be apprehensive of
Example Sentences
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In recusal questions, he said longstanding judicial ethics guidelines state a judge "should not be swayed by partisan demands, public clamor or considerations of personal popularity or notoriety, nor be apprehensive of unjust criticism."
From Reuters • Dec. 31, 2011
"No one need be apprehensive of suffering by faults of this kind."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
I would be apprehensive of submitting the absolute determination of the question to an official tribunal for the reasons, among others, which I have mentioned above.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.
Although beginning to be apprehensive of some coming evil, she smiled; and even rallied him upon one of the new doctrines to which Elvira had alluded.
From The Mormon Prophet by Dougall, Lily
You were wont to say, you loved me the better for my expostulations with you on that acknowledged warmth and quickness of your temper which your own good sense taught you to be apprehensive of.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Richardson, Samuel
