What is "misgivings"

Usage examples of "misgivings".

Whatever misgivings the prince had once felt about the dwarf were now gone.

The one aspect of Aurelia which caused misgivings in all her relatives and friends was her liking for Sulla, who visited her because he admired her.

Pompey, still some months short of his twenty-seventh birthday, breezed off to see Sulla with no misgivings whatsoever.

My misgivings quite melted away, it was such a hearty and confident laugh.

The fact is that for some time past, Christopher had felt sharp twinges of conscience, and deep misgivings as to the course he had pursued in leaving his wife a single day in the dark.

While these misgivings battled with his base but ardent passion, strange things were going on out of doors--but they will be best related in another sequence of events, to which indeed they fairly belong.

Livingstone reached Europe, and many were the misgivings lest the rumours of his death were only too true.

She had misgivings about her husband but had been too frightened to come forth.

How could he explain his misgivings to his superiors, if it came to that?

Despite her misgivings, she made no resistance, could make none, as he led her from the antechamber, along a short connecting corridor to his bedroom, where a small table by the fireplace was set for two.

At times she had misgivings as to the honesty of the course she had adopted.

Our reserve of bullion is much larger at present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the directors have had misgivings upon the subject.

When I was alone once more, however, with the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility which it entailed upon me.

Velde said, but despite his misgivings he watched the way Aboli handled the team of greys.

He was not ignorant of the detestation in which he was held, and it was with some misgivings that he sought the required protection.