But before it came to that, he would try every expedient: he would strain every nerve.

VII CAPTAIN SELOVER LOSES HIS NERVE

See! 'Ain't got the nerve to answer, have you?" "Awmaybe I know, too, that she's not the kind of a girl that would turn up where she's not" "If you wasn't a classy-looking kind of boy, Jimmie, that a fly girl like May likes to be seen out with, she couldn't find you with magnifying glasses, not if you was born with the golden rule in your mouth and had swallowed it.

One would think that to meet with such a singular personage in this wild, lonely place would have shaken any man's nerves; but Tom was a hard-minded fellow, not easily daunted, and he had lived so long with a termagant wife that he did not even fear the devil.

But he did stop at the tavern, and there drank some brandy to steady his nerves; and he did not forget that there was an ambuscade of Rebels at Blue's Gap, and that he was to share in the attack on them at daylight: he spurred his horse, as he drew nearer Romney.

For, as the case of the thyroid and the adrenal so well shows, secretions which, when directly interacting, are mutually reinforcing, when affecting nerves, may become clashing opponents.

Each day something occurs to try my nerves.

There is a piper who infests the street in which I live, and sets my nerves on edge with his horrible droning.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it awhile, Josie; it may soothe your nerve.

Everything must be brought down to a cold material level to satisfy them; but several nights in that room would shatter even your nerves, my friend.

Catrina was restless, moving from chair to chair, from fire-place to window, with a lack of repose which would certainly have touched the nerves of a less lethargic person than the countess.

It quiets the nerves, makes a man look in charity upon the world, and to judge with a chastened lenity the shortcomings of his neighbors.

"Perhaps," he said, heartily, "if you would put a drop of whisky in the cup it would brace up your mother's nerves.

Many of our divisions remained in line for a length of time that requires nerves of steel, while others were sent in again after only a few days of rest.

That young man having strung up his nerves, and prepared himself for the encounter, determined to face the awful uncle, with all the courage and dignity of the famous family which he represented.

Better take a dose of lavender to calm your nerves," and Louis waved his hand to her with careless grace, as he gathered up the reins.

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

MR. LONDON BOURNE'S. After what has been said in this chapter to try the patience and irritate the nerves of the prejudiced, if there should be such among our readers, they will doubtless deem it quite intolerable to be introduced, not as hitherto to a family in whose faces the lineaments and the complexion of the white man are discernible, relieving the ebon hue, but to a household of genuine unadulterated negroes.

It lay in his grasp steady as a log, and I saw that Percy Darrow's fate was in the hands of that dangerous class of natural marksman that possesses no nerves.

She felt the daunting loneliness, the quiet jarred her nerve.

I'll try to break his nerve, George, and drill him through the arm, say.

This time Bluff must have steeled his nerves, and covered the side of the bear, for with the report the animal keeled over, made a vain attempt to get up again, gave a few kicks, and then lay still.

It warmed her heart and strengthened her nerve.

It is like an inhuman machine and it takes the very nerve out of you to watch it.

But when we stood idle, while Sam went aft for instructions, I had recovered sufficient nerve to turn my eyes in that direction, only to observe that the young woman sat with head turned away, gazing out over the rail at the shore, her chin cupped in her hands, her thoughts apparently far away.