All 12 Uses of
anxiety
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- I was in great anxiety lest I should implicate the friend who harbored me.†
Chpt 18
- I had already staid longer than was intended, and I knew my presence must be a source of perpetual anxiety to my kind benefactress.†
Chpt 20
- In the midst of my illness, grandmother broke down under the weight and anxiety and toil.†
Chpt 23
- A new anxiety began to trouble me.
Chpt 26 *anxiety = nervousness or worry
- There was one person there, who ought to have had some sympathy with the anxiety of the child's friends at home; but the links of such relations as he had formed with me, are easily broken and cast away as rubbish.†
Chpt 27
- I said all I could to comfort her; but it was a sad reflection, that instead of being able to help her, I was a constant source of anxiety and trouble.†
Chpt 28
- Aggie little dreamed that my grandmother knew where her daughter was concealed, and that the stooping form of her old neighbor was bending under a similar burden of anxiety and fear; but these dangerous secrets deepened the sympathy between the two old persecuted mothers.†
Chpt 29
- I knew that my concealment was an ever-present source of anxiety, and that the older she grew the more nervously fearful she was of discovery.†
Chpt 29
- I tried to suppress my own anxiety, and speak soothingly to her.†
Chpt 29
- My greatest anxiety now was to obtain employment.†
Chpt 33
- All that winter I lived in a state of anxiety.†
Chpt 40
- This Empire State is a shabby place of refuge for the oppressed; but here, through anxiety, turmoil, and despair, the freedom of Linda and her children was finally secured, by the exertions of a generous friend.†
Chpt Appe
Definition:
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(anxiety) nervousness or worry