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Updated: May 11, 2025
She felt that the family might like to be by themselves while perusing the first letter from Will since his latest escapade. "Oh, don't go!" exclaimed Grace, guessing her chums' intention. "Stay and hear what Will has to say. I'm sure papa would want you to," and she looked at Mr. Ford, who was nervously tearing open the envelope.
The old knight, who was habited like Katharine, all in red, because at that season the King favoured that colour, pulled nervously at his little goat's beard, for all conversations that savoured of politics and religion were to him very fearful. He stood back against the green hangings and fidgeted with his feet.
"Essie," she faltered, twisting her rings nervously, finally blurting out, "I'm afraid you'll have to go, Essie." The girl started violently. "Go?" she gasped. "Go?" Mrs. Terriberry nodded, relieved that it was out. "But why? Why?" It seemed too incredible to believe. This was the very last thing she had expected, or thought of. Mrs.
Endicott was very close when the man pushed something fiercely from him, and the body of a woman crashed heavily into the sage. Levelling the gun, he fired. The shot rang loud, and upon the edge of the depression a horse snorted nervously. The man pitched forward and lay sprawled grotesquely upon the ground and Endicott saw that his extended hand grasped a revolver.
'I didn't know until the last minute that they couldn't come, she reiterated nervously. Perhaps who knows? even she, poor soul, was dimly conscious that she had done a not very wise deed. But Toffy was all that was comforting and tender towards her, told her without flinching that of course she had done the right thing, and that it was awfully plucky of her to have come.
I couldn't understand why she scolded with such vehemence upon finding me writing in this little book instead of lying in bed; why she exclaimed so nervously over my escape and the horrors of jumping from windows, or sliding down ropes, or of being hurried along in fire panics until I was crushed to death. "Why, you talk as if there had been a fire," I cried, kissing her.
On that evening long ago and as she rode home beside her father he had made another unsuccessful effort to break through the wall that separated them. The heavy rains had swollen the streams they had to cross and when they had almost reached town he had stopped the horse on a wooden bridge. The horse danced nervously about and her father held the reins firmly and occasionally spoke to him.
I knew I never doubted it, that once you felt a thing to be right you would strike for it, with all your great strength at all costs at all " "I can't I I can't!" he whispered nervously. "Don't you see don't you see I " She leaned toward him, lifting her face close to his.
His hands and clothes were plastered with filth. "I'm goin' to lick the stuffin' out of you," he bellowed. Jeff said nothing. He was very white. His fingers worked nervously. "Yah! Yah! He's scared," the mob jeered. Jeff was. In that circle of hostile faces he found no sympathy. He had to stand up to the bully of the class, a boy who could have given him fifteen pounds.
Often he fell into a fit of absence, and gazed at vacancy with wide, miserable eyes. Returning to consciousness, he fidgeted nervously on his chair, dipped his pen for the hundredth time, bent forward in feverish determination to work. Useless; he scarcely knew what he wished to put into words, and his brain refused to construct the simplest sentence.
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