The most are glad to have escaped in an honourable manner from the nerve-racking, trench warfare.

Sir Stephen's precarious condition had been known, they said, to his medical adviser, who had for some time past tried to persuade him to relinquish his arduous and nerve-racking occupations, and to take repose.

" It was fetched; nerve-racking blows rained on the grille; puffing servants applied it as a lever, as a battering-ram, as a club.

I've had a nerve-racking day.

Besides I am a bachelor and would sooner spend Christmas, as to whose irritating and meaningless annoyance I cordially agree with you, among strangers than among my married sisters' numerous and nerve-racking families.

Lorrimer did not realize in his amazement that Dickie's mind had always busied itself with this exciting and nerve-racking matter of choosing words.

Each of these groups was, of course, accompanied by an officer guideseveral were detailed at the Quartier for this special dutywhose complex and nerve-racking task it was to answer all questions, make all arrangements, report to each local commandant, pass sentries, and comfortably waft his flock of civilians through the maze of barriers which cover every foot, so to speak, of the region near the front.

These were anxious and nerve-racking days for both Morse and Vail, and it is small wonder that there should have been some slight friction.

Then, Madamthis I have told to nobody but yourselfthen I found among her papersaddressed "to my dear husband"a message, written only a few days before her death, with a hand shaken by that nerve-racking and fatal malady which she endured so patientlybegging me to marry again.

It had been a nerve-racking voyage in many ways.

(Unjustly so, for no mere egoist would have toiled as he toiled for Greek emancipation, in the nerve-racking campaign which cost him his life.)

There was a chorus of sounds from the cataract, the river, the wind, the trees, and the birds, a mighty music of elements of the earth and of life, rising and falling rhythmically, and inspiring, but nerve-racking.

Picture, then, yourself lied about by hireling spies, thrown into prison, compelled to breathe foul air and sleep upon a floor, fed on black bread, and held day after day for sentence in nerve-racking suspense.

" Being held up as a spy, however nerve-racking, contributes considerably to one's sense of self-importance.

If she is the right kind of a girl, honest and delicate minded, it is nerve-racking to be talked about, and sacrilege to be talked to.

It was most wearing, irritating, nerve-racking work.

The only redeeming feature about the whole nerve-racking business was that he found me as soon as he did.

And to Baldy and all the others came rest and forgetfulness of such trials as nerve-racking sounds that destroy well-earned sleep, and the enforced companionship of advanced females that insist upon having a paw in the management of affairs that should not concern them.

Especially in our large cities with their great opportunities for the creation and accumulation of wealth, the "lust of power" is shown by the nerve-racking efforts to obtain wealth by the most reckless methods.

At the moment he had imagined that they were some village folk, wending their way towards Acol: now he was conscious of nerve-racking irritation at the thought that if he had only turned the mare's head back toward the Courtas he had at one time intended to dohe could have averted this present meetingit almost seemed like a confrontationhere, in this cottage on the self-same spot, where thought of murder had first struck upon his brain.

It seemed to represent the satisfaction of that morbid curiosity which had been such a terrible obsession during these past nerve-racking days.

The shortened work day was a hundred times more fatiguing to the workers because of the increased speed and nerve-racking noise and jar of the machinery.

But I could not endure to ride; a nerve-racking restlessness was on me, a desire for movement, for utter exhaustion, so that I could no longer have even strength to think.

The situation was strange, nerve-racking, and she shrank back as though frightened before the black silence confronting her.

One of those terrific things that go far toward making the life of a pedestrian a nerve-racking succession of startles.