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Nerves

noun

An uneasy psychological state. Synonym: nervousness.

Control of your emotions.

Nerve

noun

Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body. Synonym: nervus.

The courage to carry on. Synonyms: heart, mettle, spunk. "You haven't got the heart for baseball"

Impudent aggressiveness. Synonyms: boldness, brass, cheek, face. "He had the effrontery to question my honesty"

verb

(past & past part. nerved; pres. part. nerving)

Get ready for something difficult or unpleasant. Synonym: steel.

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"Nerves" Quotes from Famous Books

... clears the head o'doited Lear; Thou cheers ahe heart o' drooping Care; Thou strings the nerves o' Labour sair, At's weary toil; Though even brightens dark Despair Wi' ...

— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... alleviate the wretched annoyance of the business. I have always said that there is nothing like pain; toothache, dumb-ague, arthritic gout, it does not matter what you call it, if the screw is put upon the nerves sufficiently strong, there is nothing left in heaven or in earth that can interest the sufferer. Still, even to this there is the consolation that it cannot last for ever. Either you will be relieved and have a good hour again before the sun goes down, or else ...

— Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... aloud. The tears rolled down their cheeks. In their terror there was nothing ludicrous; they were in as great physical pain as were some of the hundreds in Rheims who had been hit. And yet others of their fellow townsmen living in the same street, and with the same allotment of brains and nerves, were treating the bombardment with the indifference they would show to ...

— With the Allies • Richard Harding Davis

... decaying corpse; and to cook blood and give it another name (gravy) may be an artifice to please the palate, but it is blood, (blood that once coursed through the body of a highly sensitive and nervous being), just the same. Surely a person whose olfactory nerves have not been blunted prefers the delicate aroma of ripe fruit to the sickly smell of mortifying ...

— No Animal Food - and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes • Rupert H. Wheldon

... peculiar one—the wild rush, the bleats of terror, gasps of agony, and the fiendish growls of attack and the sounds of ravenous gluttony. With every hair bristling, Satan rose and sprang from the woods—and stopped with a fierce tingling of the nerves that brought him horror and fascination. One of the white shapes lay still before him. There was a great steaming red splotch on the snow, and a strange odor in the air that made him dizzy; but only for a moment. Another white shape rushed by. A tawny streak followed, and then, ...

— Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories • John Fox, Jr.

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