...No mannishattire could disguise Diane's charms; nor could nerve and cold couragethat any man might envy detract from her femininity...
Various 「Astounding Stories, August, 1931」
...Cyr went to the guillotine, I was strainingevery nerve, using every influence I possessed, to save him and his family...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...A man in his trade wants the nerve of a buffalo...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...The pile towered above me like a mausoleum,and I reflected that it must take some nerve to burgle an empty house...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...“Maybe, but he’s got the kind of nerve that’s wanted...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...I can feel yet thesour, bleak smell of wet rock and ice and the hard nerve pain that racked myforehead...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...The man was made of pride, and every proud nerve ofhim was caught on the raw...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...And, while I am straining every nerve to get ready for Ujiji, Shaw is satisfied with looking on listlessly...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...It requires more nerve than I possess, to dispel all the dark presentiments that come upon the mind...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...But in order to be fair to these most excellent canines, it should be recorded that they recovered a certain proportion of their nerve after a rifle had been fired...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...She lookedbehind and sideways, started at strange sounds and heard still stranger,until every nerve within her stood sharp and quivering, stretched toscream at the barest touch...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「Darkwater」
...“Nonsense!” said the Cousin, interrupting the Brookline Lamb’s sarcasm in regard to nerve cures...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
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