over-strained

His over-strained nervous system is often apt, in the end, to become disordered or to collapse entirely.36

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

His over-strained nervous system is often apt, in the end, to become disordered or to collapse entirely.36

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

They condemn the notion as over-strained and morose.

Cardinal John Henry Newman on a liberal view of religion Suzanne 2009

I had expected everything to be big, bad, and bellicose; what I found fit better with what we already know about the realities of an over-bloated, over-stressed, over-strained Pentagon.

Nick Turse: Eco-Explosives, a Bleeding BEAR, and the Armani-Clad Super Soldier 2009

Delvile, but appear marks irrefragable that his charge in his former conversation was rather mild than over-strained, and that the connection he had mentioned, for whatever motives denied, was incontestably formed.

Cecilia 2008

She laid down her head, and her sight became dim; a convulsive shivering, from feelings over-strained, and nerves dreadfully shattered, seized her; she sighed short and quick, and thought her prayer already accomplishing; but the delusion soon ceased; she found life still in its vigour, though bereft of its joy; and death no nearer to her frame, for being called upon by her wishes.

Camilla 2008

Canalis, by nature over-strained and artificial, could not change his form; in fact, he had had time to grow stiff in the mould into which the duchess had poured him; moreover, he was thoroughly Parisian, or, if you prefer it, truly

Modeste Mignon 2007

Sudden joy after despair had touched an over-strained heart too smartly.

Two on a Tower 2006

He began his piece by lamenting the great number of unmarried members of society, writing of the "over-strained, atrophied women doomed to live out their lives unmated and deprived of their rightful inheritance [to give birth]."

Dr. Kinsey's Revolution 2004

He began his piece by lamenting the great number of unmarried members of society, writing of the "over-strained, atrophied women doomed to live out their lives unmated and deprived of their rightful inheritance [to give birth]."

Dr. Kinsey's Revolution 2004