All 8 Uses of
anxiety
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- A sound of bells, which he heard at that moment, put an end to his anxiety; it was a stuffed manikin, which the vagabonds were suspending by the neck from the rope, a sort of scarecrow dressed in red, and so hung with mule-bells and larger bells, that one might have tricked out thirty Castilian mules with them.†
Chpt 1.2.6anxiety = nervousness or worry
- Meanwhile, Mahiette was gazing with ever-increasing anxiety at that wan, withered, dishevelled head, and her eyes filled with tears.†
Chpt 1.6.3 *
- Gringoire and the entire Court of Miracles were suffering mortal anxiety.†
Chpt 2.8.1
- The crowd became silent, and, in the midst of this silence full of anxiety and solemnity, the two leaves of the grand door swung back, as of themselves, on their hinges, which gave a creak like the sound of a fife.†
Chpt 2.8.6
- He gazed at her with anxiety, as though seeking to divine what she was saying to him.†
Chpt 2.9.2
- watched him with some anxiety.†
Chpt 2.10.5
- She fell upon her knees, with her head on her bed, her hands clasped over her head, full of anxiety and tremors, and, although a gypsy, an idolater, and a pagan, she began to entreat with sobs, mercy from the good Christian God, and to pray to our Lady, her hostess.†
Chpt 2.11.1
- Tristan l'Hermite, in despair at extracting anything from the recluse, turned his back on her, and with unspeakable anxiety she beheld him direct his course slowly towards his horse.†
Chpt 2.11.1