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It was misgivingly predicted at home by divers friends that I would be as a lamb set loose among wolves, and lose all my money at the outstart. 

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey

This truth is felt beforehand misgivingly and in troubled vision, by a young man who stands upon the threshold of manhood.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

His friends shook their heads misgivingly, but he only smiled at their fears.

From Added Upon A Story by Anderson, Nephi

And then their misgivingly sweet communion was ended by what was so inconceivably and suddenly alarming and dangerous that even Stafford was, for a moment, dazed.

From The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Waterloo, Stanley

The judge had gone to him misgivingly, fully determined to fight his exactions; but there was no need, and to his own surprise matters were arranged in a moment.

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil