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
You need not now be apprehensive of my bounty-money: I have ceased to be a soldier; when I was one, you might have thought more charitably of me.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
He was entrusted by Nero with the government of Spain, before Nero had yet learned to be apprehensive of men of great repute.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
And if you should be apprehensive of the trouble of doing so, there is the further haven of consolation that any number of people will take the trouble off your hands.'
From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles
Well, my dear," said he, taking her hand, "now you have once ventured to come, don't be apprehensive of repeating your visits.
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny
