Her rank got her past a nervous guard at a side entrance.

"I don't want to be no clay pigeon in a shooting gallery for nervous guards."

Indian raids and pirate attacks kept villagers on nervous guard.

A nervous Pakistani guard could shoot us dead as we stood in the street.

Our nervous Iraqi guards kept us inside the small bungalow that was 'home' for the 12 of us.

"Put your goggles on and grab this," he said to a nervous guard.

We can predict the plot from the minute a man goes to the electric chair while a growling, nervous guard looks on.

When the nervous civilian guards asked what they were doing, the white seamen explained.

"I can kill him before you get off a shot," he told the nervous guard.

There were six of us in a small, dark room, including a nervous guard who felt the liaison lacked adequate approval.