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Sentences starting with anxiety

Anxiety for her would surely have bound me to this house and the city when the time came to make the escape, for without her my life would now be valueless. [10]
Anxiety and suspense were expressed in every face: Amasis' last hour was drawing very near. [10]
Anxiety and care ultimately throw her into the arms of the haggard and grim monster death. [5]
Anxiety for Mrs. Temple, problems that lost themselves in a dozen conjectures, all idle-- these agitated me almost beyond my power of self-control. [9]
Anxiety for your sister does not cloud your pleasure alone, but saddens me too. [10]
Anxiety on the score of Kate Marcy, as well as a desire to see Mr. Bentley and tell him of the conversation with the bishop, directed his steps toward Dalton Street. [9]
Anxiety is this moment agitating the minds of tens of thousands of mothers about the education of their daughters. [4]
Anxiety grew, and he was questioned. [5]
Anxiety begins to be expressed about the dawn. [4]
Anxiety possessed him, and he swiftly devised means to be rid of Krool before harm could be done. [11]

Sentences ending with anxiety

Nevertheless, Herr Ernst would not have gone to the entertainment had his wife's condition given cause for anxiety. [10]
Anatole followed him with his usual jaunty step but his face betrayed anxiety. [2]
Philip was devoured with anxiety. [5]
My old friend, whose beard had been shaken in many a tempest, knew too well that there is cause enough for anxiety. [6]
I don't see what there was in Mr. Dryfoos's manner to give you any anxiety. [8]
And as to what concerns your salvation, have no anxiety. [10]
You know me well, fear is unknown to me--but I feel great anxiety. [10]
The old man was rejoiced to learn that his granddaughter had escaped so great a peril uninjured, yet he was still burdened by sore anxiety. [10]
But the town was mostly of wood, and its rapid growth was a matter of anxiety. [4]
This delightful evening was followed by a day of excitement and grave anxiety. [10]

Short sentences using anxiety

This anxiety was soon ended. [5]
You can imagine our anxiety. [9]
Therein lay his anxiety. [9]

Sentences containing anxiety two or more times

He was neither happy nor unhappy, but in equilibrium, walking with sure steps, and the anxiety in which he had fallen asleep the night before was gone: anxiety lest the woman should have fled, or changed her mind, or committed some act of desperation. [9]
Soon after, despatches from Grant abated my anxiety for him, and in proportion abated my anxiety about any movement of yours. [7]
Our original anxiety as to what we were going to do with ourselves, was suddenly transformed into anxiety about what we were going to do with our poet. [5]
At its close a mingled feeling of relief and anxiety was felt by all; relief that their favorite companion had escaped so fearful a danger, anxiety for the brave young Lydian who had risked his life to save him. [10]

More example sentences with the word anxiety in them

In fact, the young mother had waited from early dawn with increasing anxiety for her husband. [10]
All was not yet lost; and he breathed more freely as he went back to the house where duty, and his anxiety for his father, required his presence. [10]
I had simply written her that after the campaign I had gone for a rest to California; yet in her letters to me, after this information had reached her, I detected a restrained anxiety and affection that troubled me. [9]
Try as she would to stifle her anxiety, it obtruded itself, and she could eat no breakfast. [11]
Necessity, he thought, would bring him back to where he had a life free from anxiety awaiting him. [10]
For us the worst anxiety was over, and our mother recovered her composure. [10]
The clear-eyed young woman of the future, always dear and often an anxiety, will this year be an object of enthusiasm. [4]
So he gazed with tender anxiety at the features convulsed by pain and, when she at last opened her eyes, smiled at her with paternal affection. [10]
I often think, with no little interest and some degree of anxiety, about her future. [6]
I was filled with impatience, anticipation, yes, with anxiety concerning the adventure that was now so imminent; with wavering doubts. [9]
He was obsessed with anxiety, for he had a dark fear that some ill had happened to the two. [11]
The physician noted with anxiety how his master's breast heaved and his eyelids quivered; but when he offered Caesar a soothing potion, he waved him away, and commanded him to cease from troubling him. [10]
I was racked with anxiety about Farrar; at last, when I had all but given up hope, I received a telegram from him dated at Detroit, saying he would arrive with the doctor that evening. [9]
And he hoped, with an admixture of anxiety such as he had never known before, that the painter's demeanor would be such as should allow him to show mercy. [10]
They watched him with an aching anxiety, and there was anger in the doctor's face. [11]
Presently he spoke, with a little deferential anxiety in the tone. [11]
While she was wiping her eyes, Wolf described the great anxiety which, after Charles's death, overpowered the Quijadas in Villagarcia. [10]
The poor relation who was staying at the house would insist on Helen's remaining a few days: Old Sophy was in such a condition, that it kept her in continual anxiety, and there were many cares which Helen could take off from her. [6]
If his mistress, who had left him full of anxiety from the fear that her departure would deeply agitate the blind man, should learn how indifferently he had received it! [10]
A young priest whispered to his neighbor, "He is praying--" and Anana noticed with silent anxiety the strong hand of his teacher clutching the manuscript so tightly that the slight material of which it consisted threatened to split. [10]
The cruel anxiety which tortured her on this account had urged her at Prufening to the loud forwardness which hitherto she had always shunned. [10]
Serious questions to which she had never given a thought had been brought before her; and yet, in this brief period of anxiety she had gained the precious sense of youthfulness and of capacity for action when she had to depend on herself. [10]
But the anxiety which dominated her mind prevented her pursuing the same thought longer. [10]
The firing, however, which became more and more violent, was louder than any other noise; and when we saw our mother wild with anxiety, we, too, began to be alarmed for our dear, sweet Martha. [10]
Who cherishes anxiety when confidently expecting victory? [10]
He also realized what terrible anxiety his absence would cause his mother. [10]
I cannot describe what a load of anxiety was lifted from my mind when I found that he was only asleep. [5]
Sorrow and anxiety were suddenly forgotten, thought and calculation were far from her; for some minutes she felt nothing but that she, too, was laughing heartily, irrepressibly, like the young healthful human creature that she was. [10]
The window spaces were closed by wooden shutters, and whenever they moved with a low creaking or louder banging Hermon started and forgot everything else in anxiety about his invalid friend, whose suffering every strong wind brought on again, and often seriously increased. [10]
And so this went on, the naked man perishing with anxiety, and expecting every moment to see people come in sight. [5]
Terror and grief weighed on thousands of hearts, while some tried to make a profit out of the prevailing anxiety, and others--many others--went forth, as light-hearted as ever, in pursuit of pleasure and amusement. [10]
Others preferred to watch this futile battle rather than give themselves up to the anxiety which filled their minds. [10]
And meanwhile she was worn out with anxiety for her family, and with increasing fatigue. [10]
In Sally's eyes was the story of the past three years: of love and temptation and struggle, of watchfulness and yearning and anxiety, of determination and an inviolable hope. [11]
But while she was struggling not to weep aloud, emotion and anxiety for the old man who, through her fault, would be exposed to so much danger, extorted the cry: "Take care of him, Herr Pyramus! [10]
Not only Carnac was stirred by the question, for Barouche, who had listened to his foe's speech with admiring anxiety, was startled. [11]
The old lady was sitting wearily in an arm-chair; she could still walk, but amid her anxiety and distress a strange twitching had affected her hands. [10]
When the army was in the field her anxiety was ceaseless; day and night were spent in restlessness and watching. [10]
The King's cause was hers, and to be permitted to work for it gained a special charm by her son's appointment to be governor of the country, which filled her with mingled anxiety and joy. [10]
My only anxiety was for Nancy, who had gone to New York the day after my last talk with her; and it was only by telephoning to her house that I discovered when she was expected to return.... [9]
When the governor wakes in the morning he thinks first of his salary; he has not the least anxiety about his daily bread or the support of his family. [4]
The crowd outside waited in a terrible anxiety. [11]
The architect was waited for with much anxiety, for the rooms originally furnished for the Emperor in the Caesareum had been despoiled and disarranged to decorate the rooms at Lochias, and Pontius was wanted to superintend their immediate rehabilitation. [10]
The exultation of victory, the joy of success, had taken full possession of Ephraim and his youthful band; but when the sun set and there was still no sign of Hur and his band, Nun and his followers were seized with anxiety. [10]
Her slumber was very light, and she often opened her large, blue eyes and gazed with touching anxiety at the sick woman. [10]
Daphne seemed the very incarnation of desirable, artless, heart-refreshing womanliness, but his memory could not dwell with her long; anxiety concerning Chello's report only too quickly interrupted it, as soon as he yielded to its charm. [10]
She came in upon them trembling, pale, yet glowing with her anxiety. [11]
My interest grew, until it partook of the anxiety of the mother. [5]
It made him uneasy, and when anxiety had once taken root in his heart it sent its shoots forward and backward, and he remembered many things in which Eva had been different the day before. [10]
Barry's anger became uneasiness, and Stafford's interest turned to anxiety. [11]
Her brother Sampson under such circumstances would certainly have evinced some confusion or anxiety, but she--all composure--pulled out the tin box, and calmly took a pinch of snuff. [12]
All anxiety, apprehension, uncertainty, vanished out of these young people's hearts and left them filled with a great peace. [5]
Sometimes as the two talked Angele would join them; and then there was a sudden silence, which made her flush with embarrassment, anxiety or anger. [11]
And it is true that the satisfaction of having a situation, of doing something, the relief to the previous daily anxiety and almost despair, raised his spirits. [4]
While anxiety and trouble were brooding over the steward's dwelling, while dismay and disappointment were clouding the souls of its inhabitants, the hall of the Muses was merry with feasting and laughter. [10]
The slender fingers trembled in his clasp, and when, with loving anxiety, he drew her towards him, he felt the tremor of her delicate limbs, while her eyes expressed bitter suffering and terrible dread. [10]
They were walking towards Fourth Avenue one evening--the priest could not resist the impulse to accompany her a little way towards her home--after a day of unusual labor and anxiety. [4]
Fear, anxiety and torturing doubt had from the first saddened Anna's existence with the unprincipled adventurer and gambler, who had succeeded in beguiling her young, experienced heart. [10]
But my anxiety tortured me most, after they had released me and I was going back to my house from the castle. [10]
Was it a tortured conscience that drove him hither and thither, or was he as innocent as she was, and was it longing, love, and anxiety that bereft him of sleep? [10]
It would look too much like anxiety to get in at a feast where no plate had been provided for him. [5]
Euthymia began, in tones that expressed deep anxiety. [6]
No one had told him so, but he knew it, and was seized with such anxiety about the doctor, that drops of perspiration stood on his brow. [10]
But Anne had told her that his anxiety was a pitiful thing to see, and that it had left him perceptibly weaker. [9]
I look forward to to-morrow with a mixture of impatience and anxiety. [14]
This news increased to the utmost the anxiety from which Kuni had long suffered. [10]
On the way to the Serapeum, Melissa's anxiety increased. [10]
Then I turned to the Chevalier, who was watching me curiously, yet hiding anxiety, for he had upheld his dignity with some accent since he had come into my service: "Chevalier," said I, "you shall find me more humane than my persecutors at Quebec. [11]
It was necessary to recuperate, and the anxiety for a profitable play, or some other adventure that would bring a quick and generous return, grew out of this need. [5]
The secretary tried to question him, but Ulrich did not betray what troubled him, only alluding in general terms to a great anxiety that burdened his mind. [10]
In his anxiety to keep under cover he must have lost himself in this offshoot of Deception Pass, and thereby in some unaccountable manner, missed the canyon with the trails. [13]
The day waned to its close, and the waiting multitudes outside the palace grew crazed with anxiety and apprehension. [5]
The anxiety was to invent and launch something that should float on to the generations to come, and carry the name of the builder and the fame of his generation. [4]
In your anxiety to get all the juice you can out of a sin, you make a man repent of it in three or four different ways. [5]
Nothing had happened to cause him grave anxiety, yet he had been below par for several hours. [11]
Her heart began to beat faster, and at the same time questions crowded on her excited brain, each bringing with it fresh anxiety for those she loved, of whom, till now, she had been thinking with calm reassurance. [10]
As twilight began to approach, the anxiety of the deserted wife became unendurable. [10]
Carnac was keyed to anxiety, but outwardly seemed moving with brilliant certainty. [11]
But as the time went on, he manifested some anxiety and surprise, glancing at the clock more frequently and at the window less hopefully than before. [12]
I could see through it all the fine, sound nature, by its healthy simplicity mastering anxiety, care, and fear. [11]
She had passed through hours of torment; for her concern about Melissa, who had become very dear to her, had given her much more anxiety than even the loss of her beloved picture. [10]
The faces of three of them showed just a shade of anxiety. [11]
Who could have thought, yesterday morning, that her darling would so soon cause her fresh vexation and anxiety. [10]
Two weeks after this, while talking in a company, I looked up and detected this same man boring through and through me with his intense eye, and noted again his twitching muscles and his feverish anxiety to speak. [5]
But instead of this, the strain of anxiety was universal and heart-rending. [4]
At any time this work called for a clearness of mind that precluded anxiety and worry; but under the present circumstances it required all her vigor and obstinate tenacity to pin her attention upon her task. [13]
It was at this time that our growing anxiety to have him look over our life-charts and suggest improvements began to fade out and give place to other interests. [5]
Though Barbara at this time rarely left her own fireside, her husband might often have wished that she would return to the conduct of the previous winter, for he perceived the torturing anxiety which was consuming her. [10]
And Lady Jane this evening was agitated, and once or twice furtively looked at something under the bar-counter; in fact, a close observer would have noticed anger or anxiety in the eyes of the daughter of Dick Waldron, the keeper of the Saints' Repose. [11]
He forbore from thinking, now, of the looming events which might thrust them apart,--put a physical distance between them,--his anxiety was concerned with the possible snapping of the thread of sympathy which had bound them. [9]
Nor did he think that the pang at his heart had another cause than religious anxiety. [4]
I can not think that my anxiety was all vulgar smallness then. [11]
Now Luna saw the young Nuremberg merchant gaze after the Swiss with an expression of such deep anxiety and pain upon his manly features that she felt the utmost pity for him. [10]
Philanthropy, anxiety about the working-classes, is nowhere more serious or in the fashion than it is in London. [4]
The shortness of the time at their disposal was a still greater source of anxiety, and to this was added the information that one hundred and twenty thousand workmen had perished during the restoration of the canal which Pharaoh Necho nearly completed. [10]
We had reached the stage where anxiety begins to take the place of excitement, and we shifted restlessly from spot to spot and looked at the tug. [9]
Then Publius broke the silence, uttering with the warmest feeling and yet with anxiety in his deep, pure voice, only one single word; and the word was her name "Klea. [10]
He saw that the reputation of the University was in very real peril, and he walked the floor in anxiety, talking, and trying to think out some way to meet the difficulty. [5]
Marcus kissed first the priest's hand and then his mother's, and, after enquiring with filial anxiety after her health, informed her that Demetrius would presently be coming to take leave of her. [10]
I studied all the points with great anxiety, and presented them with whatever of ability and sense of justice I could bring to bear. [7]

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