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Significados de highly strung em inglês

Being in a tense state.

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      Uso de highly strung em inglês
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      The boy being highly strung, a little criticism went a long way.
      Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
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      Those girls are highly organised, highly sensitive; their nerves are highly strung.
      Spring Days
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      Your nerves are too highly strung, and nerves play us strange tricks.
      The Return Of The Soul / 1896
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      Lister saw he tried to be cool, but thought him highly strung.
      Lister's Great Adventure
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      He was as highly strung as a racehorse at the gate.
      Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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      She may sound highly strung, but her demeanour is admirably grounded.
      The Guardian
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      Her sensitive highly strung nerves permitted these sharp alternations between despondency and hope.
      The Wings of the Morning
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      Heather was more highly strung, and responded to the darkening atmosphere around her.
      The water room
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      Such methodical work would calm nerves not often so highly strung.
      A Sweet Girl Graduate
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      He inherited in exaggerated degree his mother's highly strung nervous nature.
      The Recent Revolution in Organ Building / Being an Account of Mo...
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      Such a highly strung, sensitive nature amounts almost to a curse.
      Deadham Hard: A Romance
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      My dear, Derek is very highly strung, and he's been ill.
      The Freelands
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      He is, as I have said, a highly strung character.
      A journey: my political life
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      Is there source material for this highly strung, camp creation?
      The Guardian
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      She had not expected the question and was highly strung.
      The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
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      It's hard to perform well when you are highly strung.
      The Guardian
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