nervous
adjective
highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive.
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Her strong white hand out from its immaculate linen cuff lay unnervously on the glass top of his desk, but the fingers now began to lift in rotation.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst