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Updated: June 23, 2025
There are some things which a woman will not stand, and one is the sight of an abstracted man behind a paper, letting his crumbs fall down his waistcoat, when she feels nervy. "Lovely morning, dearest," said Osborn; "you ought to go for a brisk walk." "Perhaps I will." "You do look awf'ly seedy." "I feel it." "I hope your mother will come round this morning.
"I guess they did," replied Tommy. "One of them was here before you were yesterday. He chased you up the valley, but came back, saying that he couldn't get a shot." "Pretty nervy kind of a fellow, eh?" asked the train robber. "He looks to me," declared Tommy, "as if he'd fight a rattlesnake and give him the first bite.
That was nervy of her and I frowned; after which she remarked that she objected to voting without being told in advance that the cause of liberty was trembling in the voter's palm. I remember wondering at the time where she had dug up all that rot.
He felt, that evening, the want of something sedative, a desire to rest from thought of any kind. The court had been crowded, stuffy; the air, as he walked home, soft, sou'-westerly, charged with coming moisture, no quality of vigour in it; he felt relaxed, tired, even nervy, and for once the loneliness of his house seemed strange and comfortless.
Then only did she notice that the strong, nervy hand which held hers trembled perceptibly, and that his lips which for an instant rested on her fingers were burning hot. Once more the two men were alone.
No doubt they had hidden themselves behind newspapers with a child-like faith in the impenetrability of the shield, even as he was hiding. Poor beggars! It was no better than the ostrich habit of tucking your head into the sand, to crowd yourself behind your morning paper. You felt awfully nervy behind it, and you kept a scowl handy.
If Mendoza was making any sort of speed he ought to have come that far. He began to watch for the lights of the machine. The girl must be plucky, even if she was foolish, to dare a trip like this with a strange Mexican. Well, he was glad Bob's sister was nervy; he liked nervy girls and he liked Bob.
You know, the way you reach down, and pat 'm on the head, and say, 'Nice doggie, nice doggie, old fellow, even if it is a street cur, with a chawed ear, and no tail. They growl and show their teeth, but they like it. A woman Lordy! there comes the brakeman. Let's beat it. Ain't we the nervy old hens!"
"Make good like that," Collins approved, "and when I sell the mule you'll go along as part of the turn, or I miss my guess. And it will be some turn. There'll be at least two more like you, who'll have to be nervy and know how to fall. Get busy. Try him again."
Sir Marmaduke was no weakling, yet encumbered by his fantastic clothes he was no match for the smith. Adam turned him about in his nervy hands like a puppet. Now he was in front and above him, glaring down at the man he hated with eyes which would have searched the very depths of his enemy's soul. "Thou damned foreigner!" he growled between clenched teeth, "thou vermin! ... Thou toad!
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