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Nervous

adjective

Easily agitated. "A nervous thoroughbred"

Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety. Synonyms: anxious, queasy, uneasy, unquiet. "Cast anxious glances behind her" , "Those nervous moments before takeoff" , "An unquiet mind"

Of or relating to the nervous system. Synonym: neural. "Neural disorder"

Excited in anticipation. Synonym: aflutter.

Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses). Synonyms: flighty, skittish, spooky.

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"Nervous" Quotes from Famous Books

... tormentor still haunted me, and loaded me with reproaches. "And is this all the gratitude I am to expect from you, Mr. Schlemihl—you, whom I have been watching all the weary day, until you should recover from your nervous attack? What a fool's part I have been enacting! It is of no use flying from me, Mr. Perverse—we are inseparable—you have my gold, I have your shadow; this exchange deprives us both of peace. Did you ever hear of a man's shadow leaving ...

— Peter Schlemihl etc. • Chamisso et. al.

... would never have got this deposition. Cobb wouldn't have been the first to weaken, you may be sure of that. But after she had told the whole story, why, there was no use in holding out. Badly burned? No, strange to say, she was not badly burned, but frightened out of her wits. The nervous shock was too much for her and soon led to fatal results. ...

— The Master of Silence • Irving Bacheller

... been about her health. It was all that her utmost exertions could accomplish, to appear for a short time in the day—some evenings she came into company only for half an hour, on other days only for a few minutes, just walked through the rooms, paid her compliments to every body, complained of a nervous head-ache, left Belinda to do the honours for ...

— Tales and Novels, Vol. III - Belinda • Maria Edgeworth

... was enormous. He ate heavy meat three times a day, but took little or no exercise. The pimples on his face became worse and worse. He grew peevish and nervous. He hated girls, and when in their society was a very bull-calf for bashfulness and awkward self-consciousness. At times the strangest and most morbid fancies took possession of him, chief of which was that every one was looking at him while he was ...

— Vandover and the Brute • Frank Norris

... to convey the intelligence to the King of Arles. The baron was himself too much excited with the momentous results at last developed, and the still more momentous sequel already shadowed forth in the uncertain future, to remark the nervous and somewhat jaded appearance of his son. His first words, after hastily ...

— The Truce of God - A Tale of the Eleventh Century • George Henry Miles

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