But the high-strung expectations were not fulfilled. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
(Maybe you feel like a high-strung mess?) "Hawaii Five-0". From Wordnik.com. [Fall 2010 TV season preview] Reference
Ted Carter drove the players with a high-strung, nervous vim. From Wordnik.com. [Don Strong, Patrol Leader] Reference
She always had trouble sleeping and was tense and high-strung. From Wordnik.com. [Leap Of Faith] Reference
As chorus'd to the high-strung harp his words of mightier song. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Swimming is good, particularly for nervous, high-strung persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
B. Wright (+, -) Nostalgia for high-strung ex-aide, now lobbyist. From Wordnik.com. [Fobs Edition] Reference
The music consists of a high-strung violin and a species of guitar. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
He was just the man her impulsive, high-strung nature could accept as. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
His high-strung nervous system would account for many of his peculiarities. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Ruskin's temper was always romantically high-strung, excitable, and irritable. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
His voice is campy and high-strung one minute, smoke-wrecked and gruff the next. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Coming] Reference
The high-strung gaiety, the drinking, the overtranking, the relaxation of mores. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
Once when riding a fine and high-strung horse a bear suddenly appeared in front. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
I think when I get a little high-strung or tired my emotions well up inside of me. From Wordnik.com. [George W. Wins The 'Phony War'] Reference
(Maybe you feel like a high-strung mess?) "Hawaii Five-0": Premieres Monday, 10 p.m. From Wordnik.com. [As the network onslaught begins, what if the TV critic picked out shows just for you?] Reference
But for most of his childhood, Marcus, a cheerful, high-strung boy, hated the confinement. From Wordnik.com. [Stuck In Solitary, Or, Still Life With Mom] Reference
I found this boy to be extremely high-strung and of a nervous temperament, easily excited. From Wordnik.com. [Stammering, Its Cause and Cure] Reference
And Don, who had been as high-strung as any of the others, suddenly became sober and grave. From Wordnik.com. [Don Strong, Patrol Leader] Reference
In her present high-strung condition, her apprehension made her a little faint for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
He is one of those high-strung bantam roosters who can strut sitting down and can't sit still. From Wordnik.com. [The Phillies' Mr. Start-Me-Up] Reference
This self-mastery the high-strung, ardent spirit must learn, in order to become really strong. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
When I got her from a colleague, she was exceedingly ill, neglected, untrained and high-strung. From Wordnik.com. [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Leading With Love: Kid Whispering, Dogs and Verbal First Aid] Reference
She'd end up denouncing this wide-eyed little buggy faster than you can say "high-strung Chihuahua.". From Wordnik.com. [Personal Picks: Small, economical cars] Reference
Mrs. Gaunt's face was pale, and sad, and stern, -- a monument of deep suffering and high-strung resolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
He values the intellectual rapport he has with his Ivy League chums, yet they're bafflingly high-strung creatures. From Wordnik.com. [As The Pages Turn] Reference
Of course, he was courageous -- absurdly so -- and, in spite of his high-strung temperament, always calm and cool. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis] Reference
Then, to make some of this high-strung material relatable, Morrison throws in an easy reference to a popular movie. From Wordnik.com. [Betwa Sharma: Batman Comics Writer Renovates India's Ancient Epic] Reference
The high-strung toddler, who is half Puerto Rican, was bounced from one foster home to another for nearly three years. From Wordnik.com. [The Limits Of Tolerance?] Reference
So perverse have been fate's courses that this high-strung, assertive mariner hesitates to direct life's drifting argosy. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
"That's a peculiarly sensitive, high-strung, nervous child; you must be gentle with her," and both parents had stared at him. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Of a sensitive, high-strung temperament, E.A. Partridge suffered reaction to such a degree that at times he became almost despondent. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Furrows] Reference
That describes the man who rode Rollo first -- and no wonder the spirited, high-strung colt was suspicious of saddles, men, and things. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
From the first she was sensitive and high-strung, nervously damaged probably in her early years by her mother's restless, unwise overcare. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
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