Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.””You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect...

There were more nerves than the first time I pitched in Safeco Field. I wasn’t sure how the arm would be. I’d heard so many stories about people coming back and their arms blowing out...

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves.

It’s my first time throwing out a first pitch. There are no nerves, though. I’m ready to go.

I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.

I haven’t played that much in a long time and I felt the nerves. On the first and second goals, you could really tell.

Winslow bounced over on the balls of his feet, clearly not experiencing any sort of crash. ‘Aren’t your guys nervous? I’m nervous as all hell.”There’s nothing to be nervous about,’ Beck said, joining them. ‘Nerves...

We were able to put Colby in there and he gave us a spark. That got them settled down. That 90 yard drive right before halftime was big time for us. I think it got...

Anger can be defeated by controlling our emotions without upsetting the nerves.

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.

She felt nervy as all her excitements turned into weaknesses

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life...

[It would not be long] ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout...

Perhaps nerves or the pressure could get to them and we could nick something.

Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

I am inundated with feeling. I feel like a pinball machine on tilt. All the buzzers are ringing, lights are flashing, and I am about to fry my circuits. Nothing is coming in,and nothing is...

There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart,I didn’t know why. By the time I made my mind that it was impossible for meto do, there alighted the fear, haunting me...

I was nervous. Like an ice cube, I just froze up. Then I melted in some strange guy’s drink.

Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.

It was like a physical impact, something vital and quick, happening to us both. And I knew, from that moment, that whatever happened between us, we might disagree, get on each other’s nerves, quarrel, do...

-the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man…