Crawford lit another cigarette and smokednervously while he awaited the go-ahead signal.
O Marcy," exclaimed Mrs. Gray, rising from her chair and nervously pacing the room.
I felt myself grasping my own sword somewhat nervously in my left hand, as I abandoned the great one, and let it fall back with a clang into its corner.
You think him worse," said Wentworth nervously to the doctor in the hall.
There were more than two full hours yet to elapse before she could come, and in that interval, which seemed a long one, I must confess I was nervously anxious about my altered looks.
Draconmeyer was fingering nervously his tie of somewhat vivid purple.
Mr. Grex moved a little nervously in the chair which he had just drawn up to the table.
All the time he kept on glancing nervously around.
He nervously played with the horse's mane and said tremulously, "We can never do without you now, Miss Eden.
She still nervously dreaded a visit from the man she was conscious she was about to wound cruelly, and in the afternoon, hearing wheels, was relieved to see only her brother driving up.
Though she did not look up she felt his gaze upon her and became uneasy, and pressed her clasped hands nervously together.
The new disciple was still talkingnervously about the dog--it was leaving footmarks all over the place, but then, you know, in such weather.
Egholm looked across nervously and enviously, and when Hedvig came round behind his chair, he reached out backwards greedily, but was sadly disappointed.
Fru Egholm shifts in her seat, pulling nervously at her work.
He took up a letter that had followed him by the same post, and nervously broke the seal.
She jumped nervously at the noise, and listened with closed eyes as her young stepsister-in-law poured forth her request.
As we waited at the edge of a wood, while the major held us for orders, a half-grown robin, with speckled breast, nervously flew about us as if he wished to take refuge from the noises that distracted him.
Those who have just shot rise andnervously stand aside, to watch the scoring of their ten shots.
They both looked at the sky and at the darkly rolling sea on which there now rested a low incoming mist; but Davie left the burden of reply to old Blodgett, who spoke nervously in his thin, windy voice.
And a moment later he was swinging negligently out across the pavement at a line which would converge with the path of the nervously pacing stranger.
She sank into a chair, pulling nervously at her pair of worn gloves.
The vicar assented; indeed, he had grown, under this urgent pressure, as nervously anxious to sell as he had been to retain it.
I'll take a ticket, if you please," he gasped, nervously holding out his money.
Clinging nervously to the sides of the canoe, and peering out into the dim twilight, we saw nothing but whirling eddies, sunken rocks starting up to meet us, and waves white with foam.
Maud Morris recognized the facing of a crisis in his attitude, and she nervously clasped her slim fingers as she read something of what was passing in his mind.
Rex sprang upright on the rock in his astonishment; then laughed shortly, as he resumed his seat, stuffing nervously at his pipe.
Lissac laughed a little nervously and trembled slightly, trying to joke but feeling himself suddenly weakening in the presence of this woman whose wrath or contemptuous smile he preferred.
She nervously snapped her fingers and with her feet crossed, beat the little feverish march that she had previously done.
She laughed heartily and loud, and Madame Marsy, who was half dethroned, fanned herself nervously in her box, or levelled her glass at some one in the audience, affecting a little disdainful manner toward her fair neighbor.
He tried now to force a smile and went down to his cabinet, where he found heaped-up reports awaiting his attention and he turned the pages over nervously and read them in a very bad humor.
Adrienne nervously uttered a loud, harsh laugh, as painful as if it were caused by a spasm.
That was a dreadful affair at the Rosemere," he bungled on, twisting his hat nervouslyround and round.
But even then Mrs. Derwent did not immediately speak, but sat nervously clasping and unclasping her long, narrow hands.
The Isle of Sirens" was the first production of his able, appetising, and nervously vibrating brush.
He stood in the window silently waiting, while a young clerk trembling with excitement performed the small services necessary, and asked nervously if he could do more.
Presently observing St. Michael hardly touched his dinner and seemed too weary to talk, she suggested nervously that she should sit with Aymer that evening.
Jessie plucked her nervously by the sleeve seeing Christopher was outpacing them, and terrified of being left in that labyrinth of corridor without a guide.
Englishman, tugging nervouslyat the tip of his little blond mustache.
I wonder if this is one of those beastly castles with secret doors in the wainscot and peep-holes in the pictures," he said nervously to himself.
Because," said Toppleton nervously yet firmly, "because your face is not consistent with your record.
And then every time there was a step or noise of any kind out in the corridor, he would straighten up nervously and stare at the door in a tense sort of fashion which showed that he dreaded meeting me.
His Excellency, nervously toying with the quill, listened, and as he did so reflected upon what Ricci had already told him.
She was silent, twisting her handkerchief nervously in her gloved hand.
Into it Olga came stealing back, and paused nervouslyin the doorway to look on.
She asked the question nervously as if she feared the answer.
Here he paused, turned his head quickly, and frisked his fingers nervously through his straight, silvery hair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nervously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
