Occasionally one of them would stop and glance furtively in the direction of the street, as if apprehensive that an unwelcome visitor might suddenly put in an appearance.
Mrs. Stuart, apprehensive of damage to her white chiffon gown.
Wearily she sank down on a rock, angry with herself, apprehensive of the consequences of her speech.
Sin is that without a sense of which a man is not apprehensive what grace is.
And how are they to consider of themselves, even then when they first are apprehensive of their need of this righteousness?
To speak the truth, I was apprehensive upon the score of her disguise.
There had been some coolness between him and the young hunter; and the lovers were apprehensive that he might not approve of their conduct.
Apprehensive of falling in with some straggling pursuers of the preceding night, we moved forward with caution.
I was apprehensive of losing them altogether; and regretted not having used more caution in approaching them.
I saw that he was unarmed; but was apprehensive that by flinging himself upon me, he might hold or delay me.
The housekeeper immediately left the room, keeping her eyes, as she passed, fixed upon me with the same nervous apprehensive look which had before irritated Dr.
If Harry were apprehensive of anything at all it was only of being caught in too hot a crush.
It wasn't that she was apprehensive of it, but she could not forget it.
Yes, the public spirit of an eastern tributary, who offers, with apprehensive devotion, a part of the wealth which he fears the hand of despotism may ravish entirely.
We are now tolerably quiet, and should seriously think of going to Paris, were we not apprehensive that some attempt from the Jacobins to rescue their chiefs, may create new disturbances.
Wycherley seems to have been apprehensive that this connection might not suit well with the King's plans respecting the Duke of Richmond.
So dropped they were, and the puppy sat back in the corner, a trifle apprehensive of what might happen next.
The most apprehensive did not anticipate militant action on the part of Mr. McCarthy.
We are sometimes alarmed by reports that parties of the enemy are approaching the town, when the gates are shut, and the great bell is toll'd; but I do not perceive that the people are violently apprehensive about the matter.
The army offers refuge and impunity to guilt of all kinds, and the magistrates themselves would be apprehensive of pursuing an offender who was protected by the mob, or, which is the same thing, by the Jacobins.
The King's enemies had so far succeeded in depreciating his personal courage, that even his friends were apprehensive he might not sustain his last moments with dignity.
My situation is still the same--I have no hope of returning to Amiens, and have just reason to be apprehensive for my tranquillity here.
Russ lost a little of his apprehensiveair as the meal progressed.
He was always apprehensive of something going to happen and when it did--well, they used to say that Pepper was the original "I told you so!
Besides, I was apprehensive that Jacobs and some of his friends might suspect me of having been false to the trust that had been reposed in me, at least so far as the office of Justice of the Peace was concerned.
The business men were apprehensive that the election of Mr. Bryan would bring about financial and commercial disaster, hence they, almost regardless of previous party affiliations, practically united in an effort to defeat him.
As it slowly moved westward along the hills, increasing in height and brilliancy until it became a long tongue of flame, playing against the streaks of cloud we were apprehensive that the near disc would rise to view.
My blood became so chilled, that I was apprehensivethe extremities would freeze, and the most vigorous motion of the muscles barely sufficed to keep at bay the numbness which attacked them.
Unfortunately we could not have visited it without taking an entire week, and we were apprehensive lest the fine weather, which we had now enjoyed for twenty-four days, should come to an end before we were done with the Bergenstift.
Frightened as they were, and apprehensive of saying any thing that might prejudice them, they could not speak; but at length it was necessary they should.
Joachim, apprehensive of the English making a diversion against Naples, consented to alter his course.
Neither of these fired at the boat, although the gunners ran down to their guns, as if apprehensive of an attack.
All this had very little effect in rendering the foreign community less apprehensive of a resumption of hostilities.
Napoleon, then in the midst of those victories which paved his way to the throne of France, was apprehensivethat the alliance of his brother with one of the old royalist families, might endanger his own ambitious projects.
Apprehensive that her husband might be mixed up in some misadventure, she tried hard to detain him; but, strong in his benevolent impulse, the honest fellow persisted in offering himself as the old lady's escort.
Again that quick apprehensive glance directed towards the closet door at mention of her name, a glance unseen by any one present save by His Eminence's watchful eyes.
Then that quick, apprehensive look towards the door had confirmed his every surmise.
In spite of Ruth's assurance, Toinette cast apprehensive glances about her, as though she expected a frowning face to appear around some corner and rebuke them.
I should be apprehensive that the country would too easily lend itself to such a rule.
The king, apprehensive of losing his throne, came back and, in his own fashion, rewarded his friends and punished his opponents.
Of a delicate constitution, apprehensive of physical suffering, and extremely misanthropical, he resigned his professorship in 1842, and came to Valsolda to enjoy the modest fortune his father had left him.
Armand, instinctively, as he threw a quick, apprehensive glance around him.
Lord Antony, as he shot a quick and apprehensive glance across at Sir Andrew.
So it was that her reply finally came in a quick apprehensive question.
After this speculative peroration, the reader may be apprehensive of some dire development springing from the letter-bag slung over the shoulders of the darkey.
Certain conditions had become established between the magistrate and the Maroon, which rendered the latter less apprehensive about the future.
He conjectured that a pursuit would be already set on foot; and, apprehensive of encountering the pursuers, he preferred making his approach to the house by working his way through the woods, where no path existed.
