| 1. | "Yes and every delay makes one more apprehensive of other delays. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 2. | And turns around his apprehensive eyes. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 3. | Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive sense. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | With apprehensive caution therefore it was revealed, and he was listened to with unexpected calmness. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 5. | "Are you apprehensive of the new sphere you are about to enter--of the new life into which you are passing. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 6. | The disquietude of his air, the somewhat apprehensive impatience of his manner, surprised me but I proceeded. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | She was soon convinced that it was not for herself she was feeling at all apprehensive or embarrassed it was for him. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 8. | "Yes," answered Diana, stifling a giggle with an apprehensive glance over her shoulder at the closed sitting-room door. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 9. | There was a something in her countenance which made him listen with an apprehensive and anxious attention, while she adde. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |