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Example sentences for "nerves were"

  • After using medicines only six days I began to improve; my nerves were steadier; circulation better, hands and feet warm.

  • My nerves were in a constant tremor, and in fact no other words than that, "I was completely out of fix all over," will express my condition.

  • My nerves were steady; indeed, my improvement was so remarkable, that it seemed almost a delusion.

  • The voice went through my heart; but my horse's nerves were immediately as much disturbed as mine.

  • I could not tell whether it were Mr. Thorold; I cannot tell what I saw; only my nerves were unstrung in a moment, and for the rest of that night I tossed with impatient pain.

  • And my nerves were straining, even now, to throw around my beloved the shield of circumstances; to keep him where he would be safe; to put my hand between his life and a blow.

  • My nerves were overwrought, I dare says after reading the dreadful confession of Eustace's first wife.

  • For the moment my nerves were so completely upset that I started with a cry of alarm.

  • My nerves were in fault again, I suppose.

  • My nerves were unstrung, and I had that generally tremulous feeling which is, I believe, an inseparable companion of the more advanced stages of dipsomania.

  • Before I had recovered myself sufficiently to reply, my nerves were assailed by another shock.

  • My nerves were just a little drunk on relaxation.

  • I may have trembled; I know that my nerves were stretched to the very highest fighting pitch, they were in tune with my determination.

  • As I entered, and became instantaneously aware that it contained no foe, my nerves were fired by the sound of rushing feet behind me.

  • It was not a cheerful place, but Goddard's nerves were excited to a pitch far beyond the reach of supernatural fears.

  • Hourly she expected a ringing at the bell, announcing the visit of a party of detectives on his track; every sound startled her and her nerves were strung to such a pitch that she heard with supernatural acuteness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    branch office; complete recovery; contemporary account; daughter dear; directing them; due course; eighteen thousand; expedition under; grave tone; great trial; headquarters were; many points; natural affection; nerves were; not daring; rustling sound; she finished; should succeed; solid rock; spent much; sustain them; various subjects