If Mr. Moffat still showed nervousness, it was for some other reason than anxiety about this little body hiding from sight behind the proudly held figures of father and mother.

And Avery Van Brunt, as he talked on and on, felt a nervousness under the dumb gaze.

It was a strange manoeuvre,so strange and threatening in aspect that the young man forgot his nervousness in an instant, cocked his pistol, and waited to see what mischief all this meant.

And Tom Valiance did his best to cheer me and hearten me, and relieve my nervousness.

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.

A few days afterward the girl, whom she happened to meet somewhere or other, displaying perhaps a similar nervousness, told the same story.

" He lighted the pipe, wondering what other thing he might do to allay her nervousness.

" "He didn't go out my way, sir, if you please," stuttered the amazed servant, his curiosity overcoming his nervousness.

Though we tried to laugh away our nervousness, I am quite willing to admit that we had visions of court-martials and prison cells and firing parties.

" She had lost her nervousness.

Still it illustrates the nervousness and apprehension under which Michelangelo's acquaintances continually lived.

He was about to add: 'This visit is a kindness that I did not expect, and one which I certainly did not deserve;' but to speak these words would necessitate an apology for the rudeness he felt he was guilty of in his last letter, and the fact that he knew that Father O'Grady had come to talk to him about Nora increased his nervousness.

Such exhaustive mental labour induced a certain nervousness that could only be allayed by relaxation.

" Mr. Grimm laid a hand upon her arm, a hand that had never known nervousness.

"It's nothing, mamaa little nervousness.

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

Sir Timothy mistook his nervousness for proper respect, and maintained a distant but condescending graciousness towards him.

"You wanna make a complaint, huh?" Lanpher had not failed to note the nervousness of Racey's tone.

As for Larsen, though, he declared afterward (to others and to himself even) that he noticed no nervousness in the dog; that he was only intent on getting several birds for breakfast.

The Vicar observed his nervousness.

It was now growing so late that Sterry placed himself near the rear door to watch for the expected signal from Vesey, feeling, as the minutes passed, a nervousness greater than at any time before.

Nothing" (he again reassured the doctor's nervousness) "to do with my family.

His tiff with his mother renewed all his nervousness and sense of failure.

He seemed cool, collected, impassive; but the major, of hotter Celtic blood, could not suppress his fidgety nervousness.

His quick gaze took in her nervousness and trouble of mind.