He walked home and flung himself to bed, his mind tired, his nerves unstrung, and all the blood of his body apparently concentrated in his brain.
His mind is always clouded, the activity of his nerves partly increased, partly weakened; his hands begin to tremble, and become unsteady; soon his very feet refuse to serve.
By also affecting the nerves of the heart, it accelerates the circulation of the blood; this produces throughout the body a more rapid vital activity.
The least decrease was found to be in the nerves, a striking proof that nerves possess a great power of self-preservation, provided there be but a minimum of matter to feed them.
The former has taken alcohol; it goes into the blood, arrives in the brain, and excites the nerves to increased action.
The nerves of the heart are also affected by it, and cause violent beating of the heart and pulse.
How long the nerves of Heyward would have sustained him in this extraordinary situation, it might be difficult to decide, for, happily, he soon found relief.
Throughout the whole of this sudden and extraordinary operation, Magua, though he had struggled violently, until assured he was in the hands of one whose nerves were far better strung than his own, had not uttered the slightest exclamation.
Other companies found their way behind the British lines to drill their nerves to withstand scenes of ruin and desolation, the whine of high-explosive shells, and the rattle of shrapnel.
It was the desire of beauty that made her a poet; her "nerves of delight" were always quivering at the contact of beauty.
The injured nerves [of the face] carry inflammation up to the brain and it is not to be borne.
Enderby said, as he sat with the glass provokingly held in his hand, while his visitor's nerves began to jump with excitement.
He finished his breakfast and had something to drink afterwards, for he felt as if his nerves wanted settling.
His nerveswere on edge as he wriggled far enough through to peer about in the dark outside.
The time could not have been so very long, for the terrible speed was rapidly devouring the distance, but with our nerves strained to the highest tension, each minute seemed an hour.
The accident was a great shock to us all, and my nerves are not what they used to be.
His nerves were finely strung, and he shrank like a woman from physical pain and discomfort, and from anything that was of a rough and discordant nature.
No doubt, their nerves suffered a little; but the young ladies loved him all the better for being witty and wicked; and thought if they could only marry him, how they would reform him.
Our nerves were keyed up to the highest tension, and the day’s events had gone deep into mind and heart.
System” and more merciless master, until it was a marvel that nerves and health were not wrecked.
But one other actor has ever wrought so mightily upon nerves and imagination.
Her nerves were not as stout as mine, perhaps, but she was no coward, and she was not given to foolish imaginations.
I recollect walking out into the bustling streets as if I trod upon air, my head ringing as if nerves were taut harpstrings, my heart throbbing tumultuously.
The first day I showed how alcoholic beverages were biting like a serpent and stinging like an adder, by destroying the lungs, the brains, and the liver; the nerves and the muscles; the blood and the very life of man.
Every one of his questions was thrilling my nervesand filling me with the most shameful sensations!
It is this diabolical pride which nerves them with an iron will, to bring down everything to their feet; subject every human being to their will, and tie every neck to the wheels of their chariot.
I repeat, however, that your mother must have given you a brain harder than diamond and nerves more solid than brass, not to have been afraid during this very singular adventure in the night.
The ground of the mischief is not known to the officers, and as far as I can see, they have no heart or nerves to meet this formidable calamity.
No wrongs our breasts alarm, No fears our hearts appal, Unswerving justice nerves our arm, We cannot conquered fall.
Irish hearts, As true as the blessings the Shamrock brings, Hearts as full of royal blood As that which nerves the arms of kings.
A small digression here, to avoid any possible confusion due to the fact that I have purposely associated together temperature nerves and sight nerves.
And I don't know what will happen to my nerves if you deceive me, Yasha.
Shivers] Oh, mynerves have already started dancing me about.
The clear atmosphere braced one's nerveslike wine, and revealed distant objects with a pre-Raphaelite distinctness.
But her continual rains in winter, and cold winds and fogs in summer, must be very trying to average nerves and lungs.
The rough word was half reaction of relief, that the child could speak at all, half horrible spasm of all her own motherly nerves that thrilled through and through with every pang that touched the little frame, hers also.
His eyes were glittering, and the nerves on one side of his face twitched oddly.
Master Carey's nerves are in much the same state to-night as Dymphna's.
My nerves had not recovered from the blow which the sight of the Spaniard lying dead at my feet had dealt them so short a time before, and I shrank with a natural repulsion from the task before me.
Owing, however, to the anxiety to which my mind had been subjected for years, my nerves had become terribly shaken; and no sooner was the trial terminated than sleep forsook my pillow.
The night before the duel he tried hard to sleep; he knew it was not giving his nerves fair play to lie thinking all night.
It educates the tissue to grow, stimulates it--new blood-vessels and nervesas well as flesh.
Kennedy, much as a doctor might test the nerves of a patient.
Taken in any of these forms, it literally makes the nerves walk, dance, and run.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nerves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: agitation; fear; fidgets; nerve; nerves; panic; tension; trepidation; twitching; uneasiness
