nerve-stretching

He watched the clear black stream of coffee, strong, hot, nerve-stretching, pour into his cup.

Excerpt: Engaged to Die by Carolyn Hart 2003

The inaction, the nerve-stretching tension, made almost unbearable by the thundery heat and the sweating uncertainty of that long vigil, suddenly snapped, in a wild shout from both sides of the field.

The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

There was nerve-stretching delay, for it had to be routed over land-wire to Kansas City, and some chief operator had to be convinced that she should commandeer a trunk line that was in commercial use.

The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein Heinlein, Robert A. 1966

He was being caught up in the nerve-stretching excitement of the game.

Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg

They had been in it for three days -- three strenuous nights and days of marching, of fighting, of suffering under heavy shell-fire, of insufficient and broken sleep, of irregular and unpalatable rations, of short commons of water, of nerve-stretching excitement and suspense, all the inevitable discomforts and hardships that in the best organised of armies must be the part of any hard-fought action.

Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

We had a very obstinate case of Bell's paralysis in the wards, and had tried it with every conceivable thing, blistering, tonics, nerve-stretching, galvanism, needles, but all without result.

Round the Red Lamp Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1894

We had a very obstinate case of Bell's paralysis in the wards, and had tried it with every conceivable thing, blistering, tonics, nerve-stretching, galvanism, needles, but all without result.

Round the Red Lamp 1894

We had a very obstinate case of Bell's paralysis in the wards, and had tried it with every conceivable thing, blistering, tonics, nerve-stretching, galvanism, needles, but all without result.

Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

It was absorbing, exciting, exasperating, nerve-stretching, and finally it grew to be tragic.

The Toys of Peace, and other papers 1870-1916 Saki 1893

"In 1984 so many people were in 'bands' OR at home with personal computers that the motorways never got fixed - what was once a pleasure is now a nerve-stretching Exhaustion.

FallNet - the punk foot of nose 1998