She hardly realized it herself, but she was strung up to a fine point of overwrought nerves.

"I know," she said, trying to calm his overwrought nerves.

There's no better rest for overwrought nerves than a little vacation in fatalism.

That fleeting moment of recognition outside had probably been the product of overwrought nerves.

Perhaps his overwrought nerves were playing a sorry joke upon him.

His overwrought nerves were fabricating wild possibilities out of thin air.

Was it possible that his overwrought nerves had played tricks on him?

Your mother had one older sister, who was born with a permanent case of overwrought nerves, maybe also lacking in the brains department.

For what seemed an eternity to my overwrought nerves I remained poised thus.

The expression upon his face, combined with the relief I felt at seeing him again safe and sound, was too much for my overwrought nerves.