Adjective : apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers. From Dictionary.com.
TUCKER: In that song, "Long White Dress," the narrator recalls apprehensiveness about getting married. From Wordnik.com. [An Invigorating Tonic About 'Love And Its Opposite'] Reference
I feel a kind of apprehensiveness and terror -- yes, terror, which I cannot describe. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference
But his hugeness could not quite overcome his apprehensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 25] Reference
A satisfied interior soon dispelled all our previous apprehensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
This apprehensiveness became a mania which controlled them even in their sleep. From Wordnik.com. [In a Far Country] Reference
Your servant, brother, thought I; I am not sorry for your charming apprehensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
VIGILANCE, so much apprehensiveness, that her fears are ever aforehand with her dangers. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Tendency to illusions, fears and apprehensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
In her apprehensiveness she hurried on for her own protection. From Wordnik.com. [All-Wool Morrison] Reference
And now, not without a bit of apprehensiveness, he let it out. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
Had I but as much creative genius as I have apprehensiveness! '. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I] Reference
"What is it, Aaron?" asked his wife, with wistful apprehensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
What grace in that beautiful oval! what apprehensiveness in the eye!. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I] Reference
There was a quick apprehensiveness in her tone as she caught his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Floyd Grandon's Honor] Reference
Anger and apprehensiveness were working twin leverage on the Comas executive. From Wordnik.com. [Joan of Arc of the North Woods] Reference
The apprehensiveness became a mania which controlled them even in their sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of the Wolf] Reference
At the gate, with some apprehensiveness, Mr. Bodge gave Mr. Crowther precedence. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
But I soon discovered the cause of the sound, and laughed at my own apprehensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Portent & Other Stories] Reference
In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the apprehensiveness of women is quite gratuitous. From Wordnik.com. [The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference
Eugene commanded his features, however, and they resumed their customary apprehensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Ambersons] Reference
Tony: she was too full of the tragic apprehensiveness, overmastering her to speak of trifles. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
Carlisle looked at her mother, and there were both apprehensiveness and dependence in her look. From Wordnik.com. [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference
Edwin said aloud quickly, from an exaggerated apprehensiveness lest she should be rating him too high. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
"One has only to furnish you with money, my Beppo," said Vittoria, complimenting his quick apprehensiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
Isabel consented, turning to Morgan, whose habitual expression of apprehensiveness was somewhat accentuated. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Ambersons] Reference
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