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  • Behind her stood the Dwarf and the Skeleton, silent, shifting, apprehensive.   (source)
    apprehensive = nervous or worried
  • Jason sat silently, and as I looked at him, I had to admit he did seem very quiet and a bit apprehensive.   (source)
  • An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake, and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle.   (source)
    apprehensive = full of worry over possible misfortune
  • Apprehensively I ruffle the hair by my left ear.†   (source)
  • You'd be surprised," said Ron, who was looking apprehensively at the book.†   (source)
  • But he is more apprehensive than he used to be.†   (source)
  • But I was apprehensive about moving away from my friends, from the only world I'd known.†   (source)
  • I must say, Bishop, all of us would feel less apprehensive if these funds were in cash.†   (source)
  • Charlie had been apprehensive about meeting with the Jenningses because he thought they wouldn't like him, but he told me after they left how much they seemed to care about him and how comforting that was.†   (source)
  • The obstacle won't be comfortable for me, but because I have been able to manipulate every simulation, not just this one, and because I have already gone through Tobias's landscape, I am not apprehensive as Lauren inserts the needle into my neck.†   (source)
  • Within minutes they would be admitted to the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, and they were apprehensive.†   (source)
  • One might think we would have celebrated the news, but, in fact, we were apprehensive about what it could mean for us.†   (source)
  • So on that superficial level I was unprepared for Dan Needham, who was tall and gawky, with curly carrot-colored hair, and who wore eyeglasses that were too small for his egg-shaped face—the perfectly round lenses giving him the apprehensive, hunting expression of a large, mutant owl.†   (source)
  • When the wind is blowing, which it almost always is, with the walls groaning and the shutters banging, the rooms overloaded and the staircase wound tightly up through its center, the house seems the material equivalent of her uncle's inner being: apprehensive, isolated, but full of cobwebby wonders.†   (source)
  • She lay rigidly apprehensive, held at knifepoint, knowing that fear would not let her sleep and that her only hope was in keeping still.†   (source)
  • When Molly opens the bedroom door to Dina's and Ralph's tense and apprehensive faces, she smiles.†   (source)
  • The car of the apprehensive visitor was still there.†   (source)
  • In spite of his parents' excitement, there was always a solemnity accompanying these preparations, Ashima and Ashoke at once apprehensive and eager, steeling themselves to find fewer faces at the airport in Calcutta, to confront the deaths of relatives since the last time they were there.†   (source)
  • Jorge turned in a slow circle, scanning the area around them, and Thomas did the same, wondering what had suddenly made the older man so apprehensive.†   (source)
  • They were words he had to say, and so he said them, apprehensive about what might come next.†   (source)
  • Apprehensively, I went through the library door.†   (source)
  • Arthur struggled to his feet and hugged himself apprehensively.†   (source)
  • I squeeze my eyes shut apprehensively, not wanting to turn around to see him standing there in all his beautiful glory.†   (source)
  • No. Jason glanced apprehensively at the other kids: maybe twenty guys, half that many girls.†   (source)
  • Popper had stopped barking and was looking between us apprehensively like he was trying to figure out what was going on.†   (source)
  • ALBUS and SCORPIUS are looking at a STATIONMASTER, apprehensively.†   (source)
  • Danny turned apprehensively to the closed bedroom door at the end of the hallway and walked quietly down to it.†   (source)
  • He approached apprehensively, aware now that it was an equal.†   (source)
  • He studied my face apprehensively, and I sighed.†   (source)
  • We briefed them and wandered, a bit apprehensively, over to the chow hall for lunch.†   (source)
  • I cried, and then cast an apprehensive glance at a camp policeman nearby.†   (source)
  • Her face in pouchy sleep might have been a structure designed solely to protect the eyes, those great, large and apprehensive things, prone to color phases and a darting alertness, to a perception of distress in others.†   (source)
  • I asked apprehensively.†   (source)
  • Simon looked apprehensively at Luke.†   (source)
  • The Sutherlands look at me apprehensively.†   (source)
  • Call us crazy, but we were a little apprehensive this time, almost to the point of not wanting to go.†   (source)
  • He backed up, looked apprehensively at the stairs for a few seconds, and loped up and into the house.†   (source)
  • Sophie opened the big envelope apprehensively, wondering whether it would contain anything about the cabin and the boat.†   (source)
  • I wasn't afraid, a little apprehensive, maybe, but not afraid.†   (source)
  • He felt a little guilty that she knew the real reason he was apprehensive to approach the cops.†   (source)
  • Her face looks apprehensive.†   (source)
  • He was too apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Mahtob was apprehensive but visibly calmer than during the two previous mornings.†   (source)
  • She would have to go home and she was relieved to discover that she was apprehensive, but not guilty.†   (source)
  • She looks apprehensive, twisting her fingers and avoiding making eye contact.†   (source)
  • She was glad—something in her had just shut down every time she imagined him driving away again—but she was suddenly a little apprehensive too.†   (source)
  • Hazel looked at Fiver apprehensively.†   (source)
  • Johnnie questioned, staring up at him with apprehensive eyes.†   (source)
  • No, Miro was not apprehensive about the delivery of death; he worried only that he would not: do a professional job.†   (source)
  • He rode for several miles, feeling very apprehensive.†   (source)
  • I'm apprehensive.†   (source)
  • I felt apprehensive throughout breakfast.†   (source)
  • I felt apprehensive about rattlesnakes and wanted to get back to the road.†   (source)
  • 'Now I will let you sleep with me,' she explained cautiously in a manner of apprehensive indulgence.†   (source)
  • Obviously they were apprehensive about four marriages in one household and whether Baba would come through with the promised bride-price for Elder Brother's wife, adequate dowries for the three girls, and, most important, the matchmaking fees.†   (source)
  • Aunt Del was apprehensive.†   (source)
  • In the days when she had had nine suitors kneeling round her in a circle, she guarded her nakedness apprehensively, as though trying to express the value of her body in terms of the modesty she accorded it.†   (source)
  • I glance apprehensively up at Tarquin—and to my complete disbelief, he looks really interested.†   (source)
  • He stood up, bedraggled, stiff, and somewhat shrunken in his borrowed scrubs, relieved but apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Nudge asked, sounding apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Most of the students had been waiting apprehensively to hear who would be asked to read.†   (source)
  • "Ask me again in six innings," he said apprehensively.†   (source)
  • The pilot— the most junior of the Bo officers—sat stiff and apprehensive.†   (source)
  • He was gravely, realistically apprehensive about the magnitude of the enemy force en route.†   (source)
  • That was such a monstrous crime that Edklinth felt yet more apprehensive.†   (source)
  • I was slightly apprehensive because I was overly cautious and felt things were happening way too fast.†   (source)
  • She didn't know why, but suddenly she felt apprehensive.†   (source)
  • He wasn't apprehensive about dying in another crash.†   (source)
  • She watched apprehensively while I cut the lace.†   (source)
  • And, finally, "Are you apprehensive about what the politics of 'multiculturalism' is going to mean to the future of civilization?†   (source)
  • She looked apprehensively around the kitchen.†   (source)
  • The little girl for whom it was clearly intended, a redhead wearing blue shorts and a Tshirt with a giraffe on it, stood holding her mom's hand, looking apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Mr. Thompson emitted a long whistle and shook his head apprehensively.†   (source)
  • Rafi asked apprehensively as the train rumbled forward, the sound of its engine shaking everything around them and penetrating their chests so that their voices vibrated.†   (source)
  • He sighs the sigh of a onehundred-year-old man and gives me an apprehensive, distrustful look.†   (source)
  • The warriors apprehensively drew their clubs and stone-headed axes, and the females and children huddled in the back of the group.†   (source)
  • Here and there along the road people came out to see the troops go by and there were a few cheers, but most of the people were silent and glum, not hostile, apprehensive.†   (source)
  • She could tell by his voice that he was a little apprehensive, but she assured him she just needed a teeny little favor.†   (source)
  • Even Louisa stared out apprehensively into the darkness.†   (source)
  • He seemed suddenly apprehensive.†   (source)
  • There was a spark of gaiety in her eyes, but when I laughed she put her hand over my mouth apprehensively.†   (source)
  • I lifted the side of the canoe, stuck out my head, and peered upward into the bewildered and rather apprehensive face of a young man clad all in caribou furs.†   (source)
  • Ralph listened apprehensively.†   (source)
  • Whether, when seeing a dead Vietnamese, to be happy or sad or relieved; whether, in times of quiet, to be apprehensive or content; whether to engage the enemy or elude him.†   (source)
  • I was both excited and apprehensive.†   (source)
  • She glanced up, apprehensively, through the kitchen window.†   (source)
  • However, the intense Jewishness of the little scene—like a recitatif in some Yiddish comic opera—caused me to grow a bit apprehensive about another aspect of my onrushing encounter with Leslie.†   (source)
  • He peered at the rocks a little apprehensively, half-expecting some Martian monster to come leaping out; indeed, from the far side of a jagged outcrop of granite, he could, now that he listened carefully, hear something that sounded rather like a Martian feeding: a sort of scrunching-mingled-with-heavy-breathing noise.†   (source)
  • All my apprehensive feelings disappeared.†   (source)
  • He waited for her cry or scream and looked apprehensively at the closed door.†   (source)
  • It was a startled look, I thought, and apprehensive as well.†   (source)
  • His silence made her more apprehensive than hearing something terrible would have.†   (source)
  • She looked toward him, apprehensively polite, her beg-pardon smile, by habit, on her face; and saw his bearded head, unexpectedly close and huge in the light, nodding deeply and slowly, five times.†   (source)
  • She bursts through the door, out of breath, apprehensive.†   (source)
  • In the unwonted quiet we all wondered apprehensively what would happen next.†   (source)
  • His manner is nervously apprehensive and he looks more sickly than in the previous act.†   (source)
  • All of us were apprehensive of our future under the proposed White Republic, and a resolution was taken to hold an All-In African Conference to call for a National Convention, and to organize mass demonstrations on the eve of the unwanted Republic, if the Government failed to call the Convention.†   (source)
  • The waitress, setting the tray of beer down on a back table, comes up taut and apprehensive as a hen.†   (source)
  • (Apprehensive, looks after NORFOLK) My God, I hope it's understood I make no gesture!†   (source)
  • And then he looked apprehensively to the east.   (source)
    apprehensively = worriedly over possible misfortune
  • She was suddenly apprehensive.   (source)
    apprehensive = worried
  • Thomas looked apprehensive.   (source)
  • Father Hooper at first replied merely by a feeble motion of his head; then, apprehensive, perhaps, that his meaning might be doubted, he exerted himself to speak.   (source)
  • Because the space was underground, Langdon had been apprehensive about passing through it.†   (source)
  • Or maybe I am too apprehensive about what's coming to grieve properly.†   (source)
  • He didn't look as apprehensive as I thought he should.†   (source)
  • "And they grow into … ?" said Ron, looking apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Besides, after last night, my new young master made me more apprehensive than ever.†   (source)
  • Looking extremely apprehensive, Krum moved forward and squatted down next to Mr. Crouch.†   (source)
  • Ron said, but at that moment Hermione got to her feet, and he looked apprehensive again.†   (source)
  • He sounded apprehensive, like a father about to give the birds-and-the-bees lecture to his children.†   (source)
  • The girl looked apprehensive, clearly wishing she had not challenged their guest speaker.†   (source)
  • I kept my eyes on him, still apprehensive.†   (source)
  • A glance from her yesterday seemed apprehensive, almost frightened.†   (source)
  • Apprehensive, he darted across an opening, trying to remember exactly where Orik was sitting.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, he was starting to feel very apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Some looked apprehensive, others entertained.†   (source)
  • I glanced up, apprehensive, and saw that his expression was pained.†   (source)
  • Ron and Hermione shook their heads, looking apprehensive.†   (source)
  • 'Oh yeah?' said Ron, sounding apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Apprehensive, he went to the door and saw two soldiers dragging the elf down the hallway.†   (source)
  • 'Of course,' said Umbridge, though she sounded a little apprehensive now.†   (source)
  • Mrs Weasley hesitated, looking apprehensive.†   (source)
  • 'Well… you…' she looked more apprehensive than ever.†   (source)
  • The various teachers who used the room were uneasy—you could tell they were apprehensive.†   (source)
  • We shake our heads, offer apprehensive nos.†   (source)
  • He's a creature more like myself: alien and apprehensive.†   (source)
  • He's apprehensive as I grab the microphone from him and turn toward the audience.†   (source)
  • Tie him up,' said David, turning to the apprehensive Pak-fei.†   (source)
  • The youngest, Mandel, appeared apprehensive, but Roran knew his nerves would hold.†   (source)
  • No sign of Blitz or Hearthstone, which made me apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Years later, Henry Clinton would remember Howe being extremely apprehensive.†   (source)
  • You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy.†   (source)
  • There were other figures in the hall, listening with an apprehensive curiosity.†   (source)
  • Behind one door, Jose found Angel sitting fully dressed on his bed, looking apprehensive.†   (source)
  • "Army?" asked the man, his voice intense, once more apprehensive.†   (source)
  • When Alessandro had awakened he was apprehensive of the cold and the wind.†   (source)
  • Despite Roran's encouragement, Eragon still felt apprehensive before his speech.†   (source)
  • This was going to be our first partnership, and I was very apprehensive.†   (source)
  • People stared at him strangely, making him more apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Apprehensive and confused, they formed a defensive line across the flat rock.†   (source)
  • Ah, do not look so apprehensive, Eragon.†   (source)
  • He was watching the west in a way that made her apprehensive.†   (source)
  • He was trussed up like a chicken, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't apprehensive.†   (source)
  • But he was apprehensive of too much diffidence.†   (source)
  • He had held similar blocks before and grew apprehensive for a moment.†   (source)
  • Though Guariglia was apprehensive, he didn't protest, so great was his love of Cuban tobacco.†   (source)
  • Alone with the two men, in the middle of the great, empty prairie, she felt apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Roscoe was awake enough by then to feel apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Randy walked toward the back door and the Henrys converged on him, their faces apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Edmund is made apprehensive by her strangeness.†   (source)
  • In the kitchen, waiting for the cook to boil the egg, he was apprehensive.†   (source)
  • She cleaned up after the little kids, too apprehensive to eat more than a biscuit herself.†   (source)
  • Papa looked into Lena's apprehensive face.†   (source)
  • Vittoria found it ironic that she felt more apprehensive in this unlit church than she would swimming at night with barracuda.†   (source)
  • Earlier, when they had met Tariq at the door, Zalmai had clutched the basketball close to his chest and stuck a thumb in his mouth-something he didn't do anymore except when he was apprehensive.†   (source)
  • He had red hair and a large red beard, and was wearing a black suit of the Sunday-best kind that most men have now if they are at all comfortable in worldly goods, with a white shirt and a dark stock, and a tall hat which he was carrying in his hands, held in front of him like a shield, by which I could tell that he too was apprehensive.†   (source)
  • I was also, in equal measure, buoyed that Nila had taken such keen interest in me and apprehensive, for I anticipated my discomfort—and, yes, my shame—when I showed her the poverty into which I had been born.†   (source)
  • When Jean Louise felt apprehensive, expectant, or on edge, especially when confronting her aunt, her brain clicked to the meter of Gilbertian tomfoolery.†   (source)
  • It was the sort of thing you could keep doing and not feel bored or apprehensive or disconcerted or bothered by much of anything except the fact that the metal bar on the sofa bed was digging into your back.†   (source)
  • The apprehensive mood was shot through with shafts of gaiety, as a black sky is streaked with lightning.†   (source)
  • And there I sat, unarmed, largely useless, and highly apprehensive about what might happen in the next hour.†   (source)
  • She gave the other two an apprehensive look; they all took deep breaths and then dived at the gnarled stump between them.†   (source)
  • None of us knows where we are headed, and I think that except for the very youngest, each of us is apprehensive and fearful.†   (source)
  • I'm rather apprehensive.†   (source)
  • "I shall require your help," Ned said when Tomard appeared, looking faintly apprehensive, as he always did when called before his lord.†   (source)
  • For various reasons I was apprehensive about accommodations, and ready to make my excuses in case they involved anything like squatter conditions or sleeping on the floor.†   (source)
  • Apprehensive coworkers had falsely and publicly accused the men of wearing Discipline belts beneath their three-piece suits.†   (source)
  • Tom looked apprehensive.†   (source)
  • From what Harry could see of them (they were standing in Madame Maxime's enormous shadow), they were staring up at Hogwarts with apprehensive looks on their faces.†   (source)
  • Apprehensive, Eragon tried to remember if he had seen any breaks in the mountains around them; he had not thought about Murtagh's dilemma for a while.†   (source)
  • Okay," said Harry, trying to sound as though he wasn't apprehensive at all and merely glad that Lupin had found such a good substitute for a real dementor.†   (source)
  • Moody's magical eye spun around to stare at Ron; Ron looked extremely apprehensive, but after a moment Moody smiled — the first time Harry had seen him do so.†   (source)
  • He took the last few steps at a run, wrenched open the door and almost collided with Mr Weasley, who was standing right outside, looking pale and apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Ron departed for the Quidditch pitch and Harry, after attempting to flatten his hair while staring at his reflection in the back of a teaspoon, proceeded alone to the Entrance Hall to meet Cho, feeling very apprehensive and wondering what on earth they were going to talk about.†   (source)
  • At age forty-two he was bound for an unimaginably distant world apart, with very little idea of what was in store and every cause to be extremely apprehensive.†   (source)
  • But he was also wary of it, he was hesitant, he wanted to say something unsolemn because anything about his father made him apprehensive.†   (source)
  • As Eragon lowered the barriers around his mind, he noted that the two magicians appeared apprehensive, and he drew some comfort from the observation.†   (source)
  • A little giddy, perhaps apprehensive, as it were, we were directed into our seats by the wizened woman and told to remain silent.†   (source)
  • His voice was tight, apprehensive.†   (source)
  • After a moment she said, "Neither have I." She said it quickly, as though she had just popped a pill into her mouth and were surprised at its taste and apprehensive about its effects.†   (source)
  • He felt perplexed and apprehensive.†   (source)
  • Now, as he approached adolescence, Stephen at times seemed apprehensive about his place in the world.†   (source)
  • He was naturally overjoyed that her refusal to go to Palermo was actually a call to love, but he was a bit sorry as well: his mistress seemed determined to violate the zone of Purity he had introduced into their relationship; she had failed to understand his apprehensive attempts to save their love from banality and separate it radically from his conjugal home.†   (source)
  • The young man, as it happened, was a senior at American University, and although he obviously adored his grandfather, he was just as obviously apprehensive about being any part of the old man's endeavors.†   (source)
  • Lying in this garden now, so warm, covered, and apprehensive, he saw them on the angular, blazing streets of his childhood, and in the shuttered houses, and in the fields.†   (source)
  • Even I, who had read a few books about America since the downfall of the Gang of Four and didn't totally believe what I had learned in the past, was still suspicious and apprehensive.†   (source)
  • He knew that his wards would protect them from the lightning, but he still felt apprehensive about venturing near the crackling bolts of energy.†   (source)
  • It is human nature to be apprehensive about stepping back into the batter's box after being hit with a baseball, but Fidel merely tightened his grip on the bat: and hit Caldarola's first pitch into left field for a base hit.†   (source)
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