“Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have thenerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”
A trip to the whistling, fire-cracking Stadio San Paolo is always a test ofnerve but Wenger's men have already outplayed the Italians once.
2021 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Hungary 0-4 England”, inBBC[2]:
Southgate's side kept theirnerve and discipline in the unsettling, intimidating surroundings of Budapest, with the behaviour of Hungary's fans leaving much to be desired, to turn up the heat and punish their opponents ruthlessly once they had gone ahead.
1959, Newell A Perry, Eric O Ridgway, US patent US2870103 A[3]
The nerviness (ability to recover quickly from strain or stretching) ... generally requires it to be broken down ormasticated on the mill before the other compounding ingredients are added. In the break-down operation, heat is inherently generated by the sheer action of the milling or mixing equipment on the polymer. Therefore, it is difficult to maintain the desired low temperatures during the milling or mixing... An object of this invention is to reduce the inherentnerve of ... polymers ... during break-down.
Whilst thus their fury rages at the bay, My sword our cables cut, I call'd to weigh, And charg'd my men, as they from fate would fly, Eachnerve to strain, each bending oar to ply.
polymer technology: elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymer
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The yellow-bearded Mailey, the old warrior, scarred with many combats and eager for more, stood beside his wife, the gentle squire who bore his weapons andnerved his arm.
1861, Elizabeth Gaskell,The Grey Woman:
And how I strained my ears, andnerved my hands and limbs, beginning to twitch with convulsive movements, which I feared might betray me!
The liquornerved up several of the men after their icy march.
1907,Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson,Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published1980, page289:
The shocknerved her, and she ran aimlessly till she fell, and for a time lay, but making a barrier of her arms, that the child should not be crushed.
