He started, his nerves were terribly overstrainedby now.
This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an overstrained irritable condition, verging on hypochondria.
This youth's language depends for expression on a tone of overstrainedcontempt for experience outside his own.
The abuses in the former age, arising from overstrainedpretensions 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 grief and excitement under which he had labored for several days were beginning to tell heavily upon his overstrained nerves.
Wretched and impatient as she felt, her overstrained mind yielded to the physical weakness that was stealing over her, and she slept soundly for several hours.
And the aspect the said crowd presented to Poppy's overstrained nerves and exalted sensibility was repulsive.
There was something wholesomely kindly and cheerful in the action and expression of the man, which broke upon the overstrained and disturbed musings of the monk like daylight on a ghastly dream.
But he explained this violence by overstrained nerves, and withdrew with a last mild, kind word on his lips.
At the same time heroverstrained nerves give way, she trembles in her whole frame, and with a tottering movement she passes her hand over her temples.
Neville sat thoughtful and silent, gazing on his children with the painful exhaustion of overstrained sensibility.
Charles was pleased with this overstrained compliment, which seems to have been calculated for a raw unintelligent barbarian, unacquainted with the characters of mankind.
Still he clutched by the ladder, and each slight noise that met his overstrained attention added fearfully to the pangs of apprehension that tortured him thus physically and mentally.
Their romantic engagement could not blot out of his mind the memory of the long humiliation she had compelled him to endure, or the subsequent display of overstrained excitement in her which had provoked him to a revulsion of feeling.
In fact this overstrained irritability and moroseness must have been a disease that was gathering in his body: for you know he was attackt four months ago by such a violent nervous fever, that his life was for a long time despaired of.
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.
You know how I dislike crushing the exuberance of your animal spirits; but such a perfectly barbaric noise tortures my poor overstrained nerves.
The brilliant light, the music, the dancers, acted upon her overstrained nerves as a dash of cold water upon a swooning man.
Unquestionably there is something greatly overstrained in this; but the whole story is one of the most signal instances, handed down from the past, of an intense wedded affection triumphant over death, and crowning itself with death.
The extravagant gesture and overstrained language of some bad orator is then described (Fr.
Generally speaking, however, it springs from a too frequent use of tropes, approaching in almost every instance to a catachresis, an anxiety of compression, and a quick and unexpected transition from one overstrained figure to another.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overstrained" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: overdone; overdrawn; overwrought
