All 9 Uses of
anxiety
in
1776, by McCullough
- I have been in a continual state of anxiety and expectation ...it has been said 'tomorrow' and 'tomorrow' for this [past] month, but when the dreadful tomorrow will be I know not.†
p. 90.0 *anxiety = nervousness or worry
- "This day," he wrote on March 6, "the utmost distress and anxiety among the refugees and associators [Loyalists]....Blessed by God, our redemption draws near."†
p. 98.3
- THE ALARM AND ANXIETY among the Loyalists was extreme.†
p. 100.0
- He would later tell Congress he had not a doubt that he could defend the city, and he was eager to do so, for all his anxieties.†
p. 118.2anxieties = worries
- "You can scarcely conceive of the distress and anxiety which she then had," Knox would write to his brother William.†
p. 134.5anxiety = nervousness or worry
- Like General Putnam, Washington, too, had been awakened in the middle of the night with word of Grant's early assault, and at daybreak, still apprehensive of a second, larger attack on New York, Washington had watched with increasing anxiety as five enemy warships—Roebuck, Asia, Renown, Preston, and Repulse—started for the East River with a favorable wind and tide.†
p. 175.2
- Afterward, great anxiety, if not panic, set in.†
p. 196.3
- The anxiety of mind I was in then for the fate of the day....I would have given a thousand worlds to have had General Lee, or some experienced officer present to direct, or at least to approve what I had done," Glover later wrote.†
p. 232.4
- After the continuing frustrations and anxieties Lee had subjected him to, there must have been a feeling of deliverance for Washington.†
p. 266.7anxieties = worries