Word: nervously
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...physical feeling of hunger was not a possibility to me just then. I made one discovery that troubled me. Bertha's eyes looked dull and heavy, with dark rings about them, as if she, too, had suffered from loss of sleep. I fancied that she seemed even more nervous than myself; she had a way of compressing her lips that I had never noticed before...
...Professor paused a moment, pulling a leaf to pieces in a nervous and abstracted way; while I restrained my curiosity as best I might, and waited for the sequel...
Eight o'clock saw us seated in the front row of the Howard; I determined to give him a benefit for once. Before the curtain rose, he was nervous and fidgety, but, the curtain once up, and his eyes were glued to the stage; they opened wider and wider, spots of color came in his cheeks, and his breath came and went rapidly; to look at him was more fun than the play. Never once during the evening did he look away from the stage, and when the play was over he bade me good-night, and without saying more...
...aggrieved student, the marking system, (pardon me for mentioning it!) that contradictory, illogical, unjust method of classifying men, seems likely to assume an importance more than local; for it is in full operation even in our lower schools, where its effects are noticeably injurious. Work at high pressure, nervous energy and its result, nervous exhaustion, are evils put by our modern Solomons on the shoulders of young people. That cases of nervous disease occur even among young children, as a direct effect of our present school system, is known to every physician. People wonder at the increase of weak eyes...