Word: straining
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Still let me pay, in the accustomed strain...
...Freshman year is entirely given over to studies which, in themselves important, are absolutely valueless compared with the advantages of a thorough knowledge of English. The evil is the greater in that the preparatory schools - as far as the classical courses are concerned - are obliged, by the strain and worry of preparing boys for their severe entrance-examinations, to omit or neglect, in great degree, the study of English composition and grammar; while the lack of time for gaining even an elementary knowledge of our own literature brings about a most deplorable result, - young men enter college skilled in mathematics...
TONY TOUGH (condescendingly). Well done, my classmates, noble is the strain...
NUMEROUS cases of brain-fog and actual insanity from over study have recently occurred in England. Ten per cent of the young men who passed the competitive Civil Service Examination for Indian service showed, when they afterwards applied for health-certificates, that they had been affected injuriously by the strain of the examination...
...poems are usually written in a strain just the contrary of my feelings. For instance, just after a delightful dinner (and it takes a poet to appreciate the dainties that a good cook can prepare), when I felt perfectly at peace with man and beast, I wrote the following somewhat dolorous effusion...