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Meanings of nervous irritation in English

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Usage of nervous irritation in English
1
The words were spoken in a moment of intense nervous irritation.
December Love
2
He was half angry with himself at his nervous irritation of the evening before.
He Fell in Love with His Wife
3
But her nervous irritation made her determined to defy it.
The Way of Ambition
4
These tidings of a fight lost set Laura and Vittoria quivering with nervous irritation.
Vittoria — Volume 6
5
She fell into deep depression and languor, broken occasionally by fits of nervous irritation.
White Lies
6
These injuries cause considerable nervous irritation in the system, and sometimes cause lock-jaw and death.
Cattle and Their Diseases / Embracing Their History and Breeds, ...
7
In the nervous irritation which produced this ungracious answer, she overthrew one of the flower-pots.
Poor Miss Finch
8
As he spoke he saw her antennae quivering miserably, tried to temper his nervous irritation.
Perdido Street Station
9
The elder girl, as she walked to and fro, spoke with nervous irritation in her voice.
A Rock in the Baltic
10
The girl's dark eyes, unmoved from his face, roused in him a spasm of nervous irritation.
Saint's Progress
11
Pierre, who was relapsing into nervous irritation, wanted to know what Marowsko meant by this phrase.
Pierre and Jean
12
Besides, he must be in a terrible state of nervous irritation, as was apparent from numerous signs.
The Child of Pleasure
13
His conduct-otherwise quite incomprehensible-maybe the result of some latent nervous irritation which medical help might reach.
Man and Wife
14
He is, this afternoon, in a state of nervous sensitiveness which just stops short of nervous irritation.
The Moonstone
15
A line or two of nervous irritation marked themselves about her eyes, and her colour had faded.
The Pool in the Desert
16
At this time, last year, you were suffering from nervous irritation, and you slept wretchedly at night.
The Moonstone
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United Kingdom
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