"Nerve-racking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not rising," she said, "but I've had a rather nerve-racking experience, as no one knows better than yourselves. I want to thank you with all my heart for the way you came to my help when I was unable ...
— The Radio Boys' First Wireless - Or Winning the Ferberton Prize • Allen Chapman
... ideas for getting out, each of which appears as though it would work, but in the end does not, usually in a quite entertaining way. Eventually they do think of a way, which I will not divulge here, and they get out, but it had been a long nerve-racking period ...
— The Cliff Climbers - A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" • Captain Mayne Reid
... chorus of sounds from the cataract, the river, the wind, the trees, and the birds, a mighty music of elements of the earth and of life, rising and falling rhythmically, and inspiring, but nerve-racking. Fragrance of the Jasmine seized my hand and ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... soundly and dreamlessly; I wakened quietly in the great chamber into which Rador had ushered O'Keefe and myself after that culminating experience of crowded, nerve-racking hours—the facing ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... glass. "The fact is," said he, "this war is a nerve-racking business. I never dreamed I was so jumpy until I came home. I hate being by myself. I've kept my poor devoted mother up till one o'clock in the morning. To-night she struck, small blame to her; but, after five minutes on my lones, I felt as if I should go off my head. So I routed out the car ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke |
