From Montana State University's 1957 yearbook.

"I'm not nervous."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1900.

"The nervously fussy bridegroom."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

Nervous to my fingertips.  From Together, 1962.

"Weak, tired, nervous."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1896.

From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.

"Do you need help with your nerves?"  From The War Cry, 1969.

"Save wear and tear on your fingernails!"  From The Film Daily, 1927.

The littlest things upset the nerves.  From Together, 1962.

Reblog if you're "narvous," too.  From Together, 1972.

From Photoplay, 1932.

From The Film Daily, 1926.  Speaking of surprising cocktail recipes, see Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.

From The Film Daily, 1926.

From The Film Daily, 1926.

"Don't be nervous."  From an ad for Carter's Little Nerve Pills, c. 1890.

We're delighted that acclaimed author Gary Barwin directed our post to his novel writing class at Mohawk College as a writing prompt.  He explains the technique here, and he also shares his own poem prompted by the image.