But he was tough of nerve and stout of heart far beyond the fashion of his kind, and almost at once he pulled himself together and stood trembling, straining on the halter, his long ears laid back upon his head.
Why, the other day my 'phone was out of order and I ran down to the desk in my kimona to telephone and the clerk had the nerve to call me for it.
I had no more than exchanged the courtesies of the day with the stage doorkeeper and asked after his sick child than that mut-faced sneeze that calls himself a stage manager had the nerve to rush up an fine me five dollars.
And the nerve of them to pan me after meeting several of them socially.
He had the nerve to come up to us girls and want us to beat it up and down Broadway with signs boosting the show on our backs.
Would you believe it, that guy had the nerve to come around the next day and declare that she had pinched the bauble and threaten to land her in the booby hatch if she didn't come across.
Vaudreuil was always full of grand, swelling words, and boasts of his great deeds and devotion; but men were beginning to note that when face to face with real peril he lost his nerve and self confidence, and had to depend upon others.
Fritz sped through the forest, hot and breathless, yet straining every nerve to reach his goal.
The absolute precision with which it was delivered showed the perfect steadiness and nerve of the men.
I should make a good enough Canadian militiaman, but I should never have the nerve to be a regular soldier.
These words made young Mortimer wince, and his nerve palpably weakened.
And to add to the horror of his situation, in descending his right foot came down squarely upon one of the rats, which emitted a strange cry, a sort of squeal, that sent a thrill throughout every nerve of our hero's body.
And the Quakers lined up before their bench and gazed at this newcomer who had the nerve to walk out there to the box.
If the nerve of it amazed me, what did it not do to Lane?
Frank was very pale, his face was set, and he was evidently trying to nerve himself to bear disappointment.
The mother strained every nerve to have her boy, whom she intended for the ministry, well educated, and the lad profited by her self-denial.
It was fortunate that nerve to return the salutation smilingly was not wanting, or Mr Stevenson would certainly have pitilessly chaffed the timid victims of conventionality afterwards.
He thinks that the missing toes may "possibly" be exceptions to this conclusion, "but the other facts only imply the transmission of a morbid state of the sympathetic or sciatic nerve or of a part of the medulla oblongata.
The optic nerve may atrophy in a few months from disuse consequent on the loss of the eye.
Footnote 1: The covering of the fibres by a sheath of phosphoretted fat serving to insulate the conductile portion of the nerve is an indication that the fibre has commenced to function as a conductor of nervous impulses.
The phrenic nerve arises from the spinal cord in the upper cervical region and descends through the neck and chest to the diaphragm; it is therefore a special nerve of respiration.
Although each hemisphere is especially related to the opposite half of the body, the two are unified in function by a great bridge of nerve fibres, called the corpus callosum, which unites them.
The vocal cords (ligaments) themselves contain very few nerve fibres; those that are seen in the deeper structures of the cords and adjacent parts mainly proceed to the mucous glands.
It is, however, probable that there is a direct relation between the brain and the spinal nerve centres which control the costal and abdominal muscles independently of the respiratory centres of the medulla oblongata (vide fig.
The adventures of his college life had never found the Prussian boy wanting in nerve or courage; he had always seized his chance and made the most of it.
He had inherited the iron nerve of the strongest of his ancestors.
That night a letter went to Doctor Heath, a famous nerve specialist of New York City.
The pressure on a certain nerve was removed, and for the last six months Benjamin Blossom had been slowly but surely coming back to his old-time health and strength.
With Edgar's love to nerve my soul, what is there that I cannot endure?
Lofty awe and adoration all my throbbing bosom filled, Every pulse and nerve in nature with ecstatic wonder thrilled.
The ice was rough enough and flimsy enough to take the nerve out of any man.
When you does find it, it takes a deal o' nerve t' crawl in.
It seemed impossible; more impossible than ever, now when every nerve of his body tingled with feverish, almost painful desire.
She had deliberately chosen this course to disarm suspicion, and had failed to warn him in advance that she might test his nerve and discretion.
West startled, crept back into a corner, every nerve alert at approaching peril.
His heart throbbed at the sight, every nerve tingling to the intimate tones of her voice.
The nerve stimulus itself has a cause; it ordinarily arises directly or indirectly from the stimulation of a sense organ.
The drum-skin, the three little bones of the middle ear, and the cochlea of the inner ear are all merely mechanical means of making possible the stimulation of the specialized endings of the auditory nerve by vibrations of air.
The setting up of a nerve process in a sense organ or in a nerve tract.
The sense organs themselves are merely modifications of the nerve ends together with certain mechanisms for enabling stimuli to act on the nerve ends.
Ordinarily and normally, a muscle contracts only when stimulated by a nerve current.
The light thus focused on the retina sets up a chemical change in the delicate nerve tissue; this excitation is transmitted through the optic nerve to the occipital (back) part of the brain, and sets up brain action there.
We said just now, that a nerve begins in a sense organ and ends in a muscle.
Generally speaking, we may say that every nerve has one end in a sense organ and the other in a muscle.
The nervedoes not extend directly to a muscle, but ordinarily goes by way of the brain.
A nerve tendency is simply the likelihood that a stimulus will take a certain course rather than any other.
The brain is merely a great group of nerve cells and fibers which have developed as a central organ where a stimulation may pass from almost any sense organ to almost any muscle.
They say that the Austrians are straining every nerve to break through to the river and cross.
If I had lost my nerve no protecting of Marie, no defiance of Semyonov--and, far beyond these, abject submission to my enemy in the forest.
He choked and stood up; she could not move; every nerve in her had become tense with emotions so bewildering that mind and body remained fettered.
The shock with which I had learned what had been done to me had shaken to the centre what nerve the 'treatment' had left me.
Every nerve should be strained to save a man from that fate, if it be humanly possible, ay, even if he be mad indeed; for while there is life there is hope, till that step has been taken.
My nerve was shaken to its weakest, remember; and I was alone with him!
What that would be he had no notion; only he strained every nerve to be alert when the crisis came to snatch from Marufa the advantage that wily old man had gained.
Then summoning all his nerve he uttered a yell and began to shout the first song which he could recollect: “Hurrah!
This mass of nerve tissue is much smaller than the cerebrum.
The white nerve tissue forms central nuclei which send out branches that ramify in every direction.
The isthmus is the highway between the spinal cord and the higher nerve centres.
The contents of the womb begin to affect the organ in the same manner as a foreign body, irritating the nerve endings and producing contractions of the muscles.
The gray layer is connected with the posterior portion of the brain, the isthmus or medulla oblongata, by the white nerve tissue.
The ganglia are grayish enlargements formed by nerve cells and supporting tissue, situated at the origin of the nerve trunk or along its course.
The superior is the sensory root and the inferior is the motor root, both uniting to form a mixed nerve trunk.
The cortical layer is made up of nerve cells or areas which control the voluntary muscles of the body.
The brain is an oval mass of nerve tissue elongated from before to behind, and slightly depressed from above to below.
The lining membrane is the nasal mucous membrane, the lower two-thirds or respiratory portion differing from the upper one-third, in that the latter possesses the nerve endings of the olfactory nerve and is the seat of smell.
The nerves form white cords that are made up of nerve fibres.
In congestion of the brain, the blood-vessels distributed to the nerve tissue become engorged with blood.
Memory was in full operation for so long a time before anything like what we call a nervous system can be detected, that Professor Hering must not be supposed to be intending to confine memory to a motor nerve system.
They do not exist continuously as ideas; what is continuous is the special disposition ofnerve substance in virtue of which this substance gives out to-day the same sound which it gave yesterday if it is rightly struck.
He can watch them entering upon the ends of the nerves, and finding their way to the cells of the brain by means of the series of undulations or vibrations which they establish in the nerve filaments.
The nerve substance preserves faithfully the memory of habitual actions.
We have chains of material nerve processes to which eventually a link becomes attached that is attended with conscious perception.
Professor Hering adds that memory is due to vibrations of the molecules of the nerve fibres, which under certain circumstances recur, and bring about a corresponding recurrence of visible action.
