Example Sentences

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They settled upon the faces and arms of the paddlers, totally unapprehensive of rebuff.

From The Palace of Darkened Windows by Frederick, Edmund

Why, it has happened from your being the most unapprehensive mortal that ever lived, or from your having your wits whirled out of you by that everlasting New York tornado.

From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth

His heart was employed in inventing guile, and was lulled into unapprehensive security.

From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William

A singularly childlike and unapprehensive smile played across his features.

From Cape Cod Folks by Greene, Sarah P. McLean

Harland, therefore, had permission to visit as an accepted lover; the Governor, unapprehensive of any further danger respecting his nephew, readily consenting to free him from his interdiction.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. I by Reeve, Sophia