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• Then he can sift and strain. (10)
• But she talked in no such strain. (10)
• To this pathetic strain they melted. (10)
• Temple chimed in, in a similar strain. (10)
• I did not like the strain; yet I clung to him. (10)
• Lavender, do you find your work a great strain? (8)
• It was all in a strain of extravagant burlesque. (9)
• Mix the three, strain, and throw away the sediment. (10)
• Algernon raised his head with a strain at haughtiness. (10)
• Algernon raised his head with a strain at haughtiness. (22)
• The strain on this part of the body is always intense. (21)
• It was as lofty a stretch as her nature could strain to. (10)
• She chatted in this strain, but told him not to be bitter. (12)
• The strain upon his nervous organization was insupportable. (1)
• It was too late to catch at a trifle to strain it to a tussle. (10)
• In this strain Mr. Pendyce continued until they reached the church. (8)
• If we strain to the farther shore, We are catching at comfort near. (10)
• The strain he adopted was quite natural to his passion and his theme. (10)
• Such a strain of shallow artifice could not impose even upon Catherine. (4)
• I talked of our management of them, in the strain of Dr. Julius von Karsteg. (10)
• The Monk did not fall into the jocular trap by retorting in the same strain. (10)
• Chivalry might be dead, but still there was something to do, went the strain. (10)
• It sometimes puts a great strain upon the intellectual honesty of the editor. (16)
• And here he was already, hypnotised by the prestige of a certain strain of blood! (8)
• These are times that strain the buoyant temperament and the rugged constitution. (21)
• His spirits began to rise, but the strain he had been undergoing had been intense. (14)
• He had a courage, a magnanimity, that was equal to the strain of any such uncertainty. (9)
• She had therefore to strain her adroitness to cover their deficiencies and fuse them. (10)
• Under the strain of this duel of eyes, she felt herself beginning to sway, to get dizzy. (8)
• And the nearer he is pushed to that limit, the greater the strain upon his psychic digestion. (16)
• The strain of her spread fingers on his shoulder signified no dread at her being left behind. (10)
• In the end this war will be won by the country whose financial position stands the strain best. (8)
• But she felt a strain upon her nature, and she was miserable in her alienation from her father. (10)
• He watched the anguish of the prayer, and was rewarded for the strain of his faculties by sleep. (10)
• Her hand and her whole shape he took, and she with closed eyes let him strain her to his breast. (10)
• But it all ended as such a strain must, in the sort of break which was not yet known as nervous prostration. (9)
• Was the strain now to be placed on his shoulders too great for the powers of a hero seventy-two years of age? (19)
• But a letter sent, upon special request, by railway, should not, I thought, be couched in the ordinary strain. (10)
• One sees how the thing could be managed otherwise, with a slight strain on the resources of psychical research. (2)
• The pain of a memory waking under pillows, unable to do more than strain for breath, distracted his attention. (10)
• Implacable they shine To us who would of Life obtain An answer for the life we strain To nourish with one sign. (10)
• Nothing could the poor little heart reply but strain to his bosom and sleeplessly pray in his arms all the night. (10)
• The Holker had the Englishman so that his only chance was to wear ship, but his masts could not stand the strain. (18)
• In that dark passage outside he felt two arms go tenderly round his neck; and a soft shape strain itself to his heart. (9)
• Indeed, the temper of our eminently serene will feel the strain of a doldrum-dulness that is goaded to activity by a nettle. (10)
• He had less assurance than on the afternoon before; the strain of the situation was beginning to tell even on his coarse fibre. (13)
• Fore-sail and aft were at their gentle strain; her shadow rippled fragmentarily along to the silver rivulet and boat of her wake. (10)
• One would have thought the Scottish strain might have saved him; and yet, when a Scotsman did begin to go downhill, who could go faster? (8)
• They were of New England origin and they were perhaps a little more critical with her than if they had been New Yorkers of Dutch strain. (9)
• She looked at him to see whether the string she held him by would bear the slight additional strain: decided not to press a small point. (10)
• With some prevision of what was to come and a lively recollection of the nervous strain of helpless observation, I did not think it luck. (7)
• Her head reeled with the strain of it, and the effort to catch his voice among the hubbub of all those cheery, common, happy-go-lucky sounds. (8)
• The strain of his indecision over, he felt like a man recovering from an illness, and he carefully abstained from looking at the local papers. (8)
• The strain of sleeping in a moving train of cars at night and heavy hauling at day is tremendous, and strange, rough roads invite misfortune. (21)
• Great skill is required to prevent collision or collapse on the abrupt course; and rough, uneven grounds make serious strain upon the vehicle. (21)
• The strain of mysticism so marked in his youth, became later so pronounced that he felt compelled to give it expression by entering the church. (3)
• In truth, as the earl had noticed, she was physically depressed by the strain of her protracted watch over Beauchamp, as well as rather heartsick. (10)
• Some strain of her breeding (the Carfax strain, no doubt) still heard such names and greeted such proclivities with an inclination to derision. (8)

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