" "I will not stay," said Miss Noble, putting her hand into her small basket, and holding some article inside it nervously; "I have left a friend in the churchyard.
This delicate-looking man, himself nervously perturbed, found the needed stimulus in his strenuous circumstances, and through that difficult night and morning, while he had the air of an animated corpse returned to movement without warmth, holding the mastery by its chill impassibility, his mind was intensely at work thinking of what he had to guard against and what would win him security.
He started nervously and looked up as she entered.
Brooke, sticking his eye-glasses on nervously, and exploring the edges of a folded paper which he held in his hand; "and she would like to act—depend upon it, as an executrix Dorothea would want to act.
Brooke, taking up the paper and trying to bear the attack as easily as his neighbor did, but coloring and smiling rather nervously; "that about roaring himself red at rotten boroughs—I never made a speech about rotten boroughs in my life.
Casaubon shrank nervously from communicating on the subject with Sir James Chettam, between whom and himself there had never been any cordiality, and who would immediately think of Dorothea without any mention of her.
Casaubon was nervously conscious that he was expected to manifest a powerful mind.
Ned smiled nervously, while Lydgate, drawing the "Keepsake" towards him and opening it, gave a short scornful laugh and tossed up his chin, as if in wonderment at human folly.
" "It has come at an unfortunate time," said Caleb, in his hesitating way, looking down at the notes and nervously fingering the paper, "Christmas upon us—I'm rather hard up just now.
" asked Toad, nervously.
" said the Mole, a trifle nervously.
"Oh, she does look really dead," whispered Ruby Gillis nervously, watching the still, white little face under the flickering shadows of the birches.
" "Oh, Anne, do come quick," implored Diana nervously.
"I don't know what I wouldn't sooner have had happen," thought Marilla, as she nervously shelled the peas.
"Don't cry, Amelia," said Herbert kindly, pulling nervously at his spiky grey hair.
"Better do what the captain orders," said Starkey nervously.
"I do wish Peter would come back," every one of them said nervously, though in height and still more in breadth they were all larger than their captain.
And after he had coughed nervously two or three times, and cleaned his whiskers and wiped his mouth, he said, "Ahem—er—you know of course that all ships have rats in them, Doctor, do you not?
His face was pale, and he stared at his feet while wringing his hands nervously.
" So the parents hid in the nearby closet and waited nervously.