In search of refuge for what the great naturalist John Muir called America's "tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people," you could do about as well on the interstate. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In an hour, having concocted some stew and baked his damper, the single-handed nerve-shaken, old sailor set sail, and I knew him no more. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In shallow water, too, fish are chased until they become so exhausted and nerve-shaken that they partially bury themselves in the sand, or endeavour to elude observation by concealing themselves beneath stone or coral, or by remaining passive among seaweed, trusting, no doubt, to protective tints and assimilation with their surroundings. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Hildreth was quite nerve-shaken, and so was Darrie. ❋ Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 (1922)
Similarly, when our men come in from the morning watch nerve-shaken and chilled to the bone, as they often are, and they must get asleep in five minutes, it is necessary that they should receive a shot of medicine which happens to be called rum. ❋ Unknown (1917)
This aerial electricity must have wonderful curative properties for certain disorders, and I wonder that physicians do not more often advise for nerve-shaken, over-civilised people a sojourn in these regions. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)
A wiry, slight man though a real "shellback," one who had been steeped in and saturated with every sea, was "giving the sea best," nerve-shaken, so he said -- and yet sailing a cutter with but 3 or 4 inches of free board "single-handed." ❋ Unknown (1887)
Italian sculpture-galleries, living in the sunny, ardent past; he came back nerve-shaken and low in health. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
I reminded him of the roughness of the way, his nerve-shaken condition, and assured him I would not be gone long. ❋ John Muir (1876)
It was long after dark when we reached our adventurous, but nerve-shaken companion who, of course, was anxious and lonely, not being accustomed to solitude, however kindly and flowery and full of sweet bird-song and stream-song. ❋ John Muir (1876)
A nation of "tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people" seek in the parks an escape from "the vice of over-industry and the deadly apathy of luxury." ❋ About John Muir | Hot Web Trends (2009)
“shellback,” one who had been steeped in and saturated with every sea, was “giving the sea best,” nerve-shaken, so he said — and yet sailing a cutter with but 3 or 4 inches of free board “single-handed.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
a riot likely to be strictly inquired into, glided about with an humble and dismayed aspect, like men whose spirits being exhausted in the revel and the dangers of a desperate debauch over-night, are nerve-shaken, timorous, and unenterprising on the succeeding day. ❋ Unknown (1822)
