Scroop was quite well again, and Ellen was nervous enough at the thought of having to appear as a witness.
Ralph answered the summons to find Glidden standing outside, his face pale and anxious, and so nervous over something that he could not stand still in the same position for a single minute.
His wife, a thin, nervous lady, told how a few days before an old man named Palmer had come there, saying that his son was well known to her husband, which the lady believed to be true.
At a small saloon whose lights spilled themselves across his path, he got himself a glass of beer; he was feeling just such a thirst as a man knows after nervous and exacting labor.
The code was a cumbersome one; its single good quality was that it passed unsuspected at a time when nervous telegraph departments were refusing all ciphers.
Smith's voice quivered, responsive to the nervous vitality pent up within that lean frame.
Sir Lionel Barton listened, sitting quite still the while--an unusual repose in a man of such evidently tremendous nervous activity.
Edwards, Edwards--" And he was off across the lawn with the nervousactivity of a cat.
I noted, with concern, a repetition of the nervous shudder.
He tapped out his pipe on the side of the grate and began with nervous energy to refill it again from the dilapidated pouch.
Before then, the nervous system had been explored successfully by Carpenter.
The most fond and nervousof mothers suffered her fears to be allayed.
Like other unfortunate deaf people, I suffer from nervous irritability.
He reminds me of the old song called 'The Nervous Man.
Psychoanalysis just won't work unless the subject is calm, composed, and not in a nervous state.
Horker heard Pat's nervous breathing; other than that, the room was in silence.
She could not bear to have around her nervous and sick persons; those from whom she could gain nothing made her weaker.
The teacher saw that some terrible nervous affection had fallen upon her, that she grew more and more feverish.
He here gives a biography, mental and physical, of one of the most remarkable cases of high nervous excitement that the age, so interested in such, yet affords, with all its phenomena of clairvoyance and susceptibility of magnetic influences.
Of this feeling of double identity, an invalid, now wasting under nervous disease, often speaks to me.
No one is, however, free fromnervous sensations at times.
I have sometimes lain awake a whole night, trying to serve out the last ball of an interesting game in a particular corner of the court, which I had missed from a nervous feeling.
The thought comforted him, for he vaguely realized that he had come close to experiencing a nervous panic during those minutes in the woods.
His house-shoes enabled him to move on noiseless feet and he had never stooped to that common subterfuge of butlers, the nervous cough.
Mr. Martin jumped in his chair and shot a nervous glance at the men in the outer room.
You must make allowances for my sister's nervous condition," answered Miss Ocky quickly.
Lucy Varr, helping herself but scantily from the dishes passed, preserved her customary pose of nervous diffidence.
With only old Bates in the house she is inclined to be nervous while--while that man is still at large.
Despite that skeptic snort, Varr was conscious of a nervous chill.
Parallel with this lessening of physical zeal ran an exaggerated nervous irritability very hard to bear.
As Lucy looked at her aunt, she observed the shifting glance, the crafty smile, the nervous interlacing of the fingers.
She had never known herself to be so nervous before.
This was agreed to, and in nervous haste the three cadets procured the ropes and advanced on the two men who were, fortunately, sleeping heavily.
Ever since the scare over the use of the French headache powder Ritter had been more or lessnervous and afraid of exposure.
Perhaps he was a bit nervous over this gymnastic contest and thought to quiet his nerves," suggested George Strong.
In a very few minutes--for all worked with nervous haste--they had packed away nearly every trophy the room contained.
There is no doubt that his constant nervous apprehension and unceasing anxiety materially contributed to undermine his constitution and occasion his death.
Between this Spanish question and the increasing destitution in Ireland, the Government are very uneasy, and Lord John particularly is very nervous and alarmed.
If the overabundance of material has been a drawback, on the other hand it has given a style, a nervousenergy and strength, and a dash that are refreshing.
He tried to fortify himself by recalling the excellence of his intention, but that only increased his nervous agitation.
Saying this, Le Ber shrugged his shoulders with resigned emphasis, though there were strange nervous twitches about his firm lips.
Her father raised his voice, and a nervousreply came from above.
It then tends to pull on the ovaries and produce pain and various nervous symptoms.
There is another phase to this lack of nerve control shown in a nervous tension, an inability to relax and enjoy life.
This change and development requires considerable of the girl's strength and naturally influences her nervous system.
A woman who is nervous usually does not realize what is the cause of her condition.
If the nervous strain too common at this age could be relieved we would have fewer nervous women and a healthier and happier posterity.
Then the extra drain on hernervous system shows itself in various forms.
Eventually this tension will manifest itself in some disorder, as headache, nervous indigestion or complete nervous prostration.
Excess in anything tends to bring on premature old age, for the nervous force is expended faster than it is manufactured.
As thenervous system is greatly affected at this period there should be no great mental strain.
Too much introspection and concern for self is often the cause of nervous conditions that produce worry and ill-health.
My condition, I am always nervous when in company, expecting somebody to accuse me any minute.
When excitable and irritable and suffering from a nervous headache, she takes various remedies to deaden the symptoms, instead of looking the matter squarely in the face and going after the cause.
In fact, if the girl shows many nervous symptoms, it may be wise to take her out of school for a year so that her strength may be used as Nature requires it.
The nervous organisation of this dog and his imagination had to do with his brain, which his eyes showed to be capable of development.
Probably he had been nervous from the first, and there was therefore all the less chance of his recovery.
The dog's a poor, nervous little thing with we, and don't mean to do no hurt.
He was of course nervous and shy, and no doubt would always be so.
I have owned dogs for a great many years and of many breeds and temperaments; but never, in the whole of my experience, have I come across any dog as nervous as this one: it is pitiful to see him.
To thrash him would be almost an act of cruelty by a dog of such a temperament: it might make him more nervous than ever, even if he could be caught for the purpose and made to understand the rudiments of cause and effect.
With the high intelligence and nervous development of this dog, it might have been thought that pain would terrify.
Breeding and pluck--nervous energy--had carried through, when others had gone down.
Here was one none too strong, whose nervous organisation had been shattered, and whose confidence had been wholly undermined.
When Mr. Doggett paused for breath, Miss Lucy, who was listening in a nervous tremor, jerked out her errand.
After another sleepless night, Miss Lucy rejoiced to see Wednesday morning dawn clear, and as soon as hernervous hands could harness the big bay, she started to town.
Why—er—yes, I heard that Effie Bittersweet is on the verge of nervous prostration.
Well, Marie has developed neuralgia, grip, and nervous prostration in swift succession, and he has been called in to attend her.
Her ideas were all in direct opposition to Morton’s, and the poor girl almost fretted herself into nervous prostration trying to please them both.
In his secret heart, he shrank from it with a dread far more nervous than Anice's.
I will," and she closed her hand with a sudden nervous strength.
The mild, nervous little Oxonian barely reached Derrick's shoulder; his finely cut face was singularly feminine and innocent; the mild eyes beaming from behind his small spectacles had an absent, dreamy look.
Liz pulled her shawl closer about her shoulders, as if in nervous protest.
Whether estimated by volume or by weight, the quantity of nervous tissue which is consumed in the electric organ of the skate is in excess of all the rest of the nervous system put together.
The outermost layer afterwards gives rise to the epidermis with its various appendages, and also to the centralnervous system with its organs of special sense.
And why, in the birds of paradise themselves, does it require four years ere these nervous and arterial influences take effect upon the plumage?
His clothes were worn and shabby, but one forgot them as he stood there and talked--indeed they even lent a sort of dignity to his lean, nervous little figure.
No doubt they exaggerated their danger, but just the same I would advise any one who is nervous on the water to be sure that the lower lake is fairly smooth before attempting to cross it.
One of the boatmen was a wild-eyed old fellow, very nervous and fidgety, who had considerable difficulty in wielding an oar against the husky fellow opposite him, and more than once the steersman had admonished him to put more ginger into it.
He flung a nervous glance over his shoulder; Ardea and her cousin were returning down the foot-path.
Cousin Euphrasia getsnervous about me, sometimes, as you made believe you were.
At the same moment, the sound of Thessalie's smothered and convulsive sobbing came to him; and Dulcie's nervous hand slipped from his.
If the girl is worked too hard she may become nervous or anaemic, and if she is allowed to rest too much she may grow up lazy and self-indulgent.
At the same time mothers must not sacrifice the young ones to nervous or morbid fears, as some are inclined to do.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nervous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
