"Overstrung" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... separation, of isolation. This monotonous life without affection is good for some, and detestable for others. Young people have often hearts more sensitive than one supposes, and by shutting them up thus too soon, far from those they love, we may develop to an excessive extent a sensibility which is of an overstrung kind, and which becomes ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant
... my heredity the transmission comes chiefly from my mother, who is now 58 years old. Although her life has been blameless in every particular since her youthful indiscretion, she has never got over it. I feel in my character a reflection of her overstrung condition during pregnancy. ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... Vince's hand went to his pocket for his knife, as his busy, overstrung brain asked why it was that they had not been searched ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn
... hour drew near, that his physician was compelled to bid him calm his transports, because in so excited a state he could not die. A strange unnatural energy was imparted to his muscular frame by his nerves overstrung with triumph. But brethren, it fosters a dangerous feeling to take cases like those as precedents. It leads to that most terrible of all unrealities—the acting of a death-bed scene. A Christian conqueror ...
— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson
... distress and discouragement. The thought of "What would St. Ursula say?" led him—not always, but far more often than his correspondents knew—to burn the letter of sharp retort upon stupidity and impertinence, and to force the wearied brain and overstrung nerves into patience and a kindly answer. And later on, the playful credence which he accorded to the myth deepened into a renewed sense of the possibility of spiritual realities, when he learnt to look, with those ...
— The Life of John Ruskin • W. G. Collingwood |
