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overstrung

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overstrung
(of a piano) having two sets of strings crossing each other at an oblique angle


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The sight that met the poor woman's eyes was too much for the already overstrung nerves.
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There was so strange a turmoil within my own head, and such a jangling of my overstrung nerves, that the indifference of those people was amazing.
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My overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the skirt of my dress.
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