Adjective, : a nervy thing to say; a nervy trick to pull. ,the nervy feats of the mountaineers. ,a hard, nervy physique.    From Dictionary.com. 

By the time Mary came in to him, he was nervily a-shake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way Home] Reference

They turned off a humming fridge in the corner of the room, and readied things, whilst I made a few nervily comical smalltalky comments about this-and-that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference

"Is there only one -- bedroom?"'she asked nervily, and he raised his eyebrows and looked down at her in the slightly amused yet domineering way she was getting used to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barefoot Bride]

Indeed, Chase nervily inserted his David Lynch moment early in the pilot script: Standing behind his home, Tony is beguiled by some ducks that have landed in his swimming pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [An American Family] Reference

These words tumble out of her, softly, speedily, nervily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

"He's signalling us," said Hen, waving back; and she nervily added.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference

One woman, in a cardigan and too much rouge, hugs herself nervily in front of a grand hotel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

“Gently does it — gently,” Mr Knapp whispered as the two amateurs climbed somewhat nervily over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystery Mile]

Chauvelin felt as if he were choking; his slender fingers worked nervily around his cravat; beads of perspiration trickled unheeded down his pallid forehead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel] Reference

Time stood still at Old Trafford as Owen advanced but the ensuing miss - Owen snatching nervily where in days past he would have skipped past Joe Hart - was agonising.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

A tiny launch, pulling heroically at a huge tow-barge, attempted to pass between; but the boatman shot nervily across her bow, and just as he was clear, unfortunately, caught a crab.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Snows] Reference

New Statesman, as the object of Jemima Khan's tender condescension, hypocrisy could be the single personal attribute the nervily floundering Clegg shares with more successful statesmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Had his captain been less conservative with his slip cordon he had three catching instead of four, he might have added Ponting for a duck as he nervily jabbed a lifter through the vacancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Reitman nervily opted to give those roles to non-actors who had recently been terminated in real life, asking them to say what they'd said -- or what they wished they'd said -- when the ax fell.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

She threw down her modelling tools with a fretful gesture and then nervily began to destroy her morning's work, patting the clay aimlessly here and there until once more it became a shapeless mass.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Unto Caesar"] Reference

He spun round nervily to find himself confronted by a venerable and wicked-looking jackdaw, who balanced himself sedately on the high back of a chair and regarded the visitor, his head cocked on one side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystery Mile]

I remember, a few years ago, watching Facing the Truth, the series of televised reconciliatory meetings from the North facilitated by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and being nervily agog and somewhat uneasy at witnessing, from the neutral comfort of my armchair, the coming together of killers and the families of their victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Chronicle] Reference

The thought made her blood curdle, and she said nervily, "It's -- funny -- this being our wedding night, I mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barefoot Bride]

Mother’s Milk starts, nervily, with what I suppose is called a “birth memory” — in this case, that of Robert, Patrick’s older son, recalling his first experience of wrenching separation from his mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Satirist���s Keen Talent Targets Motherhood Gone Badly Wrong] Reference

Ralph nervily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference