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Updated: May 11, 2025
Even then, with my heart high-strung with hope and courage, had I known the truth, I should have abandoned my friends, the voyage, and Europe, and returned in the pilot's boat, to find something more precious than all the continents and countries of the globe, in the love of that heart which I was carelessly flinging away." Here Westwood took breath. The sun was now almost set.
For Peter Bellair, high-strung, imaginative, as he will ever be, will worship the strong, kindly, simple man he believes to be his father, but to that dear father's friend he will only yield the careless affection born of gratitude for much kindness.
Another squad brought wood and water. The camp prepared for dinner. It was a happy, noisy, high-strung meal. "Clean camp for the contests," Mr. Wall ordered next. Empty cans and refuse went flying into the fire, to be raked out later and buried. Presently the last sign of litter was gone. The scouts waited expectantly. "Telegraphy first," said the Scoutmaster.
She was not riding an Indian pony, but a crazed, high-strung horse. As they flew, she sitting superbly and tugging at the bridle, the party coming from the railway station entered the great gate, accompanied by Richard and Marion. In a moment they sighted this wild pair bearing down upon them with a terrible swiftness. As Marion recognised Lali she turned pale and cried out, rising in her seat.
She was a high-strung child, too strong and healthy to be actually nervous, but with every faculty always at its fullest not only in active working order but always actively at work an admirable subject therefore for the malevolence of an enemy whose constant proximity offered him endless opportunity. Much of his boyish persecution never reached the ears of the higher powers.
"And not Uncle Calvin?" "No, he'd promised not to. A girl who thought she was high-strung, excited, and mad, made him promise not to." "Is that the way he described me?" Cousin Jacob pointed an emphasizing finger. "She's thinking it again. No, he didn't describe you in just those words.
I consulted specialists and all the satisfaction I had was that she was of a peculiarly high-strung nature and that in certain phases of melancholia, where there is no complete mental and physical breakdown, the patient turns on the one whom she would hold nearest and dearest if she were normal.
At 10.30 only four officers remained fit for action. All were lieutenants. The ranking one of these was Niven, in command after Gault was wounded at 7 a.m. We have all met the Niven type anywhere from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Circle, the high-strung, wiry type who moves about too fast to carry any loose flesh and accumulates none because he does move about so fast.
'It's a good joke on you, he says, 'for the little woman got it on the third trial. 'Got what? I wanted to know. 'Got that solitaire, he yells. 'And it's a good joke on you, all right, because now you owe her the thousand dollars; and I hate to bother you, but you know how some women are that have a delicate, high-strung organization.
At this time the old Spanish city was a bundle of high-strung nerves, and certain parts of it were calculated to furnish any and all kinds of excitement except revival meetings and church fairs. Hopalong straddled a lively nerve before he had been in the city an hour.
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