This duplication went merrily on for years before it was generally discovered that the telephone is not an ear, but a
nerve system; and that such an experiment as a duplicate
nerve system has never been attempted by Nature, even in her most frivolous moods.
At that moment, in the state of my
nerves, I absolutely believed she lied; and if I once more closed my eyes it was before the dazzle of the three or four possible ways in which I might take this up.
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our
nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
"Well, he certainly had
nerve, to deny, practically, that he had set Jacinto up to do what he did," commented Tom.
Baggs'
nerves. It was also of some importance that I should speak to her while she was sober enough to understand what I meant in a general way.
In the wretched state of my
nerves, loud sound of any kind is indescribable torture to me.
There are
nerves and muscles in our frames whose functions and whose methods of working it seems a sort of sacrilege to describe by cold physiological names and surgical technicalities, and the monk's talk suggested to me something of this kind.
"Though he had not
nerves for coming away with us, and setting off again afterwards to pay a formal visit here, he will make his way over to Kellynch one day by himself, you may depend on it.
"Besides it would be rotten for your
nerves," he said gravely.
At last, cautiously, he drew himself well within the tunnel, and again he lay at full length upon the floor, fighting to regain control of his shattered
nerves.
She cannot win in a real battle, having no muscles, only
nerves.
Nerves make her jump out of a moving motor-car, or refuse to be married fashionably.
It is so subtle, so difficult of analysis, that persons who are a little limited, or even simply persons of strong
nerves, will not understand a single atom of it.