stage-fever

He advised her to drop the concert idea and dwell wholly upon the possibility of opera as a lure: only the dramatic form and setting could compete successfully in a case of stage-fever like that.

Elsie Marley, Honey Joslyn Gray

But the stage-fever was in his blood, and after a short retirement, we find him, in 1771, investing a part of his wife's fortune in a share in the Crow Street

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

And without pausing Alice rippled on, ` ` You ought to have seen me when I had the stage-fever!

Alice Adams 1921

But the stage-fever was in his blood, and after a short retirement, we find him, in 1771, investing a part of his wife's fortune in a share in the Crow Street Theatre,

Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

As for the minor parts, the gentlemen who personated them gave a capital rendering of supers suffering from stage-fever.

My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke Maurice Brazil Prendergast 1898

It is a curious thing, but true, that our herd-boys and others were sometimes struck with the stage-fever.

Auld Licht Idylls 1898

It is a curious thing, but true, that our herd-boys and others were sometimes struck with the stage-fever.

Auld Licht Idyls 1898

Charles take a glass to Evelyn, who was shivering with a sharp attack of stage-fever in an arm-chair, looking over her part.

The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers Mary Cholmondeley 1892

Alice rippled on, "You ought to have seen ME when I had the stage-fever!

Alice Adams Booth Tarkington 1907