nervous vs white-knuckled

nervous

adj
  • Affecting the nerves or nervous system. 

  • Easily agitated or alarmed; edgy, on edge. 

  • Apprehensive, anxious, hesitant, worried. 

  • Supplied with nerves; innervated. 

white-knuckled

How often have the words nervous and white-knuckled occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )