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high-strung
1. I felt such soul-deep shame for fellow humans who had to submit to being treated like high-strung toy poodles or mischievous pups that couldn’t be trusted off the leash
2. same high-strung drama of a chihuahua
3. More than once over the years he’d tried to control the canine mob, if not to actually train them, at least to tame them of their high-strung antics
4. could get in-n-out using a pair of high-strung tennis
5. I was so high-strung and emotional
6. The old favourites, the high-strung rites, the vanguard adventure, they are all but a curious sensor, pressing the button, to release our state of weightlessness
7. relax nervous or high-strung patients, to calm their anxieties, and generally to sedate them
8. That said, I am also a very anxious and high-strung person
9. Well-trained oarsmen, in Ulbrickson’s experience, were like high-strung racehorses
10. He has encouraged much of the Capataz's confounded nonsense—the high-strung, exalted old beggar!"
11. There was a high-strung bully who was better avoided and who kept lizards from his German mother
12. Then I saw four high-strung, shivering animals leading the way
13. He had arrived aboard a high-strung brown-and-buff great strider
14. If she was upset during the time, well, she could have a crisis over what she was having for lunch, she was that emotional and high-strung
15. The mere physical restraint was torture to so active, high-strung a man, but when it came to a problem play—— He not unnaturally considered that it represented the full measure of his devotion to his wife, to spend an evening beside her listening to the same old jumble of human motives, human passions, that had occupied him all day long
16. Gabriel marries an unsatisfactory young woman in the vicinity, Ophelia Gusset, and retains Joan as his consoler and friend in a virtuous but high-strung companionship, out of which the country gossips, who hear of it through a spying servant, develop a slander