1 To Ethan there was something vaguely ominous in this stolid rejection of free food and warmth, and he wondered what had happened on the drive to nerve Jotham to such stoicism.
2 In this atmosphere, as nerve straining as watching a slow fuse burn toward a barrel of gunpowder, Scarlett came rapidly back to strength.
3 He rose, squaring his shoulders aggressively, and stepped toward her with a reddening brow; but she held her footing, though every nerve tore at her to retreat as he advanced.
4 Lily's nature was incapable of such renewal: she could feel other demands only through her own, and no pain was long vivid which did not press on an answering nerve.
5 She felt so profoundly tired that she thought she must fall asleep at once; but as soon as she had lain down every nerve started once more into separate wakefulness.
6 By this time there wasn't a nerve in me that hadn't been twisted.
7 His companion explained the situation, and the lawyer took the paper and began to read it, while Jurgis stood clutching the desk with knotted hands, trembling in every nerve.
8 Jurgis had not known this, or he would have swallowed the stuff in desperation; as it was, every nerve of him was a-quiver with shame and rage.
9 His nerve almost failed him now, but he clenched his hands.
10 His person, though muscular, was rather attenuated than full; but every nerve and muscle appeared strung and indurated by unremitted exposure and toil.
11 He felt that every nerve in his body would be an ear to hear the voices, while other men would remain stolid and deaf.
12 "Well, he was a reg'lar jim-dandy fer nerve, wa'n't he," said he finally in a little awestruck voice.
13 Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
14 What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
15 Tom had been lying two days since the fatal night, not suffering, for every nerve of suffering was blunted and destroyed.