And best of all, her soft low voice was like a charm for mental fatigue or overstrung nerves.
It was at this moment more than ever true that her light being was overstrung and that her light head whirled too fast.
This one particular also overstrung young man had shared all her amusements with her and had ended by pleasing her immensely--perhaps to the verge of inspiring a touch of fevered sentiment she had previously never known.
The fact was that the excitement of the seething world about her had overstrung her trivial being and turned her light head until it whirled too fast.
What she saw would not have disturbed her if she had not been overstrung by long anxiety.
He himself was conscious of being overstrungwith the rest of a tormented world.
The whole world seemed a great musical instrument, overstrung and giving out previously unknown harmonies and inharmonies.
Through all the wild chaos of her overstrung nerves she was listening, listening desperately, for the sound of feet outside the door.
An overstrung nervous system may be diagnosed from his writing.
My nerves are so overstrung that I start when I hear a dog barking in the distance, or the watchman's rattle; it seems to me as if somebody were bringing news and trying to get to Aniela.
B] There are two sections of the lower bridge, one for the treble and one for the overstrung bass.
The overstrung bass strings generally stand better than any other, and in most cases you will find the C which is two octaves below middle C to be higher (relatively) than any other C in the piano.
Many old squares have broken plates; generally found near the overstrung bass, or within the first octave of the treble.
Tune the overstrung bass last and your work is finished.
He knew this time that it was not the hallucination of overstrung nerves.
It was that unexpected kindliness that always proves too much for overstrung nerves.
He thought that she was about to faint, that the emotions of the past half hour had been too much for her overstrung nerves.
A dangerous transformation when the brain is overburdened with emotions, when the nerves are overstrung and the heart full to breaking.
In 1853, also, Jonas Chickering combined an iron frame with an overstrung system in square pianos, the instrument having been completed and exhibited after his death.
His overstrung nerves betrayed themselves in a dozen different ways.
Overstrung cerebration, that was it; overstrung cerebration.
If my words were ambiguous, it was because, seeing, as I say, that you were in an overstrung condition, I thought it best to let the whole matter rest until you could look at it calmly and rationally.
Here, at all events, was an explanation to the mystery; but in my case the sudden relaxing of overstrung nerves made me little inclined to join in my companion's laugh.
However much inclined other members of the gang might have been to relieve their overstrungnerves with a laugh, Rodwood's threat was enough to force them into silence.
The former overstrung an iron frame square, the latter overstrung an iron frame grand, the culmination of this special make since of general American and German adoption.
The first overstrung grand pianos seen in London were made by Lichtenthal, of St. Petersburg; not so much for tone as for symmetry of the case; two instruments so made were among the curiosities of the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Hadn't he said so himself: "Marietje, when you feel overstrung .
Nor was he to know that the boy dressed carefully for the ceremony, only to find the ordeal too great for his overstrung emotions.
Do you know," she said, "you and Morris both seem rather overstrung to me.
But Loring's overstrung mood sensed this maternal indulgence, and it infuriated him still further.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overstrung" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apprehensive; excitable; fearful; frightened; irritable; nervous; nervy; panicky; uneasy
