In sheer nervousness, Hilda also dropped to her knees on the hearthrug, and began to worry the fire with the poker.

"It's nothing, mamaa little nervousness.

Of course both boys were keyed up to a state of intense nervousness.

"Extraordinary nervousness and depression prevail in Germany, owing to the losses in the western offensive," said Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam on April 29, quoting a German military writer, Capt. von Salzmann, who said: "Our losses have been enormous.

His face was pale and haggard, and growing premature by age, his wealth of raven hair was unkempt and hung in tangled locks over his forehead, his hand was unsteady and trembling from extreme nervousness, but he was sober enough to comprehend the situation, and to feel a deep sense of remorse and shame, when he gazed upon the weary head from whence he had bereft its magnificent covering.

A sad depression of spirits, a most unaccountable nervousness; from which I have been partially relieved by an odd accident.

She said: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is my husband, a very quiet and well-behaved man, whose only fault is excessive nervousness.

There is nothing that a seaman more dislikes than to be suspected of extra-nervousness on the subject of doubtful dangers of this sort.

Yet when I approached M. de Wolmar's house at Clarens, I was in a state of frantic nervousness.

His closely trimmed, sandy moustache was streaked with grey, his eyes were a little bloodshot, he had the shrinking manner of one who suffers from habitual nervousness.

The young girl was crying bitterly, partly because custom so decreed, partly from honest nervousness.

He saw Barker flush slightly, and did not miss the jerky nervousness of his answerthat or the forced enthusiasm.

* The "mother" was full of joy; her melancholy nervousness almost wholly forsook her.

For her illness she had every sympathy, but for the morbid nervousness which seemed to accompany it, none at all.

Strangely enough, in spite of our mutual nervousness, we won every trick of the game, and one of our opponents jokingly quoted the old saw: "Lucky at cards, unlucky in love."

With the approach of winter an obscure nervousness spread over the land.

"I'll come some other time, mistress," he said with obvious nervousness.

Still, in spite of the warlike spirit of the nation and the burning desire to settle off Russia once and for all, there was an undercurrent of overstrained nervousness.

He listened to it all with an air of the most painful nervousness, his cheeks were positively green, his lips seemed dry and parched, for he repeatedly passed his tongue over them, and when Constable E 18 deposed that at 2 a.m. on the morning of February 2nd he had seen the accused and spoken to him at the corner of Percy Street and Tottenham Court Road, young Greenhill all but fainted.

The peculiar nervousness which had taken possession of me was now passing off, to be replaced by a species of mental exaltation.

She was a voluble woman, and having overcome her preliminary nervousness more than hinted that if he gave less time to the law and more to his trade it would be better for himself and everybody else.

She stood up suddenly from pure nervousness, and crossed the room as though she meant to go to the piano, which was a very unfortunate move, as she seldom played, and never for him.

'Pray excuse me, sirdon't misunderstand meI only wished to ask whether you have noticed the name written on the flyleaf of the book you have just bought?' The respectful nervousness of his voice naturally made me suppose at first that the man was going to beg; but he seemed no ordinary mendicant.

I put the whole thing impatiently away from me, and turned to other work; but I found I could not conquer a certain deep-seated nervousness; so at last I locked my desk, told the boy I would not be back, and took a cab for a long drive through the park.

Our friend showed us a portrait of Collins, painted by himself, the very picture of most sensitive nervousness.