"I was chronically in a terribly nervous state," he wrote.
Then he noticed that the girl was terribly nervous.
She had been terribly nervous at being left to hold fort alone.
It wasn't fear that kept him awake, although he admitted he was terribly nervous about the dive.
"Everyone is terribly nervous," said a veteran Bazaar editor who insisted on anonymity.
"You're making me terribly nervous, dear," she added, addressing the human.
Waiting at a set of lights, it occurred to me that London must be terribly nervous, wanting to send in a reserve.
John told me later that they were terribly nervous and didn't sing well.
I felt terribly nervous: despite the way he had treated me I still loved John.
I'm terribly nervous because I have no idea what's going to happen.