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Examples
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"The memories of the little moose-bird are overstrong and make trouble," he began.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010
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Little Koo-tee, the old man thought, a fretful child, and not overstrong.
THE LAW OF LIFE 2010
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Little Koo-tee, the old man thought, a fretful child, and not overstrong.
THE LAW OF LIFE 2010
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Please face the fact that you killed your wife out of your overstrong homosexual urges, are torn by Reverse Oedipus complex your son, and are definitely in love with Solo.
New Probe Droids 2005
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For they have but groped in the dark and gone by blind ways and with efforts painstaking rather than intelligent, and (what is worst of all), without attempting to imitate or emulate nature, but rather destroying by the use of violent heats and overstrong powers all that more subtle configuration in which the occult virtues and sympathies of things chiefly reside.
The New Organon 2005
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Some of their religion is not well pronounced, but declares itself in overstrong expressions.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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Sir Bleoberis, and sore wounded him because he bade me I should not have ado with him, for why he was overstrong for me.
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'How long can I continue in the use of these overstrong potions that now sustain me?
Elric of Melnibone Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1972
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White nails denote a fondness for society of opposite sex, not overstrong in health and subject to fevers.
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And though they who search may not be overstrong, yet while they seek it they will find in themselves many men's strength. '
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