Citations:nervous

English citations of nervous

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1. Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried.
   • 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 161:

     They were looking at the table (which was spread out in great array); for these young housekeepers are always nervous on such points, and like to see that everything is right.