All 8 Uses of
anxiety
in
Jane Eyre
- He stood at Miss Temple's side; he was speaking low in her ear: I did not doubt he was making disclosures of my villainy; and I watched her eye with painful anxiety, expecting every moment to see its dark orb turn on me a glance of repugnance and contempt.†
Chpt 7 *
- When Mrs. Fairfax had bidden me a kind good-night, and I had fastened my door, gazed leisurely round, and in some measure effaced the eerie impression made by that wide hall, that dark and spacious staircase, and that long, cold gallery, by the livelier aspect of my little room, I remembered that, after a day of bodily fatigue and mental anxiety, I was now at last in safe haven.†
Chpt 11
- I knew gipsies and fortune-tellers did not express themselves as this seeming old woman had expressed herself; besides I had noted her feigned voice, her anxiety to conceal her features.†
Chpt 19
- With anxiety I watched his eye rove over the gay stores: he fixed on a rich silk of the most brilliant amethyst dye, and a superb pink satin.†
Chpt 24
- Mrs. Fairfax, I saw, approved me: her anxiety on my account vanished; therefore I was certain I did well.†
Chpt 24
- If I get a little thin, it is with anxiety about my prospects, yet unsettled — my departure, continually procrastinated.†
Chpt 32
- I was astonished when a fortnight passed without reply; but when two months wore away, and day after day the post arrived and brought nothing for me, I fell a prey to the keenest anxiety.†
Chpt 34
- I replied, that nothing ailed me save anxiety of mind, which I hoped soon to alleviate.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(anxiety) nervousness or worry