What is "apprehensively"

Usage examples of "apprehensively".

The saddle was removed and she was led to one of the empty stalls, where she remained the rest of the evening, her head low, her pasterns quivering, turning her head apprehensively from time to time, showing the white of one eye and at long intervals heaving a single prolonged sigh.

Antony apprehensively with those big, brown, mournful eyes, and pursed his full lips together.

Apprehensively, he watched the speedometer mete out his remaining freedom in diminishing seconds of arc, stemming the urge to brake to a stop and bolt headlong up the tunnel on foot.

The rest of the time they were fastened on Rupert, now and then jumping apprehensively to the snoozing bronze-haired infant carried by the third unliveried adult who trailed behind both King and Queen.

He looked round the barroom with rather an anxious air, and, retreating with his valuables to the warmest corner, disposed them under his chair, sat down, and looked rather apprehensively up at the worthy whose heels illustrated the end of the mantel-piece, who was spitting from right to left, with a courage and energy rather alarming to gentlemen of weak nerves and particular habits.

Colby hotfoot for his horse, and Anna apprehensively back to her mistress.

She watched apprehensively as Orkney poured two fingersworth and barely doubled it with tonic.

Time and again he would catch himself listening for he knew not what, approaching warily the corner of the next huge monolith as if thinking to surprise behind it some ghoulish rite, glancing apprehensively down the corridors he passed, or overshoulder for some nameless thing that stalked him and was never there when he looked, but ever lurked impishly just beyond the tail of his eye.

The musician glanced apprehensively at the old man and, sure enough, Barrows was staring at him coldly and nodding.

He spun apprehensively, and then grinned with a shaken relief when he found his two bodyguards behind him, safely back from the rim of the inexplicable pit, staring up at a vague blue flickering in the cloudy dark above.

He peered at it blankly, as Giles Habibula dragged him apprehensively back from the brink.

Star sprang apprehensively to his side, to help throw back the lid of the scarlet box.

Habibula had stopped, panting apprehensively, in the circle of tense onlookers.

Jay Kalam and Hal Samdu and Caspar Hannas stood peering down at it, but Giles Habibula hung apprehensively back near the elevator that had brought them up.

Habibula watched apprehensively as he touched the dial, whispered a code response, and lifted the little disk to his ear.