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nervousness or worry
- said Mrs. Moss, with some anxiety.2.2 -- Book 2 Chapter 2 -- The Christmas Holidays (39% in)
anxiety = nervousness or worry
- It had come across his mind that if he were hard upon his sister, it might somehow tend to make Tom hard upon Maggie at some distant day, when her father was no longer there to take her part; for simple people, like our friend Mr. Tulliver, are apt to clothe unimpeachable feelings in erroneous ideas, and this was his confused way of explaining to himself that his love and anxiety for "the little wench" had given him a new sensibility toward his sister.1.8 -- Book 1 Chapter 8 -- Mr. Tulliver Shows His Weaker Side (**% in)
- Mrs. Tulliver's thoughts had been temporarily diverted from the quarrel with Mrs. Glegg by millinery and maternal cares, but now the great theme of the bonnet was thrown into perspective, and the children were out of the way, yesterday's anxieties recurred.1.9 -- Book 1 Chapter 9 -- To Garum Firs (70% in)
- Finding it unnecessary to plead for the Tullivers, it was natural that aunt Pullet should relax a little in her anxiety for them, and recur to the annoyance she had suffered yesterday from the offspring of that apparently ill-fated house.1.13 -- Book 1 Chapter 13 -- Mr. Tulliver Further Entangles the Skein…. (17% in)
- Tom, looking round with some anxiety at this announcement of his prospects, unthinkingly withdrew a small rattle he was amusing baby Moss with, whereupon she, being a baby that knew her own mind with remarkable clearness, instantaneously expressed her sentiments in a piercing yell, and was not to be appeased even by the restoration of the rattle, feeling apparently that the original wrong of having it taken from her remained in all its force.2.2 -- Book 2 Chapter 2 -- The Christmas Holidays (50% in)
- Anxiety about the future had never entered Tom's mind.2.7 -- Book 2 Chapter 7 -- The Golden Gates Are Passed (54% in)
- "No, Tom, father didn't wish it," said Maggie, her anxiety about his feeling helping her to master her agitation.2.7 -- Book 2 Chapter 7 -- The Golden Gates Are Passed (71% in)
- The mother was getting fond of her tall, brown girl,—the only bit of furniture now on which she could bestow her anxiety and pride; and Maggie, in spite of her own ascetic wish to have no personal adornment, was obliged to give way to her mother about her hair, and submit to have the abundant black locks plaited into a coronet on the summit of her head, after the pitiable fashion of those antiquated times.4.3 -- Book 4 Chapter 3 -- A Voice from the Past (95% in)
- But Tom was too keen-sighted to rest satisfied with such an interpretation; he had seen clearly enough that there was something distinct from anxiety about her father in Maggie's excessive confusion.5.5 -- Book 5 Chapter 5 -- The Cloven Tree (26% in)
- "But, father, dear father," said Maggie, an unspeakable anxiety predominating over her grief, "you forgive him—you forgive every one now?"5.7 -- Book 5 Chapter 7 -- A Day of Reckoning (89% in)
- "You have not hurt yourself at all, I hope?" he said, bending to look in her face with anxiety.6.2 -- Book 6 Chapter 2 -- First Impressions (92% in)
- It'll give you more importance, and prepare you better for taking some of the anxiety off my shoulders by and by.6.5 -- Book 6 Chapter 5 -- Showing That Tom Had Opened the Oyster (60% in)
- Under the charm of her new pleasures, Maggie herself was ceasing to think, with her eager prefiguring imagination, of her future lot; and her anxiety about her first interview with Philip was losing its predominance; perhaps, unconsciously to herself, she was not sorry that the interview had been deferred.6.6 -- Book 6 Chapter 6 -- Illustrating the Laws of Attraction (28% in)
- "Did he say so?" said little Lucy, her hazel eyes opening wide with anxiety.6.6 -- Book 6 Chapter 6 -- Illustrating the Laws of Attraction (54% in)
- Philip said, in inexpressible anxiety, his imagination being only too ready to weave everything that was fatal to them both.6.7 -- Book 6 Chapter 7 -- Philip Re-enters (37% in)
- But to Philip's mind, filled already with a vague anxiety that was likely to find a definite ground for itself in any trivial incident, this sudden eagerness in Stephen, and the change in Maggie's face, which was plainly reflecting a beam from his, seemed so strong a contrast with the previous overwrought signs of indifference, as to be charged with painful meaning.6.7 -- Book 6 Chapter 7 -- Philip Re-enters (76% in)
- In the eagerness of her affectionate anxiety for Maggie, Lucy could not persuade herself to defer a conversation about her with Tom, who, she thought, with such a cup of joy before him as this rapid fulfilment of his wish about the Mill, must become pliant and flexible.6.12 -- Book 6 Chapter 12 -- A Family Party (79% in)
- He would not trust himself to see her, till he had assured himself that he could act from pure anxiety for her, and not from egoistic irritation.6.13 -- Book 6 Chapter 13 -- Borne Along by the Tide (42% in)
- Stephen was continually, through the morning, expressing his anxiety at the fatigue and discomfort she was suffering, and alluded to landing and to the change of motion and repose she would have in a carriage, wanting to assure himself more completely by presupposing that everything would be as he had arranged it.6.14 -- Book 6 Chapter 14 -- Waking (26% in)
- Maggie, all this while, was too entirely filled with a more agonizing anxiety to spend any thought on the view that was being taken of her conduct by the world of St. Ogg's; anxiety about Stephen, Lucy, Philip, beat on her poor heart in a hard, driving, ceaseless storm of mingled love, remorse, and pity.7.2 -- Book 7 Chapter 2 -- St. Ogg's Passes Judgment (29% in)
- Maggie, all this while, was too entirely filled with a more agonizing anxiety to spend any thought on the view that was being taken of her conduct by the world of St. Ogg's; anxiety about Stephen, Lucy, Philip, beat on her poor heart in a hard, driving, ceaseless storm of mingled love, remorse, and pity.7.2 -- Book 7 Chapter 2 -- St. Ogg's Passes Judgment (30% in)
- Across all her anxiety for the loved and the injured, those words shot again and again, like a horrible pang that would have brought misery and dread even into a heaven of delights.7.2 -- Book 7 Chapter 2 -- St. Ogg's Passes Judgment (32% in)
- Still two or three more days passed, and Maggie heard nothing of Philip; anxiety about him was becoming her predominant trouble, and she summoned courage at last to inquire about him of Dr. Kenn, on his next visit to her.7.3 -- Book 7 Chapter 3 -- Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable…. (50% in)
- There was no sense of present danger to check the outgoing of her mind to the old home; and she strained her eyes against the curtain of gloom that she might seize the first sight of her whereabout,—that she might catch some faint suggestion of the spot toward which all her anxieties tended.7.5 -- Book 7 Chapter 5 -- The Last Conflict (61% in)
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