| 单词 | highly strung |
| 例句 | But the dog was weak, and highly strung, and suffered a heart attack one bright December morning in the country, leaping from the porch in happy pursuit of a squirrel. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A member of the Non-European Unity Movement, Don had grown up in the diamond-mining area of Kimberley and was a rugged, fearless fellow who was also highly strung. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Danes won a Golden Globe in January for her role as a highly strung but brilliant CIA operator in a first season that was packed with plot twists. "Homeland" TV drama to focus on relationships in 2nd season 2012-07-31T02:05:21Z He is intrigued and amused by Jessica Chastain's brilliant, highly strung intelligence officer: for all the machismo, he has a detached, almost mandarin style. James Gandolfini's film career: much more than just another wiseguy 2013-06-20T17:00:00Z It's got more than a whiff of the Walkmen's The Rat in its highly strung tension and release, with the pair's harmonies on the sky-scraping chorus a thing of wonder. New music: Slow Club ? The Dog 2012-02-09T14:38:00Z Goldblum's highly strung Mel Edison, who spends most of the time railing against dogs and sofa cushions, lacks the hilarity needed to prevent his character from grating. The Prisoner of Second Avenue 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Bird nevertheless impresses both with her dramatic commitment and her highly strung soprano, though she is not alone is supplying a vocal approach just a little too full-on for a venue of this size. Turn of the Screw ? review 2011-07-08T17:29:37Z I am highly strung, neurotic about responsibility and punctuality. Sarah Polley: 'Stories are our way of coping, of creating shape out of mess' 2013-06-22T23:05:32Z “Reuben is highly strung, he screams the place down when he wants something. Albie is more laid back.” ‘I never knew whether I’d take my two premature babies home’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Perhaps I was born highly strung – one of the many delightful euphemisms given to us odd children when experts can't quite work out what's wrong. My Mad Fat Diary: Rae Earl describes her childhood mental health issues 2013-01-21T08:00:02Z I've been there – ignoring Gary Oldman and a room full of highly strung professionals, trying to get a performance out of a cat. Fran?ois Truffaut ? the man who loved actors 2011-02-17T22:23:01Z “New Yorkers are more highly strung, and they want a quick fix,” she said. 3 Top Facialists and What They’re Recommending for Summer Skin 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z But she might just as well be Coldplay's highly strung kid sister; tracks such as Catalyst plot a steady but deeply satisfying course towards stadium-sized climaxes - epic bluster replaced with genuine bite. Kyla La Grange: Ashes – review 2012-07-28T23:05:42Z The highly strung clients are played by guest stars who stop by for an episode. Bajillion Dollar Properties: the home-buying parody show with grand designs 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z He is charming, untrustworthy, energetic, impulsive and so highly strung he steals the film away from Vitti. David Thomson on Alain Delon 2010-08-19T21:57:00Z Hoult certainly has the air of someone who is highly strung. Nicholas Hoult: 'The paparazzi don't care about me' 2013-01-26T23:00:00Z In this highly strung state, he considered Paris foreign, hostile, oppressive, febrile, and “close to death.” Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Aimée Kelly plays the role with a winning blend of caustic humor and narcissistic self-pity: She’s highly strung, manipulative and insecure. ‘Boy Parts’ Review: Onstage, a Dangerous Woman Isn’t Enough 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Under the FMBA, with its direct reporting line to the Kremlin, Star City’s clinic was a highly strung place. Special report: The woman fell from the sky: the pandemic crashes into Russia's space city 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z My husband is, obviously, a liberal, and liberals are pretty highly strung these days. Column: Polls, maps, doomscrolling and 2016 flashbacks — is election anxiety getting to you? 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Patrick Gowers’ highly strung score, meanwhile, its swirling motif applied in generous daubs, gives off the feeling you’re watching a psychological drama that might just lead to an act of violence. Review: Portrait of David Hockney as a young artist in the mesmerizing ‘A Bigger Splash’ 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z “Even though my mum used to call me that when I was a kid. She used to say: ‘He’s theatrical, highly strung.’ This boy’s life – the fabulous return of Boy George 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Neither rescuer had anticipated that the "highly strung" animal may attempt to flee the large enclosure, which currently held three other kangaroos. Window-smashing kangaroo escapes shelter 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Norman was put in a large, state-of-the-art enclosure with other kangaroos but was clearly highly strung and by day two was looking for a way out. 'Psycho' kangaroo leaps to freedom after rescue from Australian home 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z What price similarly modest, highly strung play today? Manchester United v Liverpool: Premier League – live! 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z “The Viennese were so highly strung,” one character here observes, “even symphonies got them agitated.” Mysteries: The Killer in the Crescent City 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “I was so highly strung and so stressed out and of course I would have answered the door because it might have been the police,” he said. Victim's brother: stop using Manchester attack to denounce immigration 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z He passes the racket to me – it is light and not highly strung, which could also be said of the man. Roger Federer: ‘I need the fire, the excitement, the whole rollercoaster’ 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z "Robert's a pretty highly strung individual and he hasn't been playing great of late," he told Australian radio station SEN. Allenby caddie 'sacked' mid-round 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z “Robert’s a pretty highly strung individual and he hasn’t been playing great of late,” Middlemo told Australian radio station SEN. Allenby's caddie walks off mid-round at Canadian Open 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Hype, lest we forget, is linked to slang's "hyper" - excitable, highly strung, over the top. Mullered and 61 other words for beaten at sport 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z But being highly strung at the moment is no excuse. Board to examine Froch 'kill' threat 2013-05-23T12:54:08Z Their advice may surprise the more hard-charging and highly strung among us, but would hardly shock your kindergarten teacher. Best Way to Bounce Back From a Mistake 2012-09-13T19:53:00Z "Ada is an excellent parlourmaid, but she is a nervous, highly strung girl, and I'm quite sure that the mere prospect of entertaining the Grand Duchess...." Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z He had heard no step and had recently felt himself highly strung. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z He bears with stolidity torture that would wring shrieks of agony from one more highly strung.” Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z My father was not like his intimate friends, Charles Dickens, Lord Lytton, and many other men of genius, highly strung, nervous, and imaginative. There is no Death 2012-03-22T02:00:39.257Z If the harrowed wife of the victim was suffering, how much more the sensitive young chatelaine, whose nerves were so highly strung! The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z His nerves, too highly strung, twitched and pulled. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z His pose was strangely alert and highly strung. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z On one special Monday morning in May Peggy got out of bed in that peculiar frame of mind which Father charitably called 'highly strung,' and Nancy broadly defined as 'having black dog on your back.' A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z I was in a very highly strung condition, and my nerves were no doubt greatly wrought upon as the result of the stirring events of the previous few days. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z The men were grim and highly strung, braced to meet the worst. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z An accident such as has just happened upsets the women with their highly strung nerves. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z Both were calm, but he thought Harry was highly strung. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z To a highly strung and supersensitive nature like the writer's the strain must have been terrible. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z It was not very comforting for one so highly strung as the Sailor. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z She was highly strung but calm, though a trace of color crept into her face as she glanced at Harding. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z He admitted he was highly strung and perhaps his imagination cheated him. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z Long enough to strain her already highly strung nerves almost beyond endurance. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z And thus the smallest occasions may have been sufficient to cause vibration in a soul so highly strung as Beethoven's. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z Woman's organisation is normally delicate and sensitive and highly strung, because of its special and complex sex-differentiation. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Something of half terror, an intoxication, a feeling of increased intelligence came over her--her thoughts moved more quickly, were more highly strung. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:19.713Z Jimmy's mouth was firm and she thought him highly strung. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z He was not daunted, and meant to go on, but his nerves were highly strung and his glances suspicious as he tried to pierce the dark. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z It was as different, as their styles were different, from the imperturbability of Braid or again from the tense and highly strung temperament of Taylor. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z The effect of this sentence of hopeless condemnation upon an organisation so highly strung as hers may be readily conceived. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z Though Charles IX. was highly strung and nervous, he did not start, although under the circumstances this apparition had an ominous and grotesque aspect. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z To the lower mind, such a character appears to be too highly strung, too impassioned, romantic, and careless of the solid advantages which secure at least comfort. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z He had been highly strung for several hours, and he held himself responsible for the safety of the girl he loved. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z The chord, too long and too highly strung, gave way, and loudly sobbing she threw herself on her knees by the bed, and buried her face in Joseph's pillows. The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] 2011-07-25T02:00:17.960Z They were sensitive and distrustful of self, with highly strung nerves, and the suddenness of the call to preach the Kingdom of God took away their breath. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z A man of highly strung organization could easily go mad riding on an engine running seventy miles an hour. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z You can see there the emotional strain, the too highly strung system which has abandoned itself to the excesses of religion. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z The quietness and the suspense began to react upon the men's nerves; they felt impatient and highly strung, but they talked as carelessly as they could. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Easily said—far less easily done, especially by a nervous highly strung temperament such as that of the speaker. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Yet even there, when his feelings are most highly strung, the comic touch comes in: ‘There are our young barbarians, all at play.’ The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z And although their host did not impress one as having a highly strung nervous organization, yet his manner during their halt gave them the idea that he was ill at ease. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z Asked about the source of Carlos Zambrano's on-field petulance in an ugly sixth inning Wednesday night in Houston, the ' manager declined to speak for the highly strung veteran. Reasons to be optimistic for Cubs 2011-04-15T00:11:00Z Its nervous system, sensitive and highly strung, is capable of daring effort under excitement, but collapses utterly in any new and strange situation, as if paralysed by apprehensions of the unknown. Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z She had for California that curious compound of hatred and adoration which it inspires in all highly strung people who know it well. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z He struck me as being a very sensitive man, whose nervous pacings during my interview were the result of a highly strung temperament. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z A very highly strung horse from the Flat. Talking Horses: The day's best bets, latest news and the first day of our weekly tipping competition 2011-02-23T11:59:31Z All their anticipations of a highly strung eventful conversation vanished, phrases of the most striking sort went like phantom leaves before a gale. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Well, Barton, who was always a nervous, highly strung sort of creature, went off his head altogether, and was seriously bad for years. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z With his highly strung nerves he was half-hysterical, and so, when forced by kindly Mrs. Coppersley, readily drank half a tumbler of rum slightly diluted with water. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z Owing to her excessive sensibility and highly strung temperament, rehearsals were very trying to her at first, and for this reason her eventual success was in doubt. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z With an athletic organisation he is at the same time as nervous as a highly strung woman. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z The atmosphere of the room was filled with a sudden tremor of nerves becoming too highly strung; the girls looked anxiously at Aunt Constance. Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z The two men settled their differences long ago, but the highly strung Manxman has a good memory and an appetite for revenge. Football has a duty to disarm its human missiles 2010-10-04T23:06:00Z "He was so highly strung and responded to my email by saying that I would need to speak with his lawyer first," that reporter recalls. Facebook's intriguing world revealed 2010-09-11T23:20:00Z He's a bit highly strung and hardly speaks English. Five things we learned from the Premier League this weekend | Simon Burnton and Rob Bagchi 2010-03-22T16:24:00Z His nerves were already highly strung, and there seemed to him to be something ominous in this second meeting with the Sicilian. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 He was fragile, excitable, highly strung, as I felt his poor mother must have been before him. Witching Hill But highly strung spirits, in every great crisis, are aware of vague indefinite apprehensions that are not cowardly but imaginative. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus They drank, they danced, they sang; they were all equally highly strung. Mary He has said—that wise Frenchman—that 'the likeness of events acting upon a highly strung and overwrought mind is likely to produce exactly similar results.' The Riddle of the Night I said to myself, she's a fine, highly strung girl, who needs care and attention, and, above all—rest—rest. John Marsh's Millions But I said to myself that I was nervous, highly strung because of my strange project, that my imagination tricked me. Bye-Ways One could see that a highly strung, nervous American woman would have fared badly with him. Confessions of an Opera Singer She continued in a state of much agitation; her nerves, highly strung, were sharply jarred by the news of the approaching death of Mrs. Saulsbury. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. This sort of controversy keeps the nerves too highly strung. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) I should like to feel the importance of my being highly strung, imaginative, a lover of beauty and susceptible to the charms of women. The New Warden But in spite of their fatigue, they were too highly strung to stay quiet. Northern Diamonds Cleek found young Trent an extremely handsome man of about three-and-thirty; of a highly strung, nervous temperament, and with an irritating habit of running his fingers through his hair when excited. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories That highly strung and bewildered creature was hurrying through the lower town on his way to Bairakli, bearing authentic news for his mistress. Command Even though you are highly strung, I can still follow your argument! German Moonlight This was the barking of certain highly strung hysterical women. Legends & Romances of Brittany Miss Garradice after the fashion of highly strung spinsters suddenly felt disappointed in her leader. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman As a rule, he is more highly strung, more widely educated; he has seen more; his experience of the world is broader; he has more to lose. With the French in France and Salonika He was not so highly strung as Finn at this time. Finn The Wolfhound You're highly strung, of course, but I shouldn't say you were neurotic. Changing Winds A Novel One day's work among the poor of St. Teresa's, Lambeth, is enough to exhaust you, if you are at all sensitive and highly strung, and Audrey had had three days of it. Audrey Craven His Glaciers of the Alps contains some highly strung sentences of delight. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war He had forgotten that Carrie had come to his help, and although he noted, mechanically, that she was highly strung and bearing some strain, he did not dwell on this. Partners of the Out-Trail She had not the Parisian's highly strung temperament and capacity for facile emotion. The Belovéd Vagabond His nerves, though he was not aware of it, were finely woven and highly strung. The Combined Maze Her mother was very highly strung, in any case too much so to be exposed constantly to irritation and sorrow. Too Old for Dolls A Novel On the contrary, prosaic people are far more likely to see things than highly strung imaginative creatures like myself. The Invader A Novel He supposed he was rather highly strung after working hard, because he did not feel sleepy, and lifting his head he looked about. Partners of the Out-Trail "She has always been very highly strung and emotional," he added, as if considering some explanation necessary. Malcolm Sage, Detective But marriage between two idealists so highly strung, and so passionately attached as these two beings were—what would happen? Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange And, meanwhile, what agonies of terror and despair would not that highly strung and gently nurtured girl be suffering! Dick Leslie's Luck A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure To the highly strung imagination of the Athenian the wish became an omen of good. A Victor of Salamis People of average spirits appeared unusually happy; the very highly strung seemed just a little wild; their eyes dancing, their tread lighter, and laughs were heard on the smallest provocation. The Twelfth Hour His highly strung mind drew pictures that more and more stirred their admiration—and horror. Where the Souls of Men are Calling The nerves were highly strung, men gazed about with slight shudders as one is wont to do in the midst of weird ghost stories when someone comes softly, unexpectedly down the darkened stairs. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry President Windell was a highly strung, very excitable little man, well along in years. Over the Line To his highly strung nerves it had seemed like hours. The Fighting Edge Sir James was liable to the irritable changes of mood that would nowadays be called neurotic or highly strung, but was in his young days merely put down as bad temper. The Twelfth Hour That was a piece of pure bravado, perhaps a final test of his own highly strung nerves. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley However, he was tired, and perhaps rather highly strung, and he got up. Brandon of the Engineers We are all so highly strung, so delicately balanced. John the Baptist But Eveley’s nerves were too highly strung this night to brook an idle answer. Eve to the Rescue Her fingers trembled, for her nerves were highly strung; but she managed to unlock the door and draw back the bolts, and, opening it softly, she went out into the silent night. A World of Girls The Story of a School And now Charlotte sank; always nervous and highly strung, the mere dread of what might be to come, laid her prostrate. Emily Brontë His nervous, highly strung, impassioned temperament had broken down at last. Vagabondia 1884 The highly strung, carefully fed, hot-house plant, such as a mamma's darling, hasn't a look in. The Kangaroo Marines No doubt it was real agony for a man as highly strung as he is. The Cricket He certainly had a sense of humour, and now and then could not refrain from some witticism which set the highly strung lads in roars of laughter. Tommy No chord in the highly strung nature of the Spaniard vibrates so readily and so powerfully as that of pride in the retention or recovery of the conquests of his ancestors. William Pitt and the Great War She knew Dolly better than the rest of them did,—knew her highly strung temperament, and feared it, too. Vagabondia 1884 I am too highly strung for this workaday world. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy But Ann encouraged her to persevere, partly because she felt that the highly strung child needed the rest, and partly because it was Ann’s only breathing space in the twenty-four hours. The Cricket Jones was an abstemious man, as a rule, but he had a highly strung nervous system and it had been worked up. The Man Who Lost Himself These changes often overtake men of sensitive, highly strung natures. A List To Starboard 1909 But immediately after he added a “Very highly strung young person indeed,” which unsettled me again. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The life of contemplation and meditation is more suited to my highly strung nature than that of adventure and intrigue. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy Also, foreseeing the termination of Gabriel's unhappy romance, he was profoundly sorry for the young man, knowing well how disastrous would be the effect on one so impressionable and highly strung. The Bishop's Secret So intense was the interest taken in the subject, so highly strung was political feeling, that more than four hundred members were in their places at eight o'clock in the morning. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II Ena was flighty, too; it irritated her to have me close by—highly strung. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Your nerves are too highly strung, and nerves play us strange tricks. The Return Of The Soul 1896 Piney jumped, like the highly strung, alert young animal that he was. Sally of Missouri Certainly the invention helps to speed up our existence; and, convenient as it is, I sometimes am ungrateful enough to wonder whether we should not be a less highly strung and nervous nation without it. Ted and the Telephone Just in the degree that his brain was clearer, his mind more honest, his nerves more highly strung than other men's, just in that degree did he suffer more. The Forbidden Trail What will the offspring of these quivering, twitching, highly strung men and women be like? Impressions of a War Correspondent She was in a highly strung, and, if the expression may be used, an exalted frame of mind. The Dictator A few of the most highly strung minds caught the inspiration of an ideal dream of the regeneration of the world by some patent process of redistribution! Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King He inherited in exaggerated degree his mother's highly strung nervous nature. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments The steps died away, but I fancied that Jess, now highly strung, had gone into hiding, and I went after her. A Window in Thrums It was the worse in his case because he has always been nervous and highly strung from childhood—partly, I think, as the result of his infirmity. The Hand in the Dark It was a perilous enterprise for any one to live with him, most of all for such a woman, delicately bred, nervous, and highly strung. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies Not in a week or a month, not in any way perceptible to those around her, but stealthily, treacherously, and relentlessly the fine constitution was undermined, the highly strung nervous system was shattered. The Petticoat Commando Boer Women in Secret Service Her highly strung temperament found school restrictions irksome, and she was apt to blaze out into odd pranks which in other girls might have met with sterner punishment. The Jolliest School of All Naturally nervous and highly strung, the inquisition confused her terribly, and her embarrassment being construed into guilt, she was threatened with prosecution. Scottish Ghost Stories He was wise enough to know that to a highly strung nature like hers too much self-repression might be dangerous, and he was humane enough to be glad that she had the relief of tears. The Hippodrome And these two now were not mistress and maid, but a pair of highly strung women, and young ones at that. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York One highly strung lad was dangerously near to nervous breakdown. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army It is evident from the bearing of patients, nurses, and students that they are dealing with a less highly strung population than ours. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View He was by this time in a highly strung condition, and he stood trembling lest the pistol should be pointed at him. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke He always made a point of choosing men who were highly strung and impressionable. The Hippodrome But Mrs. Pepperell had all the sensitiveness—for herself and for others—of her race, the British race, highly strung with several centuries of transplantation to an electric climate. Franklin Kane The whole house was in a highly strung, discontented state; it had nothing to work for; it had only failures to look back upon. The Loom of Youth They were a natural sedative for his highly strung temperament. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother He seems to have been highly strung; the very little wine that he drank perceptibly affected him; he gave it up altogether in his campaigns. Abraham Lincoln One thing I hope—that no one will ever call me "highly strung." My War Experiences in Two Continents Some highly strung individual raised a cry of danger. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben It charged home upon Pharaoh without a second's pause, and with an obscene chatter that was unnerving to any one, let alone so highly strung a bag of tricks as a cat. The Way of the Wild As he approached his thirtieth year his delicate and highly strung organization, already undermined by the excesses of his early youth, began to give way. Great Violinists And Pianists It was two o'clock only; but his nerves were too highly strung to suffer him to sleep again, and he lay wondering what the dream could signify. Up in Ardmuirland I wish good old-fashioned bad temper was still the word for highly strung and nervy people. My War Experiences in Two Continents A few, whose nerves were highly strung, were striding up and down laughing demoniacally, waving their arms madly, and gesticulating as if their senses had indeed given way. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben I hadn't known I was nervous, and only found out that I was highly strung by the jump I gave at her first shriek behind me. The Motor Maid Ray Wilson was a nervous, highly strung sort of fellow, almost a girl in his sensitiveness. "Over There" with the Australians She is too highly strung to speak for herself.’ The Disentanglers They had both passed through moments of exalted sentiment, even a little dramatic in their tragedy and renunciation, but circumstance is stronger always than any highly strung emotion of good or evil. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story In my highly strung condition I took this latest expression of Teuton methods to mean that my goods were to be sent home, but that I would have to suffer some dire penalty. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Lucky, lucky cattle who do not know the temperamental ups and downs, the mental lights and shadows, the physical and psychological upheavals, or the intense joys and griefs of the more highly strung goat. Leonie of the Jungle I have ever found that the best scouts, men who must generally work alone in the dark, are those of highly strung nervous temperaments. "Over There" with the Australians He was highly strung nervously, and was really in a state bordering upon hysteria. 'Doc.' Gordon She is highly strung at all times, and these affairs have wrought havoc with her intelligence for the moment. The Spinners Like all highly strung and overwrought mortals, he was often moody, depressed, and, worst of all, a victim to premonitions of his early demise. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon There is something more than nerves and a highly strung temperament in this. Leonie of the Jungle Nerves are queer things, for frequently the man of a nervous, highly strung temperament is the coolest in action. "Over There" with the Australians Nations highly strung, undergoing strenuous emotion, intensely energized by constant conflict with Page 66other nations, have their imagination stimulated to exceptional poetic creativeness. Myths and Legends of China Artists are so different; Mr. Sylvester is more highly strung than Rembrandt, I sometimes think. If Only etc. Daisy possessed in a certain degree Primrose's characteristics, but she was naturally more highly strung and more nervous than her eldest sister. The Palace Beautiful A Story for Girls But now, alone in her own room in the lodging-house, she broke down, as any sensitive, highly strung woman might. The Imaginary Marriage "But she is too thin in my opinion, and she looks to me very highly strung." The Keeper of the Door Her sensitive highly strung nerves permitted these sharp alternations between despondency and hope. The Wings of the Morning Harold, who was every inch a thoroughbred and very highly strung, trembled beneath her, but not with fear. Living Alone To the healthy, the strain of preparing for and enduring an examination is tremendous; to highly strung children it is dangerous. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment He was a delicate man, highly strung, and he had not slept the night before. Red Pottage Some boys are more sensitive to pain than others, particularly boys of a highly strung, delicate, nervous nature. Camping For Boys The solitary confinement and the utter want of occupation told on a nervous, somewhat highly strung temperament; and in the judge's mind superstition began to hold unquestioned sway. Stories of the Border Marches Every eye was strained, and every nerve as highly strung as the gearing of the revolving wheels, the keen glances of the overlookers seeing to it that none paused until the hour of release. Lancashire Idylls (1898) The mental harm a highly strung child does by rearing most fearsome imaginings on small foundations is incalculable, and has led more than one to an asylum. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment Challoner remembered that Bertram had shown timidity in his younger days—they had had some trouble in teaching him to ride—and there was no doubt that his was a highly strung and nervous temperament. The Intriguers She looked very fresh, and although he imagined she was highly strung, her face was calm. The Lure of the North When he was induced to yield on this point the wife came back to herself,—a highly strung, very efficient self. The Nervous Housewife She's very highly strung and quite worships her husband; though, between you and me, I think rather in the slave spirit. The Dweller on the Threshold At the same time he was, like most cultured persons—and especially musicians,—highly strung and excitable. The Lost Stradivarius But the choice cuts remain, and never was the interest or anxiety of the guests more highly strung than at present. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Still more like a brilliant meteor that flashes and is gone was Shelley, the most highly strung of all modern lyrists. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Personally, I am tall and healthy, well built, but sensitive and highly strung. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Berlioz and his wife, two of the most highly strung individuals to be found anywhere, were bound to have plenty of storm and stress in their daily life. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians None knew better than he how close the highly strung unresting brain could press to madness. The Conqueror R. was a man of noble character and generous impulses, but highly strung, irritable, and somewhat intolerant. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Yet the blood was hot and the nerves were highly strung, and life seemed capable of great things in this moody, contemplative morning. Evelyn Innes "That's the worst of these poetic natures," Kettle mused as he, too, got out of the lighter; "they're so highly strung." A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle Such a highly strung, sensitive nature amounts almost to a curse. Deadham Hard Yet, although we may practically ignore the gossiping tongue, if we are naturally sensitive and highly strung we cannot help feeling some sting from the unkind or untrue speech. The King's Cup-Bearer They are very subtle, the women there, with highly strung nerves always in search for new pleasures, fresh sensations, and truly void of any idealism. Without Dogma "Yes; I have never seen any but very highly strung temperaments have that transparent brilliance of expression." My Brilliant Career Roy went off with his usual confidence, but Ken, more highly strung, felt his heart thumping as he crawled along the rough edge of the deep, dark ditch. On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles It is hope come again, the joy of living undreamed of except by such highly strung, nerve-tingling, wild-blooded creatures as these; and in some measure at least it is the escape from Fear. The Sky Line of Spruce Emmeline's highly strung nervous system, it is true, developed a headache when she had been too long in the glare of the sun, but they were few and far between. The Blue Lagoon: a romance She was highly strung and not accustomed to being thwarted. Freckles Probably not; but you've had some more balanced intervening ones, or I should have found you dead with veronal, or some other filthy thing before this, with your highly strung nerves! The Price of Things Each division was suddenly aware of a force moving against it under cover of the night; with nerves so highly strung as to catch at any fear each fancied an enemy in the other. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate With my highly strung nerves, my imagination, which was always evoking something, now saw them advance towards me stretching out their hands. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt He had been a highly strung, imaginative child. Ester Ried Yet Speaking Shakespeare was probably healthy as a young man, but intensely sensitive and highly strung; too finely constituted ever to have been strong. The Man Shakespeare She tried to tell herself that she was foolish, and it was all caused only because she was so highly strung and sensitive now, on account of her state. The Price of Things It was the penalty of a highly strung nature set with exclusive intensity toward certain spiritual ends. Robert Elsmere On the contrary, she was highly strung, unusually sensitive. The Woman with the Fan During his visits to Carlino he had noticed that she was highly strung, but he had never before seen her in such a condition. The Saint He was not only awake, but abnormally awake, with every nerve highly strung, and every sense at the keenest. The Doings of Raffles Haw He is a highly strung and unfortunate fellow; his wife is carrying on with Stavrogin. The Possessed (The Devils) Not I,—I was too highly strung—for me it was ruin. The History of David Grieve But as he was highly strung and sensitive, and everything that happened in the heart of the woman he loved affected him also, Jacqueline's secret uneasiness infected him. Jean-Christophe Journey's End As is so often the case with highly strung natures, he was morbidly sensitive in his self-respect. On Nothing and Kindred Subjects Sufficient for us here to notice that the days of rude, rugged health are passing, and that man is becoming more highly strung, nervous and psychic in his make-up. Within You is the Power They were both high-spirited, in different ways; she was highly strung and so was he—because of his past life mostly. Children of the Bush As might have been expected he was excited and in a rather highly strung nervous state all during that week. Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories It is a method of procedure which proves sometimes a little exasperating to the highly strung, and I watched Mitchell's face anxiously to see how he was taking his first introduction to it. The Clicking of Cuthbert As the sun got lower an apathetic gloom began to replace the anxiety that had kept the Osborns highly strung. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" She was an early riser, being too vivid and highly strung a creature, even at sixty-seven years of age, to give way to sloth. Phantom Fortune, a Novel But this, I think, was the only symptom that came to warn me of highly strung nerves, and it certainly was not sufficiently alarming to destroy my peace of mind. Three More John Silence Stories He is so highly strung, and he loses his head. The Bars of Iron "Oh, yes," assented Stafford; "he is as quiet as a lamb; but he is highly bred and as highly strung." At Love's Cost She had not expected the question and was highly strung. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" Such minds as that of Miss Delafield were quite outside the field of De Chauxville's influence, while that Frenchman had considerable power over highly strung and imaginative natures. The Sowers He was highly strung, and worn by want of sleep and exhausting labor, but he had some notion of all Barbara had borne on Shillito's account. Lister's Great Adventure He was a very highly strung young man. On the Eve "Her nerves are a little highly strung; her grandfather used to laugh just like that— poor dear Richard!" The Happy Adventurers Her nervous system was too highly strung, she was too sensitive, too emotional, too intense. Ideala Her highly strung nervous organization and her softness of fiber make labor more severe and suffering keener. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" Lister saw he tried to be cool, but thought him highly strung. Lister's Great Adventure Comrade Jackson is essentially a Sensitive Plant, highly strung, neurotic. Psmith in the City Imaginatively she had lived that life until it had become strangely familiar to her, as an imagined life can become to a highly strung woman. December Love Those girls are highly organised, highly sensitive; their nerves are highly strung. Spring Days The truly wise commandant of highly strung troops allows them, in seasons of waiting, to hear the sound of their own voices uplifted in song. Life's Handicap Her nerves were too highly strung to note anything surprising in the disappearance of the two visitors. If I Were King I have seen an accomplished young woman of considerable refinement and of a highly strung nervous temperament, string flies with her needle on a piece of thread, and watch complacently their flutterings. The Book of Were-Wolves Maurice was of a highly strung, nervous temperament, and the repeated disasters of the campaign drove him to madness. A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; Such methodical work would calm nerves not often so highly strung. A Sweet Girl Graduate Granting that he was mistaken, would an interference of so direct and unmistakable a character be wise in the present highly strung condition of her nerves? The Mayor's Wife He was as highly strung as a racehorse at the gate. Underground Is it attainable for one like myself, who is sensitive, apprehensive, highly strung, at once confident and timid, alive to impressions, liable to swift changes of mood? The Altar Fire Particularly harmful is the intensity with which an effort to gain physical freedom is made by so many highly strung natures. Power Through Repose Whatever was the cause, her nerves were certainly very highly strung, and only calmed down when the morning was well advanced, and she had exhausted herself in a thousand fond extravagances. The Malady of the Century It was, no doubt, exaggerated sentiment, for he was highly strung, but he felt that he had staked his wife's respect and his future happiness on his work. The Girl from Keller's At present your whole nervous system is highly strung, and responds with an exaggerated vibration to every impression made upon it. The Rosary Their nerves are highly strung, they are emotional to the hysteric degree, and they do everything in the superlative fashion. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 She had humor; she had intellect; she could cook to perfection; and her highly strung temperament made her uncertain, incalculable, variable, capricious, cruel, in a word, enchanting. Man and Superman A thin, nervous, highly strung man, with extreme simplicity of manner and clarity of intelligence, he impressed me as a brain of the highest temper and quality in staff-work. Now It Can Be Told He was asleep, of which she was rather glad, because there was something to be said and she was highly strung. The Girl from Keller's It had not been all plain sailing, for Sara was a highly strung child, with the vivid imagination that is the primary cause of so much that is carelessly designated cowardice. The Hermit of Far End And then he had been nervous, highly strung from overwork. A Spirit in Prison "She always was highly strung," pursued Henry, leaning back in the car as it shot past the church. Howards End Ah, we highly strung literary men do have these curious prejudices. Psmith, Journalist We were both highly strung, and I thought Stephen hard and prejudiced; it seemed ridiculous that he should care what the loafers said. The Girl from Keller's Judge of the effect of all this on inexperienced, highly strung nerves, on men of the world accustomed to the accommodations and amiabilities of universal urbanity. The French Revolution - Volume 1 I felt not at all shy, but so highly strung that my whole nature seemed to throb with excitement. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments He was altogether cold at heart, and yet highly strung with apprehension, as he was shown into the blue drawing-room. The Man He was highly strung, frightfully conceited, very susceptible, and even capricious. Virgin Soil He feared that the effect would be tremendous upon nerves so highly strung and sensitive as those of Andre. Caught in the Net Believe me, a highly strung brain such as yours demands occasional relaxation from the strain of domestic surroundings. Three Men on the Bummel But Armand was a noble-minded man, and with the true sporting instinct in him, despite the fact that he was a creature of nerves, highly strung and imaginative. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel It was none the less a nervous and highly strung household that presently went to bed, and no woman slept without another woman to keep her company. The Grey Room But immediately after he added a “Very highly strung young person indeed,” which unsettled me again. Chance A Tale in Two Parts My nerves," said Bonaparte, suddenly growing faint, "always delicate—highly strung—are broken—broken! The Story of an African Farm, a novel But Rita was in too highly strung a condition to observe this fact, or indeed to observe anything. Dope The effect of such an interview upon an imaginative, highly strung temperament, could be well imagined. Fire-Tongue You're highly strung and nervy, and a poet and all that sort of thing. The Grey Room |
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