Mom pounced on it immediately, though she had never been the nervous type.

I suppose the gun was there as a matter of insurance, but you can never tell with these nervous types.

Even more nervous types might say there would be global upheaval.

However, I wouldn't recommend it if you're the nervous type.

Well, he's a nervous type, always very much concerned about his health.

Even as a child he hadn't been a nervous type.

That sort of thing could be very alarming to a nervous type.

I said, "I hope some nervous type don't pick him off in the dark."

Why wouldn't you say I was a nervous type?

He was a small, nervous type who worried about preliminary hearings and every other routine hearing.