He paces if he engages in a measured, continuous walk, as from nervousness, impatience, or anger.

He had been ailing for some time, and his nervousness increased so greatly under the pressure of the great events following one another in rapid succession, that when the news came that the enemy had invaded the country he thought Hungary was lost.

It happened indeed that when she saw him rise at sight of her from the settee where he had told her five minutes before that she would find him, it was just with her nervousness that his presence seemed, as through an odd suggestion of help, to connect itself.

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.

Because of her nervousness, of her overstrain, she had lost a good deal of her mental poise; and she divined that the only help for that was certainty of Dorn's fate.

Then she began to say something else, stopped, and with much nervousness asked: "Père Jerome, what was the name of that man?" "His name?" said the priest.

When she had unfastened his wraps, her hands trembling the while with nervousness, she found that he was pot-bellied, with small legs and arms.

My nervousness increased.

His nervousness and apprehension seemed to have suddenly left him, and in its place was a terrible, stony calmness, an air of inflexible determination.

To the one who finds it a narcotic, the abandonment of tobacco means inviting the height of all nervousness.

The nervousness which had been on him in the morning, and which he had hoped that he had shaken off, swept over him again in an overpowering wave.

The flicker was almost too slight to notice, but it hinted at nervousness and Kit dropped the message back.

It had been slit farther to clean the infection, until you could have thrust your fist into it, and, as the surgeon worked, the leg, partly from weakness, partly from the man's nervousness, trembled like a leaf.

Whether or no she were a Native Daughter, native good breeding fought with and got the better of fatigue, nervousness, and irritation.

Suddenly a great nervousness seized him, because he remembered the time, the year before, when the Lakerim crew rowed Troy, and when his oar had broken just before the finish, so that he had been compelled to jump out into the water, and had missed the joy of riding over the line with his winning Lakerimmers.

There was something so ludicrous in the contrast between the hair-trigger nervousness of the Mexican and the drowsy unconcern of the stallion that a murmur of laughter rose from the crowd about the starting line and drifted across the field.

The brood mares had passed to a sullen nervousness and were kicking savagely at everything that came near.

He was in much such a tumult of anger, curiosity, stubbornness, and nervousness as agitates a child on its first appearance at school; but in his struggle not to show his feelings he exaggerated his pose into a seeming of bored indifference.

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

The nervousness of Mr. Tarbill increased.

And in his nervousness the man began to caper about wildly.

His first thought was to decline under the plea of nervousness; then, he thought this would be cowardly and unmanly.

The younger girls showed some nervousness, but the old housewives marshalled them as coolly as possible, talking and laughing together, and by their unconcern completely deceived the few Indians who were lurking near byfor the main body had not yet come up.

If a lady would take a little more stimulant than was good for her he could not be persuaded to call her complaint "nervousness;" when idleness and ennui preyed upon a languid frame, he had a startling habit of rousing the patient by a mental cautery.

The nervousness and peevishness of our times are chiefly attributable to tea and coffee.