At that time Cicero had vehement suspicions of Cæsar, but no apparent proof to convince him.—North, Plutarch’s Lives, p. 718.
The laws of God cannot without breach of Christian liberty, and the apparent injury of God’s servants, be hid from them in a strange language, so depriving them of their best defence against Satan’s temptations.—Fuller, Twelve Sermons concerning Christ’s Temptations, p. 59.
Love was not in their looks, either to God
Or to each other, but apparent guilt,
And shame and perturbation and despair.
Milton, Paradise Lost, x. 111.
At that time [at the resurrection of the last day], as the Scripture doth most apparently testify, the dead shall be restored to their own bodies, flesh and bones.—Articles of the Church (1552).
Apprehensive. As there is nothing which persons lay hold of more readily than that aspect of a subject in which it presents matter for fear, ‘to apprehend’ has acquired the sense of to regard with fear; yet not so as that this use has excluded its earlier; but it has done so in respect of ‘apprehensive,’ which has now no other meaning than that of fearful, a meaning once quite foreign to it.
See their odds in death:
Appius died like a Roman gentleman,