His life was drawing to a close in baffled zeal and unrelaxed strain.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : in a relaxed mood. ,the relaxed rules of the club.    From Dictionary.com. 

I am feeling pretty unrelaxed, which I think is to be expected after last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [readersguide Diary Entry] Reference

The count entered my room with his eyes fixed on the old woman and his features unrelaxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference

An unrelaxed avoidance of contractions, for emphasis: "I did not" rather than "I didn't.".    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Avoid Being Lied To] Reference

The place won in the struggle by an industrial people can only be held by unrelaxed endeavor and constant advance in achievement.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

At the same time, the slave, the yoke of his condition being still unrelaxed, continued to serve his masters as Firminus, who knew him, was able to report.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference

He smiled under the unrelaxed severity of her gaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Summer] Reference

Their watchfulness seemed unrelaxed through the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5] Reference

The result was changed position, while the clinch remained unrelaxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man in the Twilight] Reference

The homeward journey is simply a record of unrelaxed toil day after day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference

Apostolic zeal, and unrelaxed discipline had wrought these wonders, during.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1] Reference

But this knot was hard and unrelaxed, the will of the dying man never gave way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

I'll just be a cold shell, doubled-up, unrelaxed, a callous thing never to yield.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Border Legion] Reference

Just thinking about it now, it all feels terribly unrelaxed and even quite intrusive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

A glance at the grim, unrelaxed, and unrelenting visage of the bar-keeper decides him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea] Reference

Siriano sits, unrelaxed, on the edge of a lounge chair in one of Saks Jandel's salons.    From Wordnik.com.  [poststar.com RSS] Reference

Do they not see those unrelaxed circles of death narrowing and narrowing every hour around them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Supplementary Prose, from Complete Prose Works (1892)] Reference

Against Mrs. Poyntz, above all others, I bore a remembrance of unrelaxed, unmitigable indignation.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference

The discipline of his household -- like the discipline under which he held himself -- was unrelaxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Edged Tools] Reference

A gold medal in a morocco-leather case, won by an essay that had called for months of unrelaxed study.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions] Reference

With unrelaxed nerves, with morning vigor, sail by it, looking another way, tied to the mast like Ulysses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

But he held on her unrelaxed, with an almost mechanical relentlessness, keen as a sword pressing in to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

"(Today) is probably the most unrelaxed round we'll play just because of the alternate shot," DiMarco said.    From Wordnik.com.  [naplesnews.com Stories] Reference

The single-day break from classes left us confused, unrelaxed, and, upon our return, not especially well rested.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily Pennsylvanian] Reference

In a twinkling they were captives, their arms tightly bound behind them, the stifling grip of their necks unrelaxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackbeard: Buccaneer] Reference

Throughout the night it rested, licking its wounds in the darkness, with vigilance still unrelaxed and its might unimpaired.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Trick] Reference

His attentive attitude was unrelaxed, his smile was as deferential as before, but this morning he found a less responsive guest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Max] Reference

However, though she did not again disturb Ellen's curls, she glowered at her with furtive but unrelaxed hostility over her book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portion of Labor] Reference

Yet it is not the self-tormenting strife of introspective and self-conscious aspiration, but rather an unrelaxed, diligent intention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People] Reference

The judgments of such men as those with whom you have been living, while they delight me, impose on me the duty of unrelaxed efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2] Reference

A fortune, he punished by rigorous and unrelaxed confinement in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

If it weren't so unrelaxed and eager to please, this might have pleased a lot more. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

"Now go," resumed Ujarak, with an unrelaxed brow; "go tell your story to the people assembled in the big hut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Rooney The Last of the Crew] Reference

Dominey's face remained unrelaxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Impersonation] Reference

His stern old face was still unrelaxed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of Tarzan] Reference

El Exaltida, unrelaxed, brooded over his tie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tour de Force]