All 5 Uses of
anxiety
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.†
Chpt 2
- His heart was, I knew, affected, and the constant anxiety in which he lived, however chimerical the cause of it might be, was evidently having a serious effect upon his health.†
Chpt 2 *
- I will say nothing to add to his anxieties, but I will take my own steps to attain my own end.†
Chpt 10
- I have no doubt that anxiety and exposure have driven him off his head.†
Chpt 12
- He then had it returned and obtained another—a most instructive incident, since it proved conclusively to my mind that we were dealing with a real hound, as no other supposition could explain this anxiety to obtain an old boot and this indifference to a new one.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(anxiety) nervousness or worry