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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Then I saw plainly why God had taken my little children from me. It was that I should have nothing else to attach myself to. No such thing as love and happiness, you understand. I was to be only a master builder nothing else." And the tense strings that give the highest and sweetest notes are most in danger of being overstrung. But there are compensations.
In this state of keen anxiety and overstrung nerves she was compelled to meet almost daily, and be civil to, her mother's friend, the odious George Sherrard. Lady Ranscomb was for ever singing the man's praises, and never weary of expressing her surprise at Hugh's unforgivable behaviour.
The former overstrung an iron frame square, the latter overstrung an iron frame grand, the culmination of this special make since of general American and German adoption. It will be seen that, in the American make, the number of tension bars has not been reduced, but a diagonal support has, to a certain extent, been accepted and adopted.
It was done somehow, though often for a week together we worked all day and most of the night, until there was only an hour or two left before the dawn, and I lay wide awake, too overstrung and fatigued to sleep.
I remember putting it down, it seemed so exactly to coincide with my own views." Mrs. Dabb looked in her pocket-book. "Overstrung cerebration, that was it; overstrung cerebration." "What were you going to say about Miriam?" "A little proposal. My husband wants a clerk. Why not let Andrew take the place, and Miriam be his housekeeper?
This one particular also overstrung young man had shared all her amusements with her and had ended by pleasing her immensely perhaps to the verge of inspiring a touch of fevered sentiment she had previously never known. She told herself that it was the War when she thought of it.
On the moment, laughing retorts, giving as good as she sent, Dick's own laughing eyes had swept over Graham beside her and likewise detected the unusual. The man was overstrung, had been Dick's mental note at the time. But why should he be overstrung? Was there any connection between his overstrungness and the sudden desertion by Paula of the piano?
Elsinore, where the first act takes place, is in front of a large stone water tank, where two gentlemen armed with long-handled hay knives are on guard. All at once a ghost who walks with an overstrung Chickering action and stiff, jerky, Waterbury movement, comes in, wearing a dark mosquito net over his head so that harsh critics can not truly say there are any flies on him, I presume.
Dumb, and now completely overwhelmed, there was nothing further for him now to learn, and he followed his pitiless conductress as blindly as the culprit follows the executioner; while Madame, as cruel as women of overstrung temperaments generally are, did not spare him the slightest detail.
It means I am rather overstrung, I suppose; but it's all true, unfortunately. He rose, and began to run his eye along the shelves nearest to him. 'Well, now I will go, Miss Yule. Marian stood up as he approached. 'It's all very well, he said, smiling, 'for me to encourage my sisters in the hope that they may earn a living; but suppose I can't even do it myself?
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