| 1. | You are overwrought and perhaps over-anxious. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | My poor darling's brain had told her the significance of the fact as quickly as her nerves received the pain of it, and the two so overwhelmed her that her overwrought nature had its voice in that dreadful scream. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | Perhaps if we could hear Tennyson read it, we should appreciate it better but, on the whole, it seems overwrought and melodramatic. - from English Literature by William J. Long |