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If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.
— Mark Dayton
The moon rose, squatting in the strained blue.
— Janet Fitch
Rose. Roza. Open your eyes." I've never heard heard his voice so strained, so frantic. "Don't go to sleep on me. Not yet.
— Richelle Mead
Relations between Terra and Luna had been strained since the Lunans had eaten Neil Armstrong in 1960.
— A. Lee Martinez
What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.
— Alexander Blok
But somehow or other my intimacy with them was always strained and soon ended of itself. Once, indeed, I did have a friend. But I was
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that
— Koushun Takami
His collar pulled and his tie strained against the intrusion. He blinked. He was irresistibly aware of the oddness of moving things.
— Jamie O'Neill
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
— Henry David Thoreau
Are you laughing at me?" I squawk. I laugh, too, my voice sounds so strained. Will's laughter picks up even more. "I can't help it. You make me happy.
— Kristin Halbrook
She was in the mood for sounds of every kind now, and strained her ears to catch the faintest, in wayward enmity to her quiet of mind.
— Thomas Hardy
He grinned, though his face was strained. That's it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.
— Elizabeth Hoyt
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
— Gwendoline Christie
Due to Gail's drug addiction and my mother's street status, their relationship had been strained over the years. My
— Mz. Lady P
Then he folded his arms on his chest, so his biceps strained at the sleeves of his t-shirt, courtesy of the arm curl machine.
— Jennifer Echols
You're mine, Nissa." The words were guttural, strained.She knew it. Deep inside her core the truth was there. — Savannah Stuart
He did not accept the good news of God; he strained it to his heart, and was jubilant over it.
— George MacDonald
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
— Michel De Montaigne
The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.
— Sondra Radvanovsky
When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
— Viggo Mortensen
A gentleman's brain must be treated gently and never overburdened. It gets so little exercise. We don't want it strained.
— Jayne Fresina
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
— William Butler Yeats
You're like a monster, dude'", he says, light amusement coloring his strained voice. "'From a monster movie. The man who would not fucking quit
— Ben H. Winters
Shit!' cried the king, and 40 thousand stooped and strained.
— Robert Leland Taylor
The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I'm just trying to show the world what an imagination can do when it isn't strained by humanly limitations.
— Lu Groblebe
Today she wears her habitual expression of strained anxiety; she smells of violets.
— Margaret Atwood
Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
— Simon Van Booy
He cannot speak clearly if his words must be strained through a Congressional gag.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Sorry, baby. Let's get out of here, he says, speaking with the intense, strained tones of a man with an erection.
— Neal Stephenson
Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse. — William Shakespeare
Kiss me back, Tenleigh," he whispered, his voice strained. "God, please kiss me back.
— Mia Sheridan
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
— Francis Bacon
Matter moves, but Ether is strained.
— Oliver Lodge
