"Apprehension" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with grave apprehension that on 7th May Pitt went to Buckingham House for attendance upon the King, the first for nearly three and a quarter years. He expected an outburst of rage when he mentioned the chief subject at issue, namely the inclusion of Fox and the Grenvilles in ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose
... apprehension she saw the other shake her head in vigorous denial. "No plague," she said decisively. "My maid—she know everything. No ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... However, while we were arranging ourselves in the limousine I gathered that the name of one of them was Laura, and that the other's name was Lina. In their faces, on which the street-lights cast intermittent flashes, I seemed to discern a struggle between apprehension ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... Abimelech and his people, seeing it, feared that a like fate might overtake them.[194] The king called Abraham and reproached him for having caused such great misfortune through his false statements concerning Sarah. Abraham excused his conduct by his apprehension that, the fear of God not being in the place, the inhabitants of the land slay him for his wife.[195] Abraham went on and told the history of his whole life, and he said: "When I dwelt in the house of my father, the nations of the ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg
... climate became necessary. Dawlish, Penzance, and Torquay were resorted to in successive winters, and Mr. Keble began to revolve the question whether it might not become his duty to resign the living, where, to his own humble apprehension, all his best efforts had failed to raise the people to his own standard of religion. However, this was averted, and he was still at his post when, on the night of St. Andrew's Day, the 30th of November 1864, as he was sitting up writing to Dean Stanley on a passage of which he disapproved ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge
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