She turned and looked behind her at the window, in dreadful secretive apprehension.

A phenomenon of this kind would not have greatly alarmed me, or at any rate it would not have given rise to dreadful apprehensions.

UTURE drove the work that day with a fierceness of purpose born of dreadful apprehension.

Forgetting the guards, she spurred her horse suddenly, filled with a dreadful apprehension, and left the gate swiftly behind- There was no road north outside the wall.

In that blackness dreadful apprehensions seized me, for I became convinced that we had been brought here to be murdered.

With those words and a parting glance, Flora bustled out, leaving Clennam under dreadful apprehension of this terrible charge.

The Chorus were excessively nervous, perhaps as labouring under the dreadful apprehension that some good thing was going to be diverted from them!

- A little better, but under dreadful apprehensions of sickness.

The poor woman, who had all night been under the most dreadful apprehensions, was now frightened and confounded to the last degree.

I waited in dreadful apprehension and hurt for another blow to fall, but he held back.