It may have been from a lamp outside, but in my nervous state I did not think of that.

This wasn't exactly true, of course, given my suddenly nervous state of mind, but what else could I say?

But the fact is you'll learn the hard truths of your predicament soon enough, without getting yourself into a nervous state now.

But this meeting has significant potential to do bad, given the nervous state of world financial markets.

You understand that I was in a very nervous state.

He found Stevens in a highly nervous state about a week before her demise.

Harry realized that in his nervous state he had hardly caught a word.

He was in a highly nervous state, and wouldn't have been there at all himself, except that his closest friends had insisted.

He didn't want to interrogate the child when she was in such a nervous state.

Every time there's a death here, they're in a nervous state for two or three days.