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She stood outside nerving herself for the ordeal, knowing her desk would be the only one without flowers.

It was obvious that the hesitation was about nerving himself to dive in.

He lapsed into thought for some minutes, and seemed to be nerving himself to speak.

Prissy stood nerving herself to speak the words which were in her heart.

There were Aldermen Minwegen and Alderman Badenoch, and besides them scores of men and women anxiously looking and looking, and nerving themselves to fear the worst.