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Every year it gets more difficult to make money." "One month more of the British and Imperial," Stanley Rees sighed, "and we should both have been millionaires." "And as it is," his uncle groaned, "I am beginning to get a little nervous about our hotel bill."
I swear, with all the strength I have left, never to see you nor write you again. God bless you, my A noise at the window brought Jimmy to the surface. It was Annette Fenton, and she seemed nervous and excited. "Mercy, Jimmy! What's the m-matter? You looked like you were caught eating doughnuts in study hour. What a funny smell! Say, Jimmy; don't you want to do something for me?"
He was generally a dark sort of a boy, and it made a good deal of difference in him to look pale. I was sure he was going to be sick, at last, although it was rather queer for him to knock under when the voyage was pretty nearly over, and I began to laugh, when he said to me, in a nervous sort of way: "I tell you what it is, I believe that we've gone past the mouth of the Savannah River.
Like the statement of grievances of 1765 and the declaration of 1774, this great state paper, drawn by the nervous pen of Thomas Jefferson, set forth the causes of ill-feeling toward Great Britain. First comes a statement of certain self-evident truths, a reiteration of those rights of man upon which Otis had dwelt in his speech of 1761.
"Indeed but I shall," replied the doctor. "Why not?" "It will be so dangerous for a mounted man." "Tchah!" exclaimed the doctor, "my pony's too fond of himself to tumble us down the cliff; but there, as you are so nervous about me I will not ride. Here, Bob, you ride the pony home, and I'll walk." "Ride him home along the cliff path, father?" said Bob, looking rather white. "Yes, of course.
His boy had gone; Enid, whom he tenderly loved, had left his house; Hubert, to whom also he was much attached, lay ill again, and was scarcely expected to recover. By the time the funeral was over, the General had worked himself up to such a state of nervous anxiety, that it was felt by his friends that some immediate change must be made in his manner of life.
I guessed at a certain tension between the pair and a want of consideration on the young man's part, arising perhaps from selfishness. His mother was nervous, in suspense, wanting to be at rest as to whether she should have his company on the voyage or be obliged to struggle alone.
Again she called, and Lilian received her in the small drawing-room. They looked at each other with earnest faces, Lilian wondering whether this visit had anything to do with the election. Serena was nervous, and could not reply composedly to the ordinary phrases of politeness with which she was received.
To the goldfinch's song he gave attention, standing motionless except for a slight nervous jerk of one wing, looking and listening as intently as though studying the notes for future use. The freedom of the birds in the room surprised him, as he showed plainly by the eager glances with which he followed every movement and marked each act.
The growing excitement of the captain, his nervous consultations with the engineer and the supercargo, were most uncomfortable; presently the passengers began to take part in the deliberations, and to observe the behaviour of the ship.
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