The first time, he had fought against it with the whole strength of his intellect, had ascribed it all to an Overexcitement of his nerves; now he firmly believed in a supernatural apparition.
"Boris Lensky"
Ossip Schubin
For Count Ville-Handry, acting under a kind of Overexcitement, had that day lost all self-control, and forgot himself so far as to treat his daughter as no gentleman would have treated his child while in his senses, and that in the presence of his servants!
"The Clique of Gold"
Emile Gaboriau
2. The control of emotions: Dependence on expression-Relief through expression-Relief does not follow if image is held before the mind-Growing tendency toward emotional control-The emotions and enjoyment-How emotions develop-The emotional factor in our environment-Literature and the cultivation of the emotions-Harm in emotional Overexcitement.
"The Mind and Its Education"
George Herbert Betts