All 11 Uses of
anxiety
in
The House of Mirth
- Ned's case was familiar to Lily: she had seen his charming eyes—which had a good deal more poetry in them than the sonnets—change from surprise to amusement, and from amusement to anxiety, as he passed under the spell of the terrible god of chance; and she was afraid of discovering the same symptoms in her own case.†
Chpt 1.3
- From everything—from money, from poverty, from ease and anxiety, from all the material accidents.†
Chpt 1.6
- Mrs. Trenor's words were moreover emphasized for her hearer by anxieties which she herself could scarcely guess.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- The fact that her immediate anxieties were relieved did not blind her to a possibility of their recurrence; it merely gave her enough buoyancy to rise once more above her doubts and feel a renewed faith in her beauty, her power, and her general fitness to attract a brilliant destiny.†
Chpt 1.8
- Her whole future might hinge on her way of answering him: she had to stop and consider that, in the stress of her other anxieties, as a breathless fugitive may have to pause at the cross-roads and try to decide coolly which turn to take.†
Chpt 1.15
- But I should be selfish and ungrateful if I made that a reason for accepting all you offer, with no better return to make than the desire to be free from my anxieties.†
Chpt 1.15
- The sudden and exquisite reaction from her anxieties had had the effect of throwing the recent past so far back that even Selden, as part of it, retained a certain air of unreality.†
Chpt 2.2
- Selden had in fact given her the utmost measure of his sureness, had even stretched it a shade to meet the anxiety in her eyes.†
Chpt 2.3
- And now, as he turned away, strolling down the hill toward the station, that anxiety remained with him as the visible justification of his own.†
Chpt 2.3
- Miss Bart had not revealed to Gerty the full extent of her anxiety.†
Chpt 2.8
- A fire shone through the polished flanks of the iron stove, and near it stood a crib in which a baby was sitting upright, with incipient anxiety struggling for expression on a countenance still placid with sleep.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(anxiety) nervousness or worry