"Overstrung" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to; a few minutes ago I had no intention of saying such things. It means I am rather overstrung, I suppose; but it's ...
— New Grub Street • George Gissing
... in understanding the quick fervor of this new friend; a trifle suspicious, even; being a cautious soul, and somewhat overstrung, perhaps. Her visitor, bright-eyed and eager, went on. "I gave up school teaching and married a fortune. You have given it up to do a more needed work. I think you are wonderful. Now, I know this seems queer to you, ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... the difference between one's inward mood of the evening and that of the morning. The passions which are dominant in the evening, in the morning leave the field free for the contemplative part of the soul. Our whole being, irritated and overstrung by the nervous excitement of the day, arrives in the evening at the culminating point of its human vitality; the same being, tranquilized by the calm of sleep, is in the morning nearer heaven. We should weigh a resolution in ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Marcia's overstrung nerves suddenly dissolved into hysterical laughter. The contrast from the tragic to the ridiculous was too much for her. She laughed until the tears rolled down her cheeks, and then she cried in earnest. Miranda stopped and put her arms about her ...
— Marcia Schuyler • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
... the Poet, "that the overstrung nerves of the century will give way, and that we shall fall into the simple ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill
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