Nerves

Examples

• Your nerves are all on edge. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• And as she swung her head, her fine mane of hair just swept his face, and all his nerves were on fire, as with a subtle friction of electricity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Oh, those dreadful nerves! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I either _could_ not, or _would_ not speak--I am not sure which: partlyI think, my nerves had got wrong, and partly my humour was crossed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• My nerves were not strong enough to bear it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Well, that's not so bad, considering your nerves had to be spared. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Was the one with the bad nerves and the strange name from there? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was a vivisector, made sections of the brain in order to determine the funct ions of its parts, and severed the gustatory, optic, and auditory nerves with a similar end in view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A heavy thrill ran down her nerves, heavy, almost pleasure, almost pain. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Nobody could have browbeaten her, none irritated her nerves, exhausted her patience, or over-reached her astuteness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• To Archer's strained nerves the vision was as soothing as the sight of the blue sky and the lazy river. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• If a red rose is seen, it is because the optic nerves sensitive to red have been stimulated and have carried the message to the brain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Among others the inexhaustible subject of nerves. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A snowy field stimulates equally all three sets of optic nerves--the red, the green, and the blue. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• You have no compassion for my poor nerves. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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