He took the hand that, not without renewed trepidationand misgiving, was stretched out to him, and did not do with it what its owner expected.
Its trepidation was out of all proportion to the needs of the case.
When she answered, some renewal of trepidationin her voice was due to the man's earnestness, not to any apprehension of his claim.
The lighting of the lamp restored Mr. Mitchelbourne, if not to the full measure of his confidence, at all events to an appreciation that the chief warrant for his trepidation was removed.
Fevrier had now nothing to do but to wait; and he waited without trepidation or excitement.
Whether because of Miss Francis' prophesies or not, it would be futile to deny that a certain amount of trepidation accompanied the decision to use the bomb.
So strong was his trepidation that when the train commenced to slacken the Honourable Sangiorgio sank down on the seat; his heart beat under his throat as though it filled up his whole chest.
Sangiorgio said nothing, but with slight inward trepidation awaited and feared a sarcastic remark from Tullio Giustini.
Go and stand by any crown of bloom and the tall stalks do but rock a little as for drowsiness, but look off across the field, and on the stillest days there is always a trepidation in the purple patches.
By the doctor's attitude, a keen observer might have divined the secret trepidation that always precedes a bad action which has been conceived and decided upon in cold blood.
Wilkie himself was insensible to fatigue, and although he had not closed his eyes the previous night, he only felt that nervous trepidation which invariably attacks debutants, and makes the throat so marvellously dry.
Tommy Eye, hovering near in piteous trepidationlest his kindly offices should miscarry, overheard the invitation that father and daughter extended to the young man, who was gloomily eying the approach of the wagon.
Rodburd Ide sadly reasoned to this conviction, and daily gazed towards the south in search of the sheriff bringing writs of attachment with as much trepidation as he had gazed north in the black days when he expected Pulaski Britt.
In his suddentrepidation at thought of his own imperilled interests, were he himself enmeshed in the law, Wade had thought to leave Tommy's possible fate alone.
I began to walk in the wood and with a little trepidation I ventured as far as the summit of a hill which dominates all the plain.
His attack was so direct and insolent that Claire missed the trepidation that might have come with a more covert move.
Not having that expanse of one hundred and twenty acres to spread over, it might overflow, and in considerable trepidation he sought Jimmy Platt.
It was not without fear and trepidation that he had done this, but he had told himself that it was then or never, and the hue and cry had not really begun.
It had been arranged that Senor Luazo and his nephew should dine that evening at Venta Villa, and Galva looked forward with no little trepidation to re-encountering the amorous lieutenant.
It must have been with some trepidation that Columbus forwarded to the Court the tidings of his arrival.
The men came on board without trepidation and gave the Spaniards what fish they wanted.
The narrow streets and narrower sidewalks keep the minds of visitors in a constant state of trepidation for fear of seeing some one crushed under the fast-moving vehicles.
What a restless family of children, with the ruddy glow of health, keeping the parents and nurses in a constant state of trepidation for fear they will fall into the water!
Poor, innocent child, that in her unconscious trepidation wished to intrench herself behind her grandeur, as behind a shield, which might conceal her maidenly fear and girlish anxiety!
As she saw him, an involuntary trepidation came over her, and for the first time she now became conscious of her hazardous step.
On returning home she in great trepidation told her father.
Can it be possible that you had felt a momentarytrepidation before meeting the gifted woman for whose genius you have ever entertained the greatest reverence?
The motives of our trepidation were, indeed, different, and were infinitely more powerful in my case than in his.
Twelve was the hour cried, and this ascended at once from all quarters, and was mingled with the baying of dogs, so as to produce trepidation and alarm.
You could see that he felt himself to be the beheld of all beholders, and that he enjoyed the position,--with some slight inward trepidation lest the effort to be made should not equal the greatness of the occasion.
He did not gather his eyebrows together, for he had none worth mentioning; but he frowned to that degree that he almost closed his small eyes, while the hurried raising of his grisly hand to his chin betrayed some trepidation or surprise.
The Norman turned a terrified gaze in the direction from whence these strange noises came, evidently in great trepidation and fear.
Paul Lazaire, who was mounting guard over the cell in which Oswald was confined, and who, in great trepidation and fear, shrank before the ghostly advent of an unknown and muffled visitant at the dread hour of night.
Britain continued for years suspended like a white hart--a simile justified by its constant trepidation and alarm--with which the Romans and others might enjoy an occasional game at bob-cherry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trepidation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
