"Nervy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pretty nervy," Jeff declared, indignantly, "to walk in on people like this, without a word of warning! Nobody but an idiot would expect people just coming home from their honeymoon to want to find their house filled ...
— The Second Violin • Grace S. Richmond
... rather nervy up there. I'm off to Europe to-morrow on the City of Boston, and I should like to see ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... fish, some limpets, and a multitude of water snakes, and other abominable forms; but my eyes slowly informed me of the fact, which I took in reluctantly and with extreme disgust, that the whole formed one living monster, a revolting compound of a large paunch with eyes, and a multitude of nervy, snaky, out-reaching, twining, grasping, tentacular arms, several feet in length, I should think, if extended, but then lying in a crowded undulating heap; the creature was dying, and the iridescence was passing over what seemed to be its body in waves ...
— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird
... quick, dark gaze. "Aye!" he said, "people'll be a bit nervy-like in towns, nowadays. The country be a good place for a healthy man, too; I don't want no better place than the country—never ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... the choice presented by Honore Grandissime to Joseph Frowenfeld, as the former on a lively brown colt and the apothecary on a nervy chestnut fell into a gentle, preliminary trot while yet in the rue Royale, looked after by that great admirer ...
— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable
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