Apprehended

Examples

• Ursula had apprehended him with a fine FRISSON of attraction. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And what danger is to be apprehended, Caroline, when daylight _is_ gone? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Now, with regard to the party to be apprehended. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Now, these are to be apprehended by reason and intelligence, but not by sight. Plato. The Republic.
• In the hands of a skillful physician practically no danger is to be apprehended from the use of either of the two agents. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I apprehended it to be a rock, and found myself tossed more than ever. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The Princes of the Protestant countries when they seized upon the national churches early apprehended the necessity of gripping the universities also. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was apprehended-- committed--tried--condemned--to die. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• To prevent the apprehended effect of such an inclination, my father was impatient to have me bound to my brother. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The travellers, however, used such speed as to reach the convent of St Withold's before the apprehended evil took place. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• How much he apprehended the geographical weakness of the empire, how far he saw the complete disaster that was now so near, we can only guess. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have inquired at every point where it might be, and I am sure that there is no danger to be apprehended. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Is the danger you apprehended last night gone by now, sir? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Besides, of course, there is no real danger to be apprehended now. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The economic revolution of the Roman republic had never been clearly apprehended by the common people of Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• AS matter of fact, any subject is cultural in the degree in which it is apprehended in its widest possible range of meanings. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I fear that I must be a ridiculous teacher when I have so much difficulty in making myself apprehended. Plato. The Republic.
• They apprehended my breaking loose; that my diet would be very expensive, and might cause a famine. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It may, perhaps, be apprehended, that if justice were allowed to be a human invention, it must be placed on the same footing. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The walls of this room were hung with transparent tapestries behind which I secreted myself without being apprehended. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But I warn you, by all I hold most solemn and most sacred, that instant will have you apprehended on a charge of fraud and robbery. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Hustling him roughly between them, they came immediately from the chamber, so quickly in fact that I was near to being apprehended. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He apprehended these things romantically, therefore, in a manner suitable for passionate treatment in large halls. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I apprehended that he might be a robber, who proposed cutting my throat on my very first attempt to give alarm or call for assistance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The result was an unquenchable scorn of the quarter whence such danger was to be apprehended. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Donavan says there is nothing materially to be apprehended; her constitution is a good one, and her resolution equal to any thing. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I might even,' he reflected, 'be apprehended as having been concerned in my own murder! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Considering the white people as their friends, they apprehended no danger from them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• For, suppose he were apprehended, we have no proof against him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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