But when the Major overstrains his voice, it misses fire like a costermonger's, and only a falsetto note comes on a high register.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Beyond these limits it stunts the body, dulls the brain, overstrains the heart, and spoils the appetite.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson
For he who either gives up or overstrains his prerogative ceases to be a king or constitutional ruler, but becomes either a despot or demagogue; and in the one case is feared, in the other despised by his subjects.
"Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)"
Plutarch