What is "nervousness"

Usage examples of "nervousness".

Rhapsody had said nothing, Ashe picked up on her increased nervousness.

He looked at his watch and as the second hand touched the top stepped up and raised the bugle to the megaphone, and the nervousness dropped from him like a discarded blouse, and he was suddenly alone, gone away from the rest of them.

Poor Bunce had darkling throes of mind, but struggled with desperate nervousness and could not be at ease till the straightforward talk began again.

Clerval said that if I could have put on the appearance of nervousness the empress, who is kindness itself, would certainly have encouraged me.

Jael shivered with envy, and with nervousness, because she sensed in Dap a sly querying interest toward her now.

Caffeine, we now know, can bring with it, in sufficient quantity, restlessness, nervousness, excitement, insomnia, flushed face, diuresis, gastrointestinal disturbance, muscle twitching, rambling flow of thought and speech, tachycardia or cardiac arrhythmia, periods of inexhaustibility, psychomotor agitation, and several other of the well-known conditions of our accelerated times.

Often there is a hacking cough, nervousness, lassitude, and a generally enfeebled condition of the whole system.

The nervous system tends to become much more sensitive upon a vegetarian, especially fruitarian, diet, and people often attribute their increased nervousness and irritability to the diet when it is simply that they now react more quickly to poisons.

Oh, but there was scant pleasure in a naked, scrawny little mound that inexperience and nervousness rendered juiceless as well as uncomfortable!

The Kalds watched him with their blood-pink eyes, yawning and whimpering with animal nervousness.

I said, dropping the subjects of my sentences like Colonel Mering in my nervousness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, wheezing with nervousness as he watched Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior, wished that he might dive down into those fairy-tale tunnels supposedly running under the churches, for what use were those rabbit holes now that the Secesh traitors would be shown what to do with their slavery laws with bayonet and Enfield?

He had been a great sufferer for many years, continually experiencing the nervousness, smarting, pain and burning, with occasional attacks of urethritis, common to the malady in this form.

Despite his nervousness he was supremely confident that his hour had struck.

Discovering this new side to the Wysling, Minda found some of her nervousness concerning him ran from her.