| 单词 | overstrain |
| 例句 | He said every nerve had been overstrained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Clover warned him sometimes to be careful not to overstrain himself, but Boxer would never listen to her. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I was hungry, overstrained, and often anxious, and it all got worse the longer it went on. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Between Lohan’s flatness and Bowler’s laboring, their coupling is like a gender-reversed equivalent of Anne Hathaway and James Franco co-hosting the Oscars, him overstraining to drag her performance along. TV Weekend: Liz and Dick 2012-11-23T13:00:18Z He has moved the action backward in time and dramatically expanded its scope, replacing modesty, irony and charm with earnest, sometimes overstrained ambition. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z I would give anything to have written his parody of overstrained journalistic writing: “Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.” By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z During her first week speaking in a higher register, Primrose overstrained her voice. What does a woman sound like? Vocal training helps trans women find their voices 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Prosecutors thought he was crazy — “the imaginings of an overstrained mind,” The Times wrote. Columbia U. Haunts of Lucien Carr and the Beats 2012-04-05T20:59:01Z But the attempt to stuff them all into one play, even a long one, overstrains the story. Review: In ‘Greater Clements,’ the Tragedy of a Town that Closed 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, stories of the health sector being overstrained have been evident. China Covid: 'Everyone I know is getting a fever' 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The supply chain problems emerged last spring when demand, especially for consumer goods, overstrained supply networks already discombobulated by the pandemic. U.S. Economy Grew 1.7% in 4th Quarter, Capping a Strong Year 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z When hospital systems get overwhelmed, he said, that’s when the mortality rate increases, and getting the flu vaccine will help prevent overstraining the hospital systems during the pandemic. Coronavirus deaths should drop next week, but flu may cause 'complicated winter,' CDC director says 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z When they get seriously ill, most head for the emergency room of the country’s overstrained hospitals. Donald Trump is the very worst person to handle the coronavirus crisis 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z “The United States will continue to support our neighbors who are overstrained by Venezuelans fleeing the illegitimate Maduro regime and its self-inflicted crisis.” Nicolas Maduro Venezuela military strength discussed by U.S., Colombia 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z I have measured out my life in contrived starters and sublime main courses; in hours spent trying to avoid overstrained adjectives and overthought similes, and not always succeeding. Jay Rayner: my 20 years as a restaurant critic 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z The UN has warned that hospitals in Gaza, already overstrained by the longstanding shortages of medical supplies, electricity and fuel, are struggling to cope with the overwhelming number of casualties. The Gaza strip mourns its dead after protest is met with bullets 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z “If we care about preserving Europe’s inner coherence, then we need to find a solution to the migration problem that guarantees a certain cultural homogeneity and doesn’t overstrain the native population,” he says. How a German river marks cultural divide between east and west 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z At the same time, the editorial said, the state has continued to pressure UC to increase its enrollment, leading to “overcrowded classrooms, housing insecurity and overstrained campus infrastructure” at UC Berkeley. UC regents lift six-year freeze on tuition, approve 2.5% increase beginning this fall 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Kevin Ahlbrand, legislative director for the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police, expressed concern that despite the NRA’s glee, the new law would place undue burdens on already overstrained law enforcement. Armed for 2017: New state gun laws shrink “gun-free zones,” expand access to concealed carry without training or permit 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z To combat such worry and overstrain, Lord Moran reported, Churchill was prone to take solace in whisky and cigars, especially during the darkest days of the second world war. Fit for office? A brief history of leaders' illnesses 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z But researchers are concluding that small-scale mining may offer a more attractive path out of poverty than either farming or moving to already overstrained megacities. In praise of small miners 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The return of commercial flights appears certain to create a surge in travel that would place heavy strain on Cuba's already overstrained tourist infrastructure. US, Cuba on verge of flight deal as Cold War foes mark anniversary of historic detente 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s unclear if those flights would completely replace charters, but they appear certain to create a surge in travel that would place heavy strain on Cuba’s already overstrained tourist infrastructure. U.S. and Cuba Close to Agreement on Restoring Commercial Flights 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z It's unclear if those flights would completely replace charters, but they appear certain to create a surge in travel that would place heavy strain on Cuba's already overstrained tourist infrastructure. U.S., Cuba reach understanding on restoring commercial flights 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The historian Charles A. Beard said that given the toxic level of public controversies in the early 20th century, he "relaxed the tension of the 'moral overstrain.'" City Room: He Skewered Politics and New York, Without Actually Existing 2012-08-29T15:12:47Z A swift criticism of Arthur’s attitude toward the possibility of his mother’s death rose to Sylvia’s mind, but she repressed it, pleading with herself to excuse him because he was ill and overstrained. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The things that overstrain the physique, that try the temper and patience of the housewife, must especially be looked after and something of a better nature substituted for them. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z An overstrained enthusiasm produces a capriciousness in taste, as well as too much indifference. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z In forcing things with cold hands you always run the danger of overstraining, while with a gradual limbering you may safely try the same tasks with impunity. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z I think it was an overstrained feeling of delicacy on Hedwig's part which made her leave her home and father, just to prevent any earlier appeal from that quarter.' Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z When a horse has been overstrained by work the best remedy is a long rest at pasture, and, if it be lame or weak in the limbs, the winter season is most conducive to recovery. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Zanetti remarks that he introduced into the academies of that city a new taste of design for the naked figure, somewhat overstrained, indeed, but of good effect. The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century 2012-02-25T03:00:10.400Z It would, however, be rather an overstrained statement to describe this hunting station as an establishment formed on the Columbia, considering its very great distance from the junction of the Lewis River with the Columbia. The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery 2012-02-22T03:00:27.207Z Indeed, led on by the energetic doctor, they had worked harder, perhaps, than white men should in such a climate, and had a stale overstrained appearance, while they admitted that they felt somewhat slack. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z To turn from the chapter on the Life, Atrocities, and Bloody Death of Black Beard to the chapter on the Lynn Pirate, is a relief to the overstrained sensibilities. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z The first speaker was a nervous, overstrained Irish woman. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Coming too soon to an overcrowded, overstrained and overleveraged metropolis near you. TV review: Dispatches ? Olympic Tickets for Sale; Storyville ? If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front 2012-02-13T23:25:01Z Living side by side with a wealthy rival race, the Negro often overstrains himself in an endeavor to keep well in sight of the white man. Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z Probably he thought he was doing you a good turn, and you've overstrained yourself in trying to cope with duties to which you have not been accustomed. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Because he is said to be capable of sublimity, do not await him with overstrained sensibilities. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Mind you, I do not, while describing it, mean in the least to commend such an affection as hers; it was unreasonable, overstrained. For the Major A Novelette 2012-02-10T03:00:17.550Z Spastic′ity, tendency to spasm.—Spasmodic school, a group of English poets, including P. J. Bailey, Sydney Dobell, and Alexander Smith, marked by overstrained and unnatural sentiment and expression. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z I awoke very early this morning, with a head so confused that I thought my brain had given out, at least from the recent overstrain.... Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z She herself is very much overdone and overworked, and her nerves overstrained. Queen Victoria As I Knew Her 2012-01-22T03:00:23.263Z This is one of those passages which seem to indicate an unhealthy overstrain which may have been the precursor of the final disturbance of 'his power to shape.' The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z She insisted that an overstrained delicacy made me trifle with the man whom I really preferred. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z I tried to soothe her as best I could, but the poor girl's nerves had been badly overstrained, and it was a long time before I could get the upper hand of her hysterical mood. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z Your conscientious economy is excessively touching, but it's a little overstrained. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z When one suffers from headache, he is told that he overstrains the nerves of the eyes, and must relieve this by the use of spectacles. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z The Indian club is also in use in most gymnasia; but the risk of overstraining the body by its unskilful handling makes it less generally popular than the dumb-bell. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The haven they had reached was so poor a protection that all hands were kept bailing, to prevent the overstrained boat from foundering at her anchor. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z Dr Andrew Wilson once quoted a budget of correspondence from ladies who had tried the wheel, all of which was in the same direction, provided that overstrain was avoided. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z And when you overstrain yourself you are assisting in the creation of a new self—if you get what we mean. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z I want it to be clearly understood, at the beginning, that in what I may have to say, I shall stick severely to the truth, without any overstrained regard for my neighbors' feelings. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z He had resigned his editorship of The Tribune immediately after the nomination; he now resumed it cheerfully; but it was soon apparent that his powers had been overstrained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z If I don't call his Berlin simply interesting and have done with it, that's because the very faculty of attention is so overstrained by it as to hurt. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Besides, in his overstrained and exaggerated style, he is guilty of writing bad French; M. Cuvillier-Fleury quotes several striking examples of this. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z If necessary, you must take in still more helpers, Miss Liddon—anything, rather than overstrain yourself and break down. A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z Arrhenius' deductions were later proved to have been overstrained, while Langley's interpretation and even his observations were challenged. Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes 2011-10-28T02:00:24.840Z The Roman's endurance wore through and snapped on a sudden like an overstrained cord. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z It was overstrain, Evie replied lightly, and then on the top of that he'd slipped one night and caught his head on the corner of a fender. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z To avoid overstraining your body, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons recommends that you increase your load by no more than 10 percent a week. Six signs your workout is too tough 2011-10-10T14:38:04Z The increased tension on connective tissue, provided that it is not overstrained, leads to its overgrowth, but only when there is sufficient nourishment. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z Others you had, who oftner have appeared, Whom, for mere impotence, you have cashiered: Such as at first came on with pomp and glory, But, overstraining, soon fell flat before ye. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z She deeply desired, however, that Mrs. Headway’s triumphant career should be checked; such a person had sufficiently abused p. 228a tolerance already so overstrained. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z On Sam being introduced to them, there were many overstrained compliments on his beauty, and what they called his air distingu�. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z It is not well to overstrain prerogative, and to insist on obedience as a sacrifice, where it might be made an attraction, if the reasons of the case are fully set forth. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z Now should this local weakening of the media have an acute origin, instead of a stimulus to growth there is overstrain, and there is, in consequence, not hypertrophy but atrophy. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z But overstrained pain kills itself like a scorpion, it covers the intellect with darkness, and commands the blood to congeal in the veins. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z It must be admitted that a great deal is painful reading, but through all the unmeasured language one feels the labouring, overstrained, noble, human heart, tormented beyond endurance. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z Those effects include not merely such obvious matters as privation and disease, but also obscurer yet highly destructive factors like nervous shock and prolonged overstrain. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z A more important objection is the danger of overstraining, against which of course the working class are wise to exercise a most jealous vigilance. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z More interesting and important are the experiments which seem to show that high tension alone is capable of producing lesions in arteries which in all respects correspond to Adami's strain hypertrophy and overstrain theory. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z At last they burst, as an overstrained chain bursts, and like single links men flew from one another in every direction, howling, shouting, throwing down their weapons, and covering their heads with their hands. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z However, he entirely overstrained himself, and his whole nervous system was completely shattered long before his illness. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z In trying to imitate this Gulliver of bassi he undoubtedly did further injury to his voice, which had already been much overstrained by the hard usage it had received in Mexico. 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 He was always very careful not to overstrain his brain in any way. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z This may be overstrained on my part, but it represents my honest conviction; I was determined to have nothing to do with law. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z The sky was waterlogged and the grey ceiling, overstrained, had sagged and dropped to the level of the chimneys. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Both soul and spirit have overstrained the nervous cords and wasted the body. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z With her, too, it was owing to loss of voice in consequence of overstrain that the change of career was adopted. 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 You've been suffering from overstrain, whether you know it or not, and your work will be all the better for some relaxation. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z But overstrained eyes soon caused pen and ink to be laid aside for a bold attempt at poker-sketching. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z At times it will be hard to persuade them that they have not some serious affection consequent upon some overstrain at athletics. Health Through Will Power 2011-08-18T02:00:20.367Z “It is like a sort of Truce of God thrown into our lives of struggle and overstrain.” The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z During the two years that followed, she caused considerable damage to her voice, partly through overstrain, partly through ignorance of the true principles of voice-emission. 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 The overstrain from which she herself was quite unconsciously suffering made her nervously impatient of the old man's increasing slowness of perception. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z His principal faults consist in elaborating and dwelling on the grotesque and unattractive side of humanity, and in overstraining the pathetic portions of his novels. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z The depletion of energy, the lassitude of overstrained limbs, manifested themselves. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Until that moment she had not made him think that she was indifferent to him, and the idea that such a thing was possible, was too much for his overstrained heart to bear. The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z I have known the spirits of women to snap like the overstrained strings of a harp, as they waited with smiles upon their lips. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z At length on August 2nd, the cable snapped by overstraining, and the end sank to the bottom in two thousand fathoms water, at a distance of one thousand and sixty-four miles from the Irish coast. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z An overstrained tone announces itself on the very first page; an opening full of power—indeed, of genius—but pitched in a key which we feel at once will not, without effort, be maintained. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z If held too tight in the act of leaping, the horse is likely to overstrain himself, and fall. Graceful Riding A Pocket Manual for Equestrians 2011-07-12T02:00:27.770Z The tone, the frequency, were so changed from his last, that his family now wondered they had been so blind before in not perceiving that his very seeming liveliness was unnatural and overstrained. Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters 2011-07-10T02:00:16.790Z She is almost always serious, full of exalted and occasionally overstrained sentiment. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z The brain is not to be overstrained in childhood, but it is to be used. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z As we have said, they are likely to begin in muscles that have been overstrained for any reason, especially when patients are run down. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Uncle felt that he had overstrained a figure of speech. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z "Why this, though an uncommon view of the subject, is, I confess, an ingenious one, Mr. Franklin; but surely 'tis overstrained." The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z Linda glided over the subject with the mere verdict that he was an overstrained weakling, and without special mention of his love for her or of her abhorrence of him. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Oefel reproached himself for his overstrained exertion, and said he knew not how to excuse himself for writing one full hour every morning at the "Grand Sultan." The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z In the other cases, owing to the weight of the body, the muscles are overstrained. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z But he was liable to overstrain, as men of great nervous energy are apt to be, and was consequently forced to allow himself occasional holidays. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z There was, no doubt, something overstrained in the 85 standards which the ladies of that circle enforced. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The days passed in alternations of violent outbreaks of grief and fits of seeming apathy, which I suppose were simply nature's reaction from overstrain and exhaustion. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z Sensitive, weak, overstrained nerves, hysterical conditions and thy hypochondria,--are different baptismal names of my one darling malady. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z "You are speaking, my love, under the influence of an overstrained feeling," answered Mrs Herbert. Amy Herbert 2011-05-20T02:00:31.467Z To have contrived such an elaborate allegory, so welded link by sequent link together, seems an exercise of logical patience to which Blake would hardly have submitted his passionate genius, his overstrained and wayward will. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The first types of his neuroses are due to overstrain of certain territories related with memory, as contrasted with diminished use of the association fibres connecting these. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Well, it seemed to me that it would be quite overstrained to refuse. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z There is a poetic frenzy--"fine frenzy"--but also a humorous, which Sterne had; but only readers of finished taste do not account the highest stretch of the faculty as overstraining. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z Well, my dear, I don't blame your feeling, though it is a little overstrained, perhaps. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 2011-04-26T02:00:25.180Z Conditions are hard enough for the drivers without the fear of suffering the same fate as the injured people they transport to an overstrained hospital. For Misrata ambulances, every run is life or death 2011-04-22T13:10:09Z In spite, therefore, of all that is grotesque and overstrained in his work, he has been rightly placed amongst the great artists.—Bibliography: The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z In the processes of riveting and wire-drawing, the material is purposely strained beyond the elastic limit, whilst the correct working of a spring balance requires that the spring should never be overstrained. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z The patient probably had played the goose, Liverish, listless, yielding to the lure Of overstrain, caught in neglect's sly noose. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:11.953Z The regularity is not unpleasing, because not overstrained. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z If you had sat up for so many nights, and were so worn and overwrought, you would have some sympathy with my overstrained nerves. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z At the same time her overstrained nerves give way, she trembles in her whole frame, and with a tottering movement she passes her hand over her temples. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z The minutes passed like ages; his nerves, overstrained by impatience, threw him into a state of trembling all over. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z Nothing, nothing; she seems to me rather exaggerated,--overstrained. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z Added to this his giant strength could endure all kinds of fatigue, marches, and overstrain. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z Add, too, that he had been overstrained and upset, and—well, there are the excuses and apologies, after all. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z But he explained this violence by overstrained nerves, and withdrew with a last mild, kind word on his lips. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z Powell lived in a state of exalted and, perhaps, overstrained feeling, and attributed his own earnestness to slighter natures. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z Olga is rather overstrained and exaggerated; you cannot imagine what a burden papa left us in the care of her. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z But if the appeal for sympathy is indeed overstrained, then, however successful in its own society and its own social atmosphere, the work of art loses power when offered to another generation. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z He felt the finger clutch on his throat unfasten, as an overstrained necklet. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z Manning, they ought to take a long, hard look in the mirror and think about the real damage they've done to our nation, the world, and not least the overstretched, overstrained U.S. military. Why Bradley Manning is a patriot, not a criminal 2011-02-10T18:30:00Z A certain quietness of aspect and absence of overstrain after architectural effect give the massive pile an air of great genuineness. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z The major bursts into Homeric laughter, in which Zdena, whose overstrained nerves dispose her for tears as well as laughter, joins. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z I am afraid Eric will make life hard for himself and his wife, with his overstrained tenderness. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z "I had overworked my brain, overstrained my faculties, and so forth;" with rest and repose, however, I should get over the attack. Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z He turned, and stood with his hand on the door, and with the action the girl's overstrained nerves gave way. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z His nerves, already overstrained and very much on edge, gave way completely. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z The values of the elastic limits are affected by overstrain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z "Oh, yes, you have my permission," said Maia, highly amused at this overstrained reverence, while Puck eyed, with somewhat critical glances, the stranger whose plaid pantaloons seemed to excite his displeasure. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z I had rather see you stand on a pedestal, and hear you shout, exaggerating your misdeeds, overstraining your cruelty, your vices, your animality: "Yes, we are Barbarians! and then?" Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z It was as if the nerve of curiosity had been blunted in me through overstrain. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z She was in the frame of mind that seeks a grievance, and her nerves were far more overstrained than she realized. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z During a period of rest a test piece recovers its elasticity after overstrain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z This was a time when everybody's nerves were overstrained; when hearts were torn to pieces and imaginations were picturing only horrors. The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure 2011-01-13T03:01:17.050Z She was very much overstrained and needed rest and attention. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z What was it that had overstrained him so? Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z They breathe an exaggerated sentimentality, and show traces of the overstrained reflection frequently observable in later developments of pastoral poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z It urged rich countries to secure the economic recovery, arguing that the resources of poor states were already overstrained by the last two years of the economic crisis, which has hit exports and worker remittances. G8 nations to take stock of development needs 2010-06-25T05:05:00Z And now it seemed to her overstrained nerves that she was tainted with the very coarseness, the vulgarity of the man she hated so much. Capricious Caroline Her overstrained nerves showed in a gusty little fit of passion, which brought a wider smile to Jack Denningham's mocking lips. A Blot on the Scutcheon I must brave Heaven, or die under its exaction of the last pang of an overstrained retribution; death will not come to my prayer, and I am stung to rebellion. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 Once he halted upon the stairs for a minute or two and listened; but he heard nothing, and continued his descent, telling himself that his imagination was wild and overstrained. A Little World His overstrained nerves could endure no more, and he rushed from the study, leaving his guest master of the situation. "Pip" A Romance of Youth It was more probably the result of ascetic fervour and overstrained excitement. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He was also habitually a sufferer from chronic rheumatism in his back and hips, partly constitutional and partly as the result of overstraining the parts, especially in wrestling. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician A familiar illustration is that of chains which are specially liable to succumb to constant overstrain if continued for only a year or two. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Perhaps this was because my nerves were already utterly overstrained and anxious. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune I have already told you, sir," replied the major testily, "that I consider such precaution overstrained and unnecessary. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 I had always considered it a fable that the spark from a single glance could set fire to the heart, so I believed my restlessness to be caused by overstrained nerves. The Dead Lake and Other Tales Good Lord! you haven’t been fool enough to overstrain that ankle– Yes, you have. Into the Primitive The first clash came because Menendez interpreted his jurisdiction as extending to fortifications on land as well as to shipping; which we must regard as extreme if not overstrained. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 The mind was overstrained by intense prayer and spiritual exercises. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. The noise was, I think, more of a shock to the overstrained nerves of his comrades than a dozen pistol-shots. Highway Pirates or, The Secret Place at Coverthorne He was evidently overstrained and was only kept going by stimulants. Springtime and Other Essays It was a poor beast, not groomed properly for some days; at least, it looked poor and overstrained now, though perhaps a good enough animal when fresh. In the Day of Adversity The great defect of Petrarch was his want of strong original conception, which prevented him from throwing off the affected and overstrained manner of the Proven�al troubadours, and of the earlier Italian poets. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 That outlet of the overstrained—a good cry—had come to her relief. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School And, year after year, she continued so, though, after a time, her voice, being overstrained, lost somewhat of its freshness, and the public being satiated, no more crowded the house when she was singing. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Promptly and almost insensibly she identified herself with all her husband’s work, a thing rendered peculiarly valuable from the fact that his eyes had become overstrained, so that he welcomed an amanuensis. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It was always thought a wonder, a "mistake," a piece of overstrained sentiment; and she confessed that she was as little capable of a flight of that sort as Owen himself. The Spoils of Poynton Countess Brinkenstein regarded the queen's resolve that the nurse must be of the common people--a peasant woman, indeed--as overstrained fastidiousness; there could be no harm in referring to princely errors in such terms. On the Heights A Novel His charges and insinuations are greatly overstrained; but it is certain that the army was moldering away at this time in a manner which left the country in a very defenseless condition. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence As Eaton stood staring at the floor, he could hear through the metal partition of the washroom the nervous, almost hysterical weeping of an overstrained girl. The Blind Man's Eyes It is due to overstrain of the nerves. My Diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915 I should say his nerves were overstrained, and he wouldn’t be too pleasant a companion. The Daughters of a Genius The effects of a hot climate were beginning to make themselves felt, he had been overworked, overstrained—natural again; but in this case the remedy lay in his own hands. A Question of Marriage The furniture and decorations, even in these early days of hotel-building in San Francisco, were extravagant and overstrained, and Uncle Billy felt lost and lonely in his strange surroundings. International Short Stories American The result of overstrain, in the midst of such infection, was inevitable. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn He was faint from lack of food and overstrain. Fairfax and His Pride The cord may be severed, and the overstrained bow will spring back to its native and upright position! History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time The coal-whippers’ work—the most wasteful, unscientific, and pernicious expenditure of human muscle ever devised, writes Dr Chambers—overstrains the fibres of the heart, and the organs become diseased. The Night Side of London With its moral and industrial overstrain, it is the burial place of health, as well as youthful ambitions and hopes, for many a young person not accustomed to its high-geared life. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Or, again, if you take the boat scene in "Ninety-Three," between the sailor and count, you agree, at the end, that it is not overstrained. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Nothing is so prone to defeat its own end as the fixed, overstrained attentiveness of intense expectation. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley This accursed liquor is in itself so diuretic, it overstrains the parts of generation, and makes our common people incapable of getting such lusty children as they used to do. Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe Amy's mind had been overstrained in an effort to follow even the small part of Mrs. MacGregor's words that was at all intelligible to her; there was a suggestion of petulance in her reply. The Vision of Elijah Berl One need but return to the American side, and cross to the islands which partly fill the river above the Falls, to obtain rest for his overstrained brain among quieter aspects of nature. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 No people in the world entertain such an arrogant overstrained good opinion of themselves and their country as Spaniards. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 These are false views of life," said I—"overstrained and morbid. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 His somewhat overstrained conscientiousness, coupled with the practically unattainable ideal of finish and form which he set before himself, made him less and less disposed to literary production. Studies in Contemporary Biography As gentlest touch will stay The strong vibrations of a jarring chord, So lay Thy hand upon his heart, and still Each overstraining throb, each pulsing pain. Kept for the Master's Use Just for a little while, while you are getting this knowledge, you must be willing perhaps to overwork; do not overwork, do not overstrain yourself. Silver Links Before Dr. Smith had passed many days in the society of Mr. Gilmour it became clear to the practised eye of the medical man that his colleague had been overstraining his health and strength. James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports Then topgal'n' sail, the spars buckling to overstrain; staysail, spanker—never was canvas crowded on a ship at such a pace; a mighty fear at our hearts that only frenzied action could allay. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Keep your strength for your young wife—you might overstrain yourself on an old witch like me. Ditte: Girl Alive! She spoke tensely, the effect of overstrained nerves revealing itself in her low voice. The Girl in the Mirror I have flaunted these truisms before you in order to exorcise that modern slang of yours which is more false than the overstrained forms of a feudal France. The Kempton-Wace Letters Of overstraining your mind by endeavoring to keep up a constant, fixed state of seriousness and solemnity, and not allowing yourself the relaxation necessary to preserve its healthy tone. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings His falling weight added the last straw to the overstrained floor timbers. Satan and the Comrades Coleridge has not only overstrained the elasticity of his hypothesis, but has also obscured the true interest of art. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century One wonders whether Mr. Zangwill ever really saw a woman in any kind of a gown “with yellow roses at the throat,” or whether it is but the slip of an overstrained fancy. Threads of Grey and Gold You're overstrained and excited and you feel that she might not have died——" "Ah, but I didn't feel that the night she came!" she broke out, "truly I didn't. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon A singular instance of the brutality of the Attorney-General, and of his overstrained duty to the Crown, occurred at the trial of the unfortunate and gallant Essex. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. I have riven my throat with overstraining it to curse thee. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare About the time of his marriage Mr. Longfellow's eyes failed him on account of overstraining them, and one of Mrs. Longfellow's first wifely duties was to furnish eyes for her husband. Home Life of Great Authors How long can the roar and the rush and the throbbing pain continue until that nameless and unknown something snaps like an overstrained fiddle-string and brings relief? The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself Asylum: that was what it was, a refuge, a shelter, a little back-water in the great whirlpool of overstrained, nervous modern life. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon The three women in the drawing-room upstairs, already nervous and overstrained from long suspense, all started when the reverberation of that closing door made itself heard. Brooke's Daughter A Novel She gave a shriek, her overstrained senses found in the features of the Saviour a resemblance to those of Bastide Grammont. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature But still, just when a fellow's off for heaven knows how long, and—and—altogether it does seem a little overstrained. Four Ghost Stories Had he been a less healthy and active boy he might have permanently injured himself from the overstrain of the contest. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga You must know your mother was just such another overstrained little soul, good and dear as she was. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 But in spite of all these causes of pleasure, his letters showed that his old invincible spirit of inward cheerfulness was beginning not infrequently to give way to moods of depression and overstrained feeling. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) The pupil is therefore to be accustomed to a generally uniform industry, which may extend itself at regular intervals without his thereby overstraining himself. Pedagogics as a System And yet, as I turn the leaves, I get occasional glimpses of real thought shining through the overstrained self-consciousness, illuminating my youthful priggishness of demeanour. An Ocean Tramp The plot involves a rather unusual coincidence, yet is probably no more overstrained than that of the average piece of light fiction. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 At this, unfortunately, being a little nervous and overstrained by the long pleading, she laughed. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales Their digestions were never overtaxed, and their soft, unset legs were never overstrained by the extremely bulging stomach which many breeders associate as a matter of course with puppyhood. Finn The Wolfhound No doubt you, as a sportsman, Count, may consider this as overstrained feeling. Through Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow It is a relief after so many pages of overstraining at words, and it shows that Mr. Voldo can be really pleasant, if he will only be simple. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 They did not understand that there was neither mockery nor frivolity in the laugh, that it proceeded involuntarily from the sudden relaxation of overstrained nerves. The Broom-Squire His stage is generally occupied with dignified lords and ladies, professing the most chivalrous sentiments, which are occasionally too high-flown and overstrained to be thoroughly effective, but which are yet uttered with sufficient sincerity. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Her nerves are never overstrained; she is not unduly sensitive; she knows how to economize vital energy. Finn The Wolfhound We all use it in some degree in criticising persons whose states of mind we regard as overstrained. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development With his soldier experience, he knew the symptoms of demoralization from overstrain, and he began now to recognize them in the conduct and countenances of the men. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs We must satisfy ourselves beyond all question that no part has been overstrained. Bridge Disasters in America The Cause and the Remedy His villains want backbone, and his heroes are deficient in simple overmastering passion, or supplement their motives by some overstrained and unnatural crotchet. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Philippa drew her chair closer, and laying a hand on her shoulder she waited, knowing instinctively that the tears would bring healing, and that the overstrained nerves must find relief before words would come. East of the Shadows Exaggerated and overstrained imaginations found insufficient breathing-room in the world, and met on all sides with boundaries to their unlimited demands. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 The little steel-jacketed missiles were deflected by the terribly overstrained magnets of the catapult, but their energy was not destroyed. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 The nervous Flamma family were liable to certain affections of that kind, and Amaryllis feared lest her mother's system had been overstrained by these continual worries. Amaryllis at the Fair A woman who has been placed upon a pinnacle by overstrained devotion, cannot, consistently with her dignity, console herself like an ordinary creature of flesh and blood. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The royalists had somewhat overstrained the complaisance of the authorities. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life The general opinion is, that in playing rackets, or in some other rough exercise, he overstrained himself, and produced a return of a disease to which he had been for some years liable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 His brain was overstrained, it will be said. Bunyan The words were hardly out of her mouth before she herself felt that they were overstrained and more than even this occasion demanded. Is He Popenjoy? Macaulay's well-known but provoking essay is more than usually lavish in overstrained paradoxes. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Basil was gone until the evening, and Diana had time to recover a little from the fatigue of the journey, and in the perfect solitude also from the overstrain of the nerves. Diana All he knew was that everything in the world seemed against him, and, overstrained to the breaking point, he was a mere madman. The Plunderer This second utterance of the name was too much for Ted's overstrained nerves. Audrey Craven She still continued remaking her dresses and haunting remnant counters, sewing on Gay’s work, playing off the same overstrained, underfed Trudy as in the first days at the Graystone apartment. The Gorgeous Girl The studied simplicity, the deliberate archaisms, the overstrained vigour or pathos of these modern ballads do but convince us that the vein is well-nigh worked out. The Balladists Famous Scots Series Diana sipped her tea gratefully; all this novelty was the most welcome thing in the world to her overstrained nerves. Diana They can fairly claim great credit for the abolition of sweat shops, for recognition of fairer hours in industry, reduction of overstrain, employment under more healthful conditions, and many other reforms. Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work The above is no overstrained panegyric; we refer our readers to the work itself, and then fearlessly abandon the matter to their decision. A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain It is not true; I am tired and overstrained. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin Complaint is made, as in England, of too short distances, of the insufficiency of the obstacles, of an overstraining of the pace. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 Minutes passed, long minutes which seemed like hours to the overstrained nerves of the Doctor, while they speeded through the open country. The Crevice And with his words the delicate, overstrained filament in the tiny instrument bulb gave out, and the laboratory was plunged into ultimate blackness.... The Affair of the Brains This was the third time since taking over the mine that tapping had been reported, and both the preceding times had proved to be the result of overstrained imaginations. From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade He was a man still young in body but with mind and nerves like overstrained rubber from which all resilience has gone. Louisiana Lou A Western Story He was lifted up and taken to the captain—a man black in the face from rage and overstrained vocabulary. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories Children, to whom many subjects are new, are often fatigued by these overstrained and misplaced efforts. Practical Education, Volume I Like overstrained cat-gut drawn tauter and tauter until the moment of its snapping is imminent, the tension of that waiting grew more crucial and tortured. The Roof Tree Ah! they none of them know what nerves are—the rack, the tear, to the poor system, that overstrained nerves can give. Frances Kane's Fortune And too much outfit means overstrain on the dogs, slower travel, and unless some of it is discarded or cached, it means all kinds of trouble for the trail mushers. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country She has lived in an overstrained atmosphere with those children. A Modern Cinderella Nor must the schoolmaster's own work be excessive, for nervous overstrain will very readily lead to outbreaks of violence. The Sexual Life of the Child In any case there is no mistaking the air of tension and nervous overstrain which now attends all discussion of Japanese foreign relations. China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference Unless we accept his conduct as the result of a momentary dementia, produced by overstrain, it must remain inexplicable. Somehow Good During the course of this conversation the emperor seemed overstrained and irritable. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers He would agree then that he had been carried away by the impulse of the moment, by the tension of his overstrained nerves, and that a marriage between us would be an absurdity. A Romantic Young Lady Now you have married a young lady who is very intelligent, very pleasing; but she has a delicate nervous system, and it has been overstrained. The Invader A Novel From any one else, this would have been affected and overstrained, but from you—no. The Brothers Karamazov But when the Major overstrains his voice, it misses fire like a costermonger's, and only a falsetto note comes on a high register. Somehow Good Is is only by an overstrained construction of the XIV. and XV. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II I was called in, to find Miss Mildare breaking down from suspense, and the overstrain of inaction. The Dop Doctor Morton says it was all from overstrain after his wound, and that he’ll want a twelvemonth at home to get back his strength.” Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills I fail to fully understand this fanciful and rather overstrained view of the puzzle. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems Then there were those charges and theories of overstrained eyes, diplopia, and defective focussing, to say nothing of other suggestions. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story The last comparison appeared to Borrow to be overstrained. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Doubtless the long overstrain was telling upon him mentally, though physically the man seemed of wrought steel. The Dop Doctor Their strength is overstrained in the cornfield; but what can you do? The Toilers of the Field In youth we may overstrain and disturb our health, but we soon rally; these are storms that quickly clear up. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature The observers were told that they had been overstraining their eyesight so that they 'saw double,' and also that they had been using telescopes not properly focussed. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Rightly or wrongly his contemporaries felt the distrust indicated by his nickname 'Malagrida,' which appears to have been partly suggested by a habit of overstrained compliment. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. That swift unerring judgment of Saxham's had pointed, months ago, to some such mental and physical collapse, as the result of shock, crowning long-continued nervous overstrain. The Dop Doctor There was no possibility of mistaking this for mock-modesty, and though Mabel thought such sensitiveness rather overstrained, she liked him for it notwithstanding. The Giant's Robe In regard to the charter, we have kept it faithfully even when you rather overstrained its meaning. Lorimer of the Northwest Nothing of the kind ever happened to me, before or after, and I can only explain these strange dreams like memories, by ascribing them to overstrain of the nerves. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories There is no trace of the modern heroine, the common woman overstrained, or the idle woman in her megrims, in any Shakespearean play. William Shakespeare I presume that my sister, with overstrained scrupulosity, considered its moral tone to be somewhat open to exception. Old Familiar Faces The elaborate explanations of texts of the Bible, with which the volumes of patristic literature abound, seem fanciful and overstrained to the prosaic modern mind. Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries It is generally recognized by physicians and educators to-day that many children in the schools are being seriously injured through nervous overstrain. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) Not the slightest injury will accrue from the process described, provided due care is taken that there is no overstraining, and the damping is neither excessive nor insufficient. The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. Except for a fitful shot somewhere back across the plain, where an overstrained sentry fired at a shadow, the world slept. Where the Souls of Men are Calling Overwork, overstrain, worry, all produce exhaustion of physical and nervous power. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say The study is very interesting in some respects, but is overstrained in its physiological details and imaginary analysis. Pascal The moment you get beyond the coarser and more commonplace moral maxims, the Decalogues and Poor Richard's Almanacs, you fall into schemes and positions which to the eye of common-sense are fantastic and overstrained. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy It is only your own overstrained nervous system which sends these fantastic nightmares to your brain. The Crack of Doom To Percy's still overstrained nerves Filippo's way of putting the matter suggested a condition on which the meal depended rather than a request. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Delicate breeds of dogs certainly require great care and attention in rearing; but overstrained tenderness is often more dangerous than culpable neglect. Anecdotes of Dogs Suspicion in me is not that bad thing into which your overstrained sense of honour, such as I never saw in any man before, converts it by the meaning you assign to it. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Literally, drive slowly, and you will not overstrain the harness. The Proverbs of Scotland Zarah lay perfectly still for some time, letting her overstrained nerves regain their usual tone. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History "Then the sea air hasn't taught you to recognise that the whole thing came from overstrain." Tongues of Conscience When you had made a sober selection from the facts, such a selection as constituted a truth, and presented it to them, you were more overstrained than ever. The Creators A Comedy This inference seems overstrained; but certainly much greater substantial concession was required of Great Britain than of France. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 At this date it seemed to me that the overstrain of attempting too much, brought upon him by the necessities of his weekly periodical, became first apparent in Dickens. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete The veil of age was falling over the prophet, and the penalties of a weak constitution overstrained. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets In consequence of this overstrain and subsequent breakdown, he has become possessed by a fixed sea-idea, and traces all his wretchedness to this episode of the boy and the picture. Tongues of Conscience True, but our sensitiveness has increased, so that we feel no diminution in our sufferings; prolonged persecution has overstrained our nerves. The Jewish State “I know how overstrained you are, but of course, under the circumstances you will see——” he answered miserably. The Cricket While the ligaments and muscles are still lax, to not undertake any muscular effort that will overtax or overstrain them,—a condition that favors displacement by weakening the support of the womb. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies But the only definite part of them, namely, that Pitt's creations degraded the House of Lords, is obviously overstrained. William Pitt and the Great War That day several complained of a dull aching sensation in the eyeball, as if it had been overstrained, and on the morrow blindness was rapidly coming on. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 The wounded German, overstrained with suffering, waits in terror, but the Russian dies before his hand can bring out what it sought. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship Against these high conceptions, and the overstrained sentiment connected with them, the positive intellect and the mocking temper of France reacted; a literature of satire arose. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Nan had complained of an ache in the muscles of her right arm, and as the trouble almost undoubtedly came from overstrain, Walter had insisted that she take "a day off." Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves The spirit of discipline was as palpably shown amongst these scattered groups of unkempt, overstrained, tired soldiers, as on any "King's Birthday" Review ever held on the Horse Guards Parade. 1914 I do not think that any holder of the Evolution hypothesis would say that I overstate or overstrain it in any way. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 He is not ashamed to employ pathos, but his tragic situations are rarely overstrained and maudlin. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. The experiences of the last few hours had been too much for the poor lad, and overstrained nature would bear no more. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess All of this taxed an already overstrained transportation system. Greener Than You Think They had too many painful duties, he feared, to allow of their permitting themselves such pleasures: but his friends must take care not to overstrain their powers. Deerbrook Her overstrained calmness had at length given way. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols When they were thus suddenly presented to me they seemed endowed with a most attractive simplicity, with a naturalness, with what I must call a wholesomeness; the objections I felt to be overstrained, unreal, morbid. The King's Mirror These women, if they are not happy, and have no children, must either take to folly or to some overstrained religion that makes them think they’ve got all heaven’s work on their shoulders. Romola An examination revealed the fact that the poor eyes were sadly overstrained and would have to have a complete rest for weeks or his eyesight would be permanently injured. Chicken Little Jane She was overstrained by the emotions and events of the past hours. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance She tried to scream, but her overstrained voice was hoarse and husky. Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas The doctor saw that his visitor's nerves were overstrained, and that, unless the tension were relaxed, he would probably end in having a fit of hysteria. The Bishop's Secret No. cxxviii. is an overstrained compliment on a lady playing on the virginals. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles “Instead of a weak, irritable, sickly, overstrained, nervous fellow, who would give me the horrors if I did not know that I can put him right.” Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy Both mind and body being rather overstrained, it filled her with something approaching panic. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance A few strokes sufficed to cut the overstrained ropes, and the mainmast snapped off with a loud report, and the ship slowly righted. The Battle and the Breeze The analogies have been much overstrained that exist between the menstrual epoch of an adolescent girl and the pregnancy of an adult woman. The Education of American Girls August Wilhelm Schlegel speaks slightingly of the work: he says, 'it will hardly move us by its tone of overstrained sensibility, but may well afflict us by the painful impressions which it leaves.' The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works We were none of us veterans, and notwithstanding an assumption of coolness, overstrained and unnatural under the circumstances, our breath came thick and painfully with the intense excitement of the moment. The Island Home And, though he held his peace, Katherine feared for him—feared that the way he elected to walk in was over-strait, and that, though resolution would hold, health might be overstrained. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance There was, no doubt, something overstrained in the standards which the ladies of that circle enforced. Classic French Course in English Some overstrain it, others take needless trouble about the repairs. The Education of American Girls I think she is looking tired—and—and overstrained. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden The girl's nerves were already so overstrained that the horrible idea terrified her; the more, as several seconds elapsed before Madame Patoff answered the question. Paul Patoff Nothing, you will guess, that threatened to overstrain our intelligence, but enough for the moderate excitation of those sympathies which we always concede to heroic villainy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 Above all, the overstrain of function, especially of emotional functions, may lead to that exhaustion which produces the state of neurasthenia. Psychotherapy The brain, as the ruling organ of the body, requires a healthy, rich development; and this can only be secured by regular exercise and training, fully using but not overstraining its powers. The Education of American Girls These are no days for punctilious or overstrained courtesy in dealing with political opponents.... Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893 In the third place, the child voice is immature, and his vocal organs are much more likely to be injured by overstraining. Essentials in Conducting Then was when Slade no doubt felt certain that the overstrained nerves of his victim would give way. Bloom of Cactus It is as if by a mental or physical overstrain, my whole personality has entered into a transition. Psychotherapy They are also beyond the tether of my subject, which I fear I have already overstrained. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 In Nature and Art, her attempts at social satire are superficial and overstrained. A Simple Story If to this were added an abundant and nutritious dietary, good ventilation and pure air, an avoidance of overwork and overstrain, we should soon begin to get the better of this distressing disease. Preventable Diseases I take of the voluptuous delights of my harem as large a dose as an intelligent and refined student of nature ought to require, but without imprudently overstraining the springs of sensation. French and Oriental Love in a Harem This revelation of the full horror of his situation was too much for the overstrained nerves of the poor lad. Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines I suppose," Trent resumed, "you had considered the idea of there being something wrong with his mind—a break-down from overstrain, say. The Woman in Black "Gentlemen, gentlemen, here are the ladies!" cried Stephens, and the angry, overstrained men relapsed into a gloomy silence, pacing up and down, and jerking viciously at their moustaches. A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" It was a natural thing, after so many hours of overstrained excitement; nor were her tears those of unhappiness, yet they seemed, every drop, to burn on her bridegroom's heart. Agatha's Husband A Novel With tremendous energy—because action brought relief to their overstrained feelings—the crew of the ill-fated yacht set to work to haul the boats upon the grounded ice. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole And then you overstrain yourself, or so, And tumble downward like the flying fish Gasping on deck, because you soar too high, Bob, And fall for lack of moisture quite a dry Bob. Don Juan I fancy it may be the result of an overstrained nervous system, but there appears no present cause for that. Rivers of Ice The relief of rapid motion told upon his overstrained condition. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes There was something so absurdly incongruous in these comments that they acted instantly upon my overstrained nerves, and I burst into a laugh, in which the other two immediately joined. The Aztec Treasure-House But a sag had begun to show itself—the relapse that is pretty certain to follow on an extreme and perhaps overstrained endeavor. On the Stairs Digestive failures in strictly temperate persons often arise from an overstrain of the mind. Papers on Health Besides, I wasn't sure my health was not breaking down from overstrain; not only that, I felt it would be right to go; and, anyhow, I just would go—so there. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon The commonplace of the daily routine is a blessed relief after the overstrained excitement of a great catastrophe. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes He was not intimately acquainted with any of the members of the learned societies, but he had a deeply-rooted and perhaps overstrained horror of vivisection. 'That Very Mab' To overstraining the brain trying to lead his class in college, trying to take a prize, or to get ahead of somebody else. Pushing to the Front All this generally springs from overstrain upon the limbs. Papers on Health Occasionally we find some that are manifestly faulty and overstrained. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 And the poor body was suffering, for the overstrained mind was sapping the vigour of all its powers. True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Let us not overstrain our abilities, or we shall do nothing with grace. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources It would be thin and narrow to count all this an overstrain. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 Hoarseness.—This trouble we may consider in three ways:—First, as the effect of overstrain in using the voice; in this case rest must be taken from speaking or other such work. Papers on Health Is right to be handicapped in its battle with wrong by what, after all, seems to me an overstrained if not altogether false sense of justice? The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa She had overstrained her mind with the burden of a multitude of acquirements and accomplishments, which had not, after all, made her truly accomplished. True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best We were expected to believe in a highly developed and overstrained simplicity, it was the resort of a certain number who wanted to realize speedy results among the unintelligent. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets All this, I fancy, might easily have been made plain even to those who thought his action a display of overstrained moral delicacy. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 Quietness rests the overstrained nervous system very much. Papers on Health It was something overstrained and startling and against the instincts of the people. A Short History of England Within their steel-incased quarters every bolt and rivet sounded the overstrain forced upon it. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story We are no longer held by these artificial and overstrained hues, and we find the younger followers offering little or nothing to us save an obvious integrity of purpose. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Is it not certain that unnecessary industrial accidents, sickness due to overwork and early old age due to overstrain, are responsible for another enormous loss? Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement Perhaps some easy science or art is the best exercise of all, when the brain is suffering from overstrain. Papers on Health It was, in no overstrained sense, civilization itself. A Short History of England Miss Ledbury thought it showed promise of great things later on, and, while avoiding overstraining it, she had made Rona practise most assiduously. For the Sake of the School It would scarcely be a wild overstraining of its practical meaning to say that this population is made up of two classes: those who own the country's wealth, and those who do not. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation A competent mother, then, physically speaking, means not only one measurably strong but one sufficiently cared for to prevent overstrain before the birth-hour. The Family and it's Members The muscle swells, but this is primarily due to the overstrain of the nerves in the sudden effort they make to bear a crushing load on the muscle. Papers on Health To add to his troubles, when one day endeavoring to recover himself from a stumble occasioned by his lameness, he overstrained his arm, and broke the bone near the shoulder. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success If very badly marked they denote that in the latter part of life the subject may be disposed to insanity proceeding from a worrying disposition, and often from the overstraining of the mental faculties. Palmistry for All The eulogy seems to be rather overstrained, unless we measure subtlety of thought rather by the complexity and elaboration of its embodiment than by the keenness of the thought itself. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) It is not, however, in the power of the wisest and most unselfish of individuals to so manage the work-power as to insure against premature old age from too great speeding and overstrain. The Family and it's Members He said that, while his eyes were badly overstrained, the seat of the trouble was mental. The Triflers Sleep came to him early, however, and the small, quiet room of the Markham house which had been allotted to him was like a sacred holy of holies to the overstrained nerves. A Son of the Hills Beyond these limits it stunts the body, dulls the brain, overstrains the heart, and spoils the appetite. A Handbook of Health He was forced to admit that; and yet there came upon him again that constant sense of overstrain. Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands On the whole, the evil effects from mental overstrain are more to be feared than from physical overstrain. The Mind and Its Education It must be some chivalrous, overstrained scruple about his poverty which came between poor Nell and her happiness. Mary Gray The church must needs suffer the evil consequence of overstraining the law of God. A History of American Christianity There was, however, something wild and overstrained in her appearance, which made Susanna, who was possessed by astonishment and strange feelings, determine to go to her immediately. Strife and Peace The inky sea of darkness that hemmed her in on every side suggested every sort of ghoulish possibility, and with each pulsation of her overstrained heart her flesh crawled. Scottish Ghost Stories No lover, I fancy, ever found them redundant, overstrained, spoiled by the lavish splendor of their imagery. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Occasionally my helmet would come afoul of a vine or small branch; and then like cathedral bells to my overstrained ears the edge of the helmet would make a little ringing sound. Winning a Cause World War Stories "Stuff and nonsense!" muttered Pix; "you have always such overstrained notions." Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag But to the calmer judgment of later generations this celebrated oration seems turgid and overstrained. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" This was the climax, my overstrained nerves could stand no more, and ere the blow had time to descend, I pitched heavily forward and fell at her feet. Scottish Ghost Stories Hence, in an era of overstrain, poetry is the first of the arts to suffer. The Joyful Heart Reading on moving trains or looking for a long time at moving pictures may overstrain the eye. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science And these things, which are strictly true, if set forth in the contrivances of romance might, or in all likelihood would, be pronounced unnatural or overstrained. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Neville sat thoughtful and silent, gazing on his children with the painful exhaustion of overstrained sensibility. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel All at once Annie Squires, usually stolid, now overstrained, gave way to a wild sobbing. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West This is the reason why, in the present era of overstrain, the poet's art has been so swift to succumb and so slow to recuperate. The Joyful Heart From this follow occupational diseases of overstrain, bad posture, industrial poisons, and a craving for narcotics. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science An enthusiast in the concerns of literature, it is to be feared that he cut short his career by overstrained application. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century The noise had ceased and he decided that the overstrain of the day had worked an hallucination. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 The effect of these hearty assurances of faith in him, and of continued friendship, was such that the little man's overstrained nerves suddenly gave way. At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear The abuses in the former age, arising from overstrained pretensions to piety, had much propagated the spirit of irreligion; and many of the ingenious men of this period lie under the imputation of Deism. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. Some people can not walk upstairs or run across the street without being out of breath, while others will climb the Matterhorn without overstrain. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science The springs of authority he had enforced without overstraining them. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell For a few minutes no one came near them, and Maud knelt there sobbing, for her overstrained feelings would have vent, in spite of her effort to control them. Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War Twice, in dramatic setting, I have seen tobacco intervene to give men a release from overstrained nerves. Golden Lads The neglect of this most important principle usually results in overstraining the vocal cords and throat muscles. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] In general, overstrain of any kind tends to overfatigue. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Overwrought, sir— that's what I'm suffering from—overstrain: not used to this sort of thing.… Foe-Farrell It has been shown, on the other hand, that these effects are primarily due to cumulative residual strains, and that a brief period of rest, by removing the overstrain, removes also the sign of fatigue. Response in the Living and Non-Living The months of overstrained effort and anxiety that had culminated in its violent attack were telling upon him now, in the scarcely less perilous prostration that followed. Faith Gartney's Girlhood She was not sure at the first that her overstrained senses were not playing her tricks; but he repeated his question, and she could no longer disbelieve or misunderstand. The Four Feathers Prevention of Overstrain Methods of preventing or correcting overstrain vary greatly, according to the kinds of overstrain. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science In taking up a new exercise requiring considerable exertion, precautions should be observed to prevent an overstrain of the heart. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Response thus reaches a maximum, but continued stimulation may afterwards produce overstrain, and the subsequent responses may then show a decline. Response in the Living and Non-Living The work of examining and dressing Preston's wounds, however, immediately began; and in the effort to do my part, as usual, I found the best relief for overstrained nerves. Daisy in the Field Mr. Daubeny detracted something from this triumph by the overstrained and perhaps ironic pathos with which he deplored the loss of his right honourable friend's services. Phineas Redux For instance, the increase in diseases of the heart is often due to nervous overstrain combined with either too much or too little physical exertion. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science A sprain, which is an overstrained condition of the ligaments surrounding a joint, frequently requires very careful treatment. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Prolongation of period of recovery by overstrain.—The pair of records given in fig. 61 shows how recovery is delayed, as the effect of overstrain. Response in the Living and Non-Living His death in 1916 was attributed to overstrain caused by the War and his efforts to help the sufferers. Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines He stayed with me over the Sunday; he was tired and overstrained, complained that he felt unable to fix his mind upon anything, and he was in considerable depression about the possibility of war. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother You are overstrained and excited, and it is no time to do an irrevocable thing. August First These connect with neurons that in turn connect with blood vessels and with them act reflexively, when the heart is likely to be overstrained, to cause a dilation of the blood vessels. Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools This affords additional proof of the fact that fatigue is due to overstrain, and that this strain, with its sign of attendant fatigue, disappears with time. Response in the Living and Non-Living The uncanny ceremony eased many an overstrained hour and did for the girl what should have been done in a more normal way. The Place Beyond the Winds As a rule her temper was placid enough, but Archie's defection, after she had given him her best neck-tie for the purpose of binding him to his promise, had overstrained the tension of her nerves. The Miller Of Old Church You have known how from my childhood aspiring thoughts and high desires have warred with inherent disease and overstrained sensitiveness, till the latter became victors. The Last Man I explained it was my fault about the front door being left open—my brain had been a bit overstrained through excessive work—and asked her on no account to blame the servants. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter I have not sprained my wrist; but both my arms and hands are so overstrained that I cannot write a line. Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States Trains came down from Minneapolis, boats came down from Duluth, warehouse after warehouse at Chicago was filled; and overstrained nerves neared the breaking point as the short December days flew by. Calumet "K" Yet his comrades noticed that his nerves seemed overstrained. Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air Their overstrained nerves and worn bodies rendered them very susceptible even to the first breath of autumn. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" Horace, accustomed to his friend's overstrained moods, and understanding the cure for them, turned toward him with a gentle respect which was free from all constraint or apology. Roads from Rome At that moment of Ellen's announcement some vital energy in him suddenly relaxed like overstrained rubber. The Portion of Labor In this way what we call inspiration, that is the performance of the heated mind, perhaps working at its best, perhaps overstraining xxiv itself, and overstating its idea, might really be regulated. On the Sublime It is met with most frequently in the tendo-calcaneus in gouty and rheumatic subjects who have overstrained the tendon, especially during cold and damp weather. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. "The dark has overstrained your nerves—" "I bespeak help of de Englishmen for de sake of God!" Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France She realized that her head was overstrained, her reason failing her. The Debtor A Novel When they reached home, a violent fit of weeping, followed by continuous lassitude, showed that the emotions of the morning had overstrained her nerves. Scenes of Clerical Life Monomania or the being possessed with one idea to the exclusion of others, is a form of overstrained attention, sustained by memory. The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence Then the poor boy, wrung with pain, Weak from nature's overstrain, Faltering, moaned a low complaint; "Spare me, Father, for I faint!" The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside And if our sentiments appear exaggerated, violent, and overstrained, I must point back to their origin. Romance There was about this unnatural metallic laughter something fairly blood-curdling in its disclosure of overstrained emotion. The Debtor A Novel He was upset and overstrained, for Fate had given him plenty of deaths to circumvent as it was, in the ordinary course of business, and this addition was a bit too much. The Way of the Wild A leading tenet of theirs was the distinction between things in our power and things not in our power; and they greatly overstrained the limits of what is in our power. Practical Essays "Clergyman's sore throat" is the result of improper use or overstraining of the voice. Talks on Talking She had overstrained an organ which had not gained its full strength, and it was discovered that her tones were losing their freshness. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens In reality, the girl's nerves were nearer the overstrained point now than they had been before. The Debtor A Novel A very little longer and I believe he would actually have died from sheer overstrain, instead of from kestrel. The Way of the Wild Don't overstrain them, don't put anything in them, don't follow any casual prescription, nor use belladonna to brighten them. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Let them overstrain their brains a little; let them contract their chests, and injure their digestion and their eyesight, by sitting at desks, poring over books. Health and Education Another author tells such a graphic story of a lion's entertaining a hunter, that I must let you hear it also, though I must say that I think he has rather overstrained it. Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits And he was starting forth upon this trip with the purpose in his overstrained, distorted brain of spending his last reserve, and incurring a debt to himself which should never be paid to all eternity. The Debtor A Novel This is simple and good practice, for no beam can fail as long as a method is provided by which to take care of all the stresses without overstraining any part. Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper No. 1169, Volume LXX, Dec. 1910 He himself had more of the student aspect, and an air of lassitude, which he ascribed, as he had been instructed, to overstrain in reading for the recent examinations. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax The number of men in the government who have disappeared from public view is amazing, the number that would like to disappear is still greater—from sheer overstrain. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II Still no sound but one in her ears—the thump-thump of her own overstrained heart. Hetty Wesley Fletcher described an interview with her in terms which sound rather overstrained, not to say irreverent, to English ears; but allowance should be made for the 'effusion' in which foreigners are wont to indulge. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century In truth, both intellect and imagination were being overstrained by the constant succession of new images, new ideas, new thoughts, that presented themselves to her. My Little Lady "I am afraid Burleigh is rather out of sorts—the effect of overstrain, the curse of our time," said Mr. Logger sententiously. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax But she held her own fairly well, while DeWitt, sick and overstrained at the start, was failing rapidly. The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert His overstrained imagination terrified him, and his eyes started from his head. Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster Then suddenly, without warning, probably from overstrain, his memory gave way. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 The work was done, and the overstrained mind, no longer occupied, filled with ghastly fears and fancies. Melchior's Dream and Other Tales The weaker boys are also often separated from the stronger, to prevent that overstraining to which a weak but high-spirited lad is frequently impelled by the emulation of example. Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah In some cases nerves overstrained by hours of inaction gave way, and a few men threw down arms or equipment in a momentary panic, abandoning even their Maxim gun for a time. Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith It is not, I think, surprising that the machinery has been overstrained, and there have been many cases of temporary inconvenience and hardship and discomfort. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? The heart is especially subject to the dangers of overstrain in growing boys. Outdoor Sports and Games These overstrained efforts had, as frequently happens, exhausted the spirits of the men, and stifled that ardor they were intended to kindle. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) In the allotment of exercises our aim is to develop thoroughly the muscles, and to give a regular and general action to all the members, but not to overstrain them. Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah The passion for ease and luxury, and the dread of poverty tend to overstrain the nervous system, and numberless neurotic defectives fall back upon society, and give themselves up to the propagation of their kind. The Fertility of the Unfit I have overstrained your patience—you have startled me. Diane of the Green Van I believe you are working too hard, and we must not overstrain our faculties. The Child of the Dawn The young man appealed to her uncle, who thought her feelings overstrained, but respected her for it nevertheless; and in the warmth of his admiration, he communicated the circumstance to his wife and daughter. Turns of Fortune And Other Tales Neither are such scenes of real misery courted by mankind; the nearest semblances which they can bear being in the sentimentalities of the stage, encumbered as they often are by overstrained fiction and caricature. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827 It might have been thought that she expected this solitude would be necessary to her as an escape from the fright of that reception, to which her overstrained and sick nerves made her a prey. His Excellency the Minister This is the Parisian art world as it really was, with nothing improbable or overstrained in the narrative, save its very first chapter, in which romanticism is certainly allowed full play. His Masterpiece The more we exert our selves, if we do not overstrain our Powers, the greater Readiness and Ability we acquire for future Action. 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation Then her overstrained nerves gave way, and she fainted. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 He chose a story, affecting, romantic, Spanish,—the plot simple, without being naked,—the incidents uncommon, without being overstrained. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 The Lord by this juxtaposition condemns the overstrained and fantastic spiritualism which tramples down earthly wants and condemns desires rooted in our physical nature as sin. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII He was overstrained and he began to see everything through a red mist. The Forest of Swords A Story of Paris and the Marne On the other hand, when centers and tires are held together by springing the former into the latter under pressure, it is possible that a tire of larger diameter might be overstrained. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 For whose use, entertainment, or instruction are all those overstrained and overlabored proceedings in council, in negotiation, and in speeches in Parliament intended? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) It was the voice of overstrained, unendurable emotion, and a horrible voice it was to hear. Bressant Miss Carmichael, who was beginning to find her capacity for amazement overstrained, alone accepted this last incident with apathy. Judith of the Plains Semple, however, dropped out, not caring to overstrain himself as he had some heavy racing next day at another gathering, where a much higher money prize was the allurement. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner It is nothing but a woman's overstrained sense of generosity that prompts you to make such an offer of your self. A Doll's House He gets his twenty or twenty-five thousand if he doesn't die of overstrain, first. Success A Novel In this last sentence the tone of mockery he had assumed was somewhat overstrained; a suspicion of underlying sincerity grated through it. Bressant The young girls and boys seen daily upon our streets with their closely cropped heads, and the young men with their clean-shaven faces, are, year by year, by this fashion, having their hair-forming apparatus overstrained. Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 My muscles were already overstrained from the excessive effort of struggling along in the tenacious mud, like a fly escaping from the edge of spilled molasses. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative It is tempting to overstrain a point in estimating the direct influence of Frederick's example. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots But this calmness in a little while gave way, and her overstrained, but now joyful feelings, poured themselves forth in tears. True Riches Or, Wealth Without Wings But if you think that too painful, too great a strain, I would suggest that you—" "Nothing could overstrain me," said Vivie, "or rather I don't care if anything kills me. Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement An overstrained feeling of honor prevented him in any case from making Agnes his wife, whether the death had come by violence or by natural causes. Red Money |
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