It stilled his nerves and helped him focus.
The defeats undergone by their outpost detachment had profoundly affected the nerves of the troops, and on the afternoon of the 11th, on the false alarm of a French approach, a panic broke out in the streets of Jena, and it took all the energy of Hohenlohe and his staff to restore order.
She took a deep breath to calm her nerves and pushed open the door to the study, already knowing who was inside.
He did call her, nerves plaguing him again.
She was a bundle of nerves.