Nervousness

Examples

• Hence his pallor and nervousness--his sleepless night and agitation in the morning. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• For all bilious diseases or disorders arising from torpidity of the liver, dyspepsia, bilious headache, costiveness, sour stomach, jaundice, heartburn, nervousness, restlessness, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• And the feeling of the summer and the fall was buried deep under tiredness, sleepiness, and nervousness and discomfort. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Mrs. Pegler's cup, rattling against her saucer as she held it, denoted some nervousness on her part. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• This letter has been the cure of all the little nervousness I have been feeling lately. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She was most impressed, however, by the extreme pallor of his face and by the nervousness of his manner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He seemed to be a shy man, struggling against nervousness, and spoke in a very constrained way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His plump face was twitching with his nervousness, and his fingers could not keep still. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The nervousness had increased since Mrs. Hale's death, probably because he dwelt upon it more exclusively. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You're given to nervousness, ain't you, Sir? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But her nervousness made the big stallion nervous, too, and he jerked his head, his nostrils widening at the firing and the noise of the bombs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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