I'll send for them, and you can settle your nerves.
Maybe I should go out and get a candy bar to settle my nerves.
"I just use a little every now and then to settle my nerves."
Maybe the men had just gone for a ride to settle their nerves.
But just one to settle his nerves, to help forget this miserable day.
The husband's broad smile, of course, was nothing more than a man trying to settle his wife's nerves.
Hot tea might settle the woman's nerves, if she could be made to drink.
But for now she could settle her nerves and emotions.
The thought of it there did not settle my nerves.
He was right, of course, but it did nothing to settle my nerves as we waited.