Actually, he had no idea of the circumstances under which the probably overenthusiastic Tuareg troopers had rounded up the American medical man.
"Border, Breed Nor Birth"
Dallas McCord Reynolds
Something had to happen, and her mother's rather sudden death proved the shock which was to relieve her from the overenthusiastic slavery to an impracticable routine.
"Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness"
Robert S. Carroll
His lamp was pronounced a fake, a myth, possibly a momentary success magnified to the dignity of a permanent device by an overenthusiastic inventor.
"Edison, His Life and Inventions"
Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin