It had been a long strain for him, postponing bedtime for a full ten minutes.

He was still feeling reaction after the long strain.

But it seemed as though, at last, the long strain was beginning to tell.

Without her it was inevitable that the reaction from the long strain to which he had subjected himself should affect him disastrously.

With the long strain gone, I am in a sort of physical collapse today, but it will be gone tomorrow.

He turned and went back again at last, when she was about ready to keel over from the long strain of holding herself motionless.

Conan's corded muscles were quivering as if from a long strain.

That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

Wen Chang rubbed his own neck, as if the long strain were beginning to tell on him.

The sudden reaction after that long nervous strain left us both mute for a time.