4655 examples of nerve in sentences

'If I were dragged every nerve apart, and every thought turned into a fiery dart,and that is so,' he said,'yet

But we do fight for hearth and home, and the thought of this, methinks, shall nerve us strong as giants.

They gave one scope for bluffing, and although his antagonists declared his luck was good, he knew his nerve was better.

The divers had bolted on plates to cover the holes in the vessel's bilge before one fell ill and his mate's nerve went.

"Meanin' that while we can do our duty by those who sent us, we will strain every nerve in his behalf; but if it should so chance that their safety depended upon us, we would give service to the greatest number.

There was nothing, therefore, for the Turk to do but to try to hold another position, and he was straining every nerve to reach it.

It was evident from what was happening on this front, not only where two divisions of infantry had to strain every nerve to hold on to what they had got but where the Yeomanry Mounted Division were battling against enormous odds in the worse country to the north-west, that the Turks were not going to allow us to get to the Nablus road without making a direct attack on the Jerusalem defences.

In the mean time the Germans, who were speculating about the unity of their own stock and nation and were straining every nerve in that difficult enterprise, could not excuse the desire of independence in the Italians, and contended for the boasted rights of Austria and Germany over the lands and the coasts of Italy, with the people that inhabited them.

Didn't poor Mr. Pitman just touch the sensitive nerve of it when, taking her in with his facetious, cautious eyes, he spoke to her, right out, of the old, old story, the everlasting little wonder of her beauty?

"Up till the last minute the internationalists have done their duty, and on the other side of our frontiers every nerve is being strained to preserve peace and to make war impossible.

You've got nerve.

Why, it gets even my nerve!

Open then He threw his treasurythoughtless of the past Or futurepresent joy absorbing all His faculties, and thrilling every nerve.

By God's help he has nerve to kill the Philistine giant.

But the interaction of conscious and subconscious mind requires a similar interaction between the corresponding systems of nerves, and one conspicuous connection by which this is provided is the "vagus" nerve.

"They've got to take us first," said he, and Anerley thought his nerve might be better if he did not ask for a translation.

I tried the concentration gag on him for a pearl ring he had on, thinking I had him under the gypsy curse, but there was a person who had the nerve to call herself a lady who had been saying things about me sitting at another table with a Harry who had led me to believe that I was his own little Star of Hope, and I just couldn't get my mind centered.

It was a nerve-shaking sermon.

It was enough even now to set every nerve throbbing with a tense excitement.

Sinclair sees Woodville, figures that's the place where Jig'll be hung, and he loses his nerve.

"I'll land that pair before the posse gets to 'em, and when I land 'em I won't do no arguing with fists!" "Say, I call that nerve," put in the storekeeper, with patent admiration in his eyes, while he smoothed a fold of the cloth.

"Plenty of nerve in a gent like that," went on Sandersen, his pale blue eyes becoming dreamy.

He sent his memory lurching back into far places and old times, but he had no nerve for reminiscence.

"Firstly,if underived virtue be peculiar to the Deity, can it be the duty of a creature to have it?" Here a little waxen hand came with a very gentle tap on his huge shoulder, and "Doctor, tea is ready," penetrated drowsily to the nerve of his ear, as a sound heard in sleep.

Howland had not spoken a word, but every nerve in his body tingled strangely.

4655 examples of  nerve  in sentences