Out of sheer nervousness she took the cigarette from Arkady's mouth.

Most men, knowing they were under constant scrutiny for the slightest infraction, began to make more mistakes from sheer nervousness.

"Of course," said Capes, and threw a newly lit cigar into the fire through sheer nervousness.

Finally, out of sheer nervousness, I began telling a story too.

Not from the fire, simmering across the room; from sheer nervousness.

She sat down, partly because the grip on her wrist was urging her, but more from sheer nervousness.

Tommy sat through it all twisting and turning his cap from sheer nervousness.

From sheer nervousness she said a few more things in the way of ordinary chat and wondered how she would start on her subject.

"Oh," said Carrie, closing one hand tightly out of sheer nervousness.

My dear boys, what can you expect from a man who out of sheer nervousness had just flung overboard a pair of new shoes!