Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true imagery his description of the dancer is supreme. Byron speaks of the "maid of the ever twinkling feet," but Byron never could have told about "the nervous movements and demonstrations which indicated the bewitching power of the music to which the Terphsichoreans glided across the floor below." The scene, we are told, "was one from fairy land," with "generous bowls of lemonade" scattered around, (could the ordinary mortal imagine such a fitting drink for fairies as lemonade?) while above this domain of fays hung the Yale crew's shell, which "looked down upon the people below, recalling the time...
...passing an examination was condemned as being hurtful, not only to the mind but also to the body; and the changing of the time of holding the examinations to the winter months, when the mind is active, was favored, instead of having them in the spring when the nervous system in many instances is practically prostrated...
...keys his nervous fingers stray...
...play was again begun, and Harvard attempted to brace, but their tends were lamed and nervous from the repeated fouling of the Yale rush line, and they fumbled the ball several times, giving two touchdowns to Yale through Beck and Farwell, from which one goal was kicked by Richards. The ball was brought out and kicking by Keith and Mason carried the ball up the field. Appleton and Kendall did good tackling, while Cabot and Morison gained considerable ground by their rushing. Adams, the substitute, did his work almost perfectly and made a great success of this his first appearance...
Grass widow. - Yes, but it is very wearing on a high-strung, nervous disposition to have a husband who has no sympathies with one's most sacred aspirations...