4 uses
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Definition
nervousness or worry
- At the thought he laid down his knife and fork again, and a flush of anxiety rose to his finely-wrinkled cheek.Chapter 22 (19% in)
- "What on earth will they expect me to talk about?" her helpless eyes implored him, at the very moment that her dazzling apparition was calling forth the same anxiety in their own bosoms.Chapter 20 (59% in)
- Mingott is much better: the doctor feels no anxiety whatever"; and Lefferts, with profuse expressions of relief, asked him if he had heard that there were beastly bad rumours again about Beaufort....Chapter 28 (15% in)
- In an instant she was all tender anxiety.Chapter 33 (91% in)
There are no more uses of "anxiety" in The Age of Innocence.
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