"Overstrung" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stooping and caressing her and catching her neck with his fingers in order to bring her cheek the more submissively to his own. His lips were ever encroaching, and his fevered clasp was so incessant and so vibrant with overstrung excitement as to create a sense of repulsion. It was a tyranny, to which Sally listlessly yielded because she had not the spirit to resist. She also knew that resistance would make him ill again; and ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton
... Vince's hand went to his pocket for his knife, as his busy, overstrung brain asked why it was that they had not been searched and their knives ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn
... soldiers, returned to meet the brave Canadian matron to whose patriotic heroism was due the rescue of the little post from an unexpected attack by an overwhelming force. They found her almost fainting from fatigue and the reaction from the overstrung tension of her nerves. Leaping from his horse, Neville adjusted his cloak so as to make a temporary side-saddle, and placed the travel-worn woman thereon. Walking by her side, he held the bridle-rein and carefully guarded the ...
— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow |
