of her recital, she could not rid herself of the apprehension that he was thinking her interference unwarranted, her coming an indelicate repetition of the other visit. [9]
With a cry which was no longer doubt, but agonized apprehension, she threw the Thing from her with a motion of both hands and feet; and, as she did so, she felt a horrible cold air breathing from a bloodless body, chill her hand. [11]
And yet there were those among them who had a well-grounded apprehension that the "Inglesi" would win in the end. [11]
My greatest apprehension was that we might be derailed and the despatches captured; for as fast as our army had advanced, the track of it had closed again, like the wake of a ship at sea. [9]
Then I should want a better pair of eyes and a better pair of ears, and, while I was reorganizing, perhaps a quicker apprehension and a more retentive memory; in short, a new outfit, bodily and mental. [6]
All anxiety, apprehension, uncertainty, vanished out of these young people's hearts and left them filled with a great peace. [5]
It is a truism to say that the genuine creations in fiction take their places in general apprehension with historical characters, and sometimes they live more vividly on the printed page and on canvas than the others in their pale, contradictory, and incomplete lives. [4]
It was left to the man of the reedy lake to pay the penalty of apprehension, to suffer the effects of crime upon a nature not naturally criminal. [11]
Before I proceed to the body of the subject, I will further remark, that it is not without a considerable degree of apprehension that I venture to cross the track of the gentleman from Coles [Mr. Linder]. [7]
New Jersey is, to the apprehension of a traveller, a double-headed suburb rather than a State. [6]
I should wish to keep it in rational strength and coolness; but to do so I must determinedly resist the kindly-meant, but too irksome expression of an apprehension, for the realisation or defeat of which I have no possible power to be responsible. [14]
When she reached the vestibule she had a moment of sharp apprehension, of paradoxical hope, that Ditmar might still be there, awaiting her. [9]
The apprehension of the untried is apt to be sharp at such moments, and I looked for them to turn their backs upon me for an impertinent provincial. [9]
Stafford turned to the staircase and saw--in blue, in the old sentimental blue--Jasmine slowly descending, a strange look of apprehension in her face. [11]
I know what the painful point with you is at all times when you are unhappy; it is an apprehension that you do not love her as you should. [7]
And what between the foul air and my resentment, and apprehension lest John Paul would come hither after me, I was in prodigious discomfort of body and mind. [9]
During the night the feeling of unhappiness and apprehension increased. [10]
The apprehension, therefore, that the public lands were in danger of being wrested from the General Government by the strength of the delegation in Congress from the new States, was utterly futile. [7]
We knew beforehand that the number of the party would not exceed twelve; but she suffered the whole day from an acute headache brought on by apprehension of the evening. [14]
From the day that that dreary news came we had one scare after another, the marauders coming almost to our doors every now and then; so that we lived in ever-increasing apprehension, and yet were somehow mercifully spared from actual attack. [5]
And the thing that kept me always in a sweat of apprehension was the fact that every fresh blunder he made increased the lustre of his reputation! [5]
In the true swordsman there is found that curious sixth sense, which is a combination of touch, sight, apprehension, divination. [11]
She had a sudden apprehension of an unusual quality called "the genteel," for no storekeeper in Chaudiere ever opened or shut a shop-door for anybody. [11]
Some vague apprehension succeeded, and, yielding to the strong inclination it awakened, she drew nearer to the place; not advancing across the open field, however, but creeping towards it by the hedge. [12]
Then came the story of that other incident, sufficiently alluded to already, which had produced such an ecstasy of fright and left such a nightmare of apprehension in the household. [6]
An hour later Stephen descended to the veranda, and it was with apprehension that he discerned Mr. Carvel seated under the vines at the far end. [9]
He tried to speak naturally, casually, but his own voice sounded strange, seemed to strike the exact note of sickening apprehension that suddenly possessed him. [9]
At Grunth also some apprehension and alarm could be felt, but the nearer Prince Andrew came to the French lines the more confident was the appearance of our troops. [2]
That was why so strange a coldness, as of apprehension or anxiety, had passed through Jasmine when the rider had come towards her out of the night. [11]
David felt a shiver of anxiety and apprehension as he saw this sharp, sweeping advance. [11]
Yet once again she said the word scarcely above a whisper, for the look of rapt wonder and apprehension in his manner overcame her. [11]
Roxana spoke up sharply now, and there was apprehension in her voice. [5]
He would have seen that apprehension came to her eyes. [11]
There is certainly room for difference of opinion as to whether so precocious a woman, as her intelligent apprehension of affairs shows her to have been, should have remained unmarried till the age of eighteen. [4]
She had no remorse for the act, but only a faint apprehension of the possible consequences. [11]
I do not remember that you have expressed any apprehension as to the danger of having your communication cut on the river below you, yet I do not suppose it can have escaped your attention. [7]
That gentleman had referred to the report made to the House by the Postmaster-General, and had intimated an apprehension that gentlemen would be disposed to rely, on that report alone, and derive their views of the case from that document alone. [7]
Anger, apprehension, indignation, possessed her, but she held herself firmly. [11]
Already the liberal party throughout the world express the apprehension that "the one retrograde institution in America is undermining the principles of progress, and fatally violating the noblest political system the world ever saw. [7]
Her face was pale and distraught; her blue eyes, with their long, melancholy lashes, stared at him in appealing apprehension. [11]
They came up out of the gorge silent, and drove back to the hotel full of nervous apprehension. [4]
Janet's eyes fell on the bureau, marked the absence of several knick-knacks, including a comb and brush, and with a sudden sickness of apprehension she darted to the wardrobe and flung open the doors. [9]
Her first thought on seeing him was one of apprehension for Young Aleck and those of Young Aleck's name. [11]
It seemed composite of paralyzing surprise, of anxiety, of apprehension. [11]
But it is of much less consequence what a man thinks and says when he is changed by pain, weakness, apprehension, than what he thinks when he is truly and wholly himself. [6]
Since the spire of Chichester Cathedral fell in 1861, sheathing itself in its tower like a sword dropping into its scabbard, one can hardly help looking with apprehension at all these lofty fabrics. [6]
This apprehension is not well founded. [4]
His apprehension had no foundation in any knowledge, yet he had felt that Ingolby had no love for him, and this disturbed the egregious vanity of a narrow nature. [11]
He had seen no fear, no apprehension anywhere, only a defiant anger which acted swiftly, coolly. [11]
I reasoned with myself: Why should I not have outgrown that idle apprehension which had been the nightmare of my earlier years? [6]
In all this Mrs. Glow manifested a deep interest, and learned, by observing out of the corner of her eye, that Irene was in an agony of apprehension, which she tried to conceal under an increasing coolness of civility. [4]
This was a moment of pride for Lapierre, but of apprehension for Madelinette. [11]
At this distressful moment a message came from the General, and I went to his tent, trying to calm myself, but overcome with apprehension. [11]
Then the small mob began to take its revenge--revenge for the discomfort and apprehension it had brought upon itself by its own too rash freshness of a little while before. [5]
It can be measured by the standards of all times without misgiving or apprehension as to the result. [5]
And yet she looked forward to Henderson's coming with a sort of nervous apprehension, amounting almost to dread. [4]
On Wednesday we looked for a reply from Bristol, if not for the appearance of Bell himself, and when neither came apprehension seized us lest he had already sailed for Maryland. [9]
If the poet lives in a world apart from the vulgar, the most lenient apprehension of him is that his is a sort of fool's paradise. [4]
Even with this light sketching of the event she could not avoid a retrospective pang of apprehension, and the tightened grasp of his hand was as if she were holding him fast from that and all other peril. [4]
I noticed this latter circumstance, and it soon began to fill me with apprehension. [5]
That was all.... Janet sank down in the rocking-chair, her hands clasped together, overwhelmed by the sudden apprehension of the tragedy that had lurked, all unsuspected, in the darkness: a tragedy, not of Lise alone, but in which she herself was somehow involved. [9]
But as then it had only been two days since I had been bruised and beaten under a hasty and false apprehension of facts, my caution was somewhat aroused. [5]
Now that he is away, I feel far more gently towards him, it is only close by that I grow rigid, stiffening with a strange mixture of apprehension and anger, which nothing softens but his retreat, and a perfect subduing of his manner. [14]
So I went into the harbor of Sebastopol with fear and trembling--full of a vague, horrible apprehension that I was going to be found out and hanged. [5]
Multitudes of fairly intelligent people are afloat without any base-line of thought to which they can refer new suggestions; just as many politicians are floundering about for want of an apprehension of the Constitution of the United States and of the historic development of society. [4]
It suddenly produced in their minds a feeling of apprehension, as though there was whispered in their ears, "Something is going to happen--beware! [11]
I had indulged in a prejudice, up to that hour, that youth was the budding time of life, and this clock-dial, perpetually twitting me with its seedy moral, always had a forbidding look to my vernal apprehension. [6]
For an hour I watched it, now in a shiver of apprehension lest it pass us by, now weeping in an ecstasy of joy over a possible deliverance. [9]
So used had I grown to seeing her in the simple linen dresses she had worn in the country, a costume associated with exclusive possession, that the sight of her travelling suit and hat renewed in me an agony of apprehension. [9]
She was careful, however, not to show any of this apprehension to Philip; she showed it only by an increased affectionate interest in him and his concerns, and in trying to make the old home more dear to him. [4]
She would not, however, leave the table, but sat the dinner out, to Frank's apprehension. [11]
She felt the hook now, and her spines were rising, partly with apprehension, partly with irritation. [6]
The Celebrity lost his resentment; apprehension took its place. [9]
He stated that his investigations had discovered nothing of importance, except, perhaps, the confirmation of the sorrowful apprehension that the admirable Myrtilus had been killed by the marauders. [10]
Giddiness had seized her, and her heart, whose tendency to disease had long awakened the apprehension of the physicians, contracted convulsively. [10]
He saw in her the awakening of the deeper interests of life, the tremulous apprehension of nascent emotions and passions which, at some time or other, give beauty and importance to the nature of every human being. [11]
What can equal her tact, her delicacy, her subtlety of apprehension, her quickness to feel the changes of temperature as the warm and cool currents of talk blow by turns? [6]
For a time he sat fascinated by the ferocity of the event, his eyes following the hurrying wife and the jaunty, swaggering master-carpenter with a strange, animal-like dismay and apprehension. [11]
Towards the last he grew bolder, and said many a biting thing to both the governor and myself, which more than once turned his sister's face pale with apprehension, for she had a nice sense of kindness. [11]
Lifting the dish, he drained it at a gasp, though the milk almost choked him, and, to the apprehension of his hostess, set the bowl spinning on the table like a top. [11]
Admiring Crozier as he did, he also had underneath all his knowledge of life an unreasonable apprehension of man's weakness where a woman was concerned. [11]
Everybody was in haste, too, to push on his private plan, and feverish in his haste, as if in constant apprehension that tomorrow would be Judgment Day. [5]
Is a man happier, or improved in character, by the woful tale of a world's distress and apprehension that greets him every morning at breakfast? [4]
Archias's wealthy friends had no such apprehension. [10]
The Young Doctor had come and gone, amazed at first, but presently with a look of apprehension in his eyes. [11]
He is a good-looking fellow, well developed, manly in appearance, with nothing to excite special remark unless it be a certain look of anxiety or apprehension which comes over him from time to time. [6]
He was not going to expose himself to any particular danger this evening; a walk in a quiet village was as free from risk as Helen Darley or his own mother could ask; yet he had an unaccountable feeling of apprehension, without any definite object. [6]
But gradually, as from time to time she glanced covertly at Hannah's face, her resentment gave way to apprehension. [9]
They, also, were frightened by the mystery and allusiveness of the tales, and had an apprehension that they would not be popular. [11]
And now a fresh anxiety and apprehension rose in his mind as he glanced at Kaid. [11]
His old arrogance fought for mastery over his apprehension. [11]
Nevertheless, the letter filled Honora with a deep apprehension and a deeper resentment. [9]
She could not fathom whether it was curiosity, devotion, gratitude, or apprehension and distrust--but the expression on all the faces was identical. [2]
Dada covered her face with her hands, and his mother turned pale and knit her brows with apprehension. [10]
The Kadi's benevolent face expressed extreme apprehension, and the contents of the letter were indeed such as to cause it. [10]
No one had expressly said this to him; but, while he was hurrying through the city in Caesar's chariot, on the ladies' message, it had been made very plain to his apprehension. [10]

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