I could not tell whether it were Mr. Thorold; I cannot tell what I saw; only my nerves were unstrung in a moment, and for the rest of that night I tossed with impatient pain.
Do go out and take a walk; you want fresh air; or yesterday has unstrung your nerves.
When the pudding had been served and partaken of by Asshlin, Clodagh at last pushed back her chair, and with a curiously unstrungmovement walked across the room to the fireplace.
With the same unstrung haste she turned it about between her fingers, halting with new apprehension, as she saw that its flap bore an elaborate black coronet and monogram.
But the luckless fifty, already unstrung by the worry of the last forty-eight hours, fed on salt sea air, and it was not until sundown that one of the British came to ask what should be done.
The archer, as he said this, unstrung his bow, and carefully wrapped it once more in his cloak.
Saying this, the man stooped and lifted from the ground a cloak which he unfolded drawing from cover an unstrung bow somewhat longer than himself.
The thought of how unhappy and unstrung he was came to him now with an insistent pathos that brought tears to his eyes.
But I apply the term unstrung to a man when he is rather under the pressure of feelings than under the pressure of conceptions.
It was advanced that soft beauty is for an unstrung mind, and the energetic beauty for the tightly strung mind.
I brought the bow up from the cellar and hid it unstrung in the Curator's closet, more from idle impulse I fondly thought, than from any definite purpose.
You saw that the only bow the place contained was hanging high and unstrung upon the wall, and you are witness to this woman's irresponsible condition of mind.
Her brain was whirling; James himself was agitated and unstrung by the vehemence of feeling, the nerve storm, that he had just passed through.
You are unstrung by the wanton insults of that woman!
So, with bows unstrung and quivers swinging at their sides, they advanced upon a low hill.
Twice he had slipped the arrow in his belt, had unstrung his bow to take up the task of dogged tracking.
A lover, being in a highly nervous state because of his emotion, is always more or less unstrung and unable to form a sound judgment or behave rationally.
They were quite unstrung by what had occurred, this combat between the living and the dead.
Reluctantly Demo unstrung his bow, placed it on the ground.
The arrow flew, and without glancing at the prey he unstrung his bow.
His laughter and his talk sung about her and dispersed the fiction; he was the very sea-wind for bracing unstrung nerves.
With averted face I seized the pen and tried to sign my name to one of the slips, but so fearfully were my nerves unstrung that the pen fell twice from my hand to the floor.
When he mentioned their dead boy she had winced as though in bodily pain, but when he accused her of heartlessness towards his memory, she had grown so unstrung that she could scarcely contain herself.
Fritzing, unstrung man, received a shock so awful that he obeyed by falling off.
But away among the hollow ships his comrade, a mightier far, even I, was left behind, who now have unstrung thy knees.
Now of the more part had impetuous Ares unstrung the knees, and he who was yet left and guarded city and men, him slewest thou but now as he fought for his country, even Hector.
Then wide-ruling Agamemnon caught the spear with his hand and drew it toward him furiously, like a lion, and snatched it out of the hand of Iphidamas, and smote his neck with the sword, and unstrung his limbs.
After the lightning, the rain poured so heavily that it penetrated the branches, and he unstrung his bow and placed the string in his pocket, that it might not become wet.
While the terrible bow was bent they had followed him, tracking his footsteps; the moment he unstrung the bow, they rushed out.
I felt my way to a chair, and for a time sat in a trembling silence, shaken and unstrung by terror the most unnerving, if of the vaguest nature.
My dear Julian, you are unstrungby the events of the night.
You are quiteunstrung to-night, Julian," Valentine said.
Well I knew it was only driftwood, the gnarled trunk of uprooted tree made sport with by mad waves, yet more than once I shrank backward, my unstrung nerves tingling, as such shapeless, uncanny thing was hurled past like an arrow.
By the time my guard ended I was so thoroughly unstrung that each flitting glimpse of deeper shadow tempted me to fire.
