His nervelessness left him to be replaced by a mad and continual eagerness for action.
"Salammbo"
Gustave Flaubert
She could not pursue her thoughts of nervelessness and sadness any further.
"Dr. Adriaan"
Louis Couperus
She looked back in imagination at that scene with him in London, amazed at her frenzy of power, and again, from that contemplation, amazed at her present nervelessness.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith