...To give expression to humour, and write in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...Sometimes,too, I may raise my strain, as occasion offers, to divert us as werange the groves and plains...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...At the same time I'll warn ye not to put too heavy a strain on my generosity, which resides at the moment in my trigger-finger...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...She had undergone a greater strain than she knew, and was sunk in theheavy sleep of weary nerves...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...That happenssometimes after heavy fatigue and great mental strain...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
... “Another word, mademoiselle, in that strain, and you will see me expire at your feet...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...She was tired out, body and soul, and he—her faithful friend—vaguely wondered how long she would be able to withstand the strain of so much sorrow, such unspeakable misery...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
... But she could lean out of the window and strain her eyes to see...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...The relief from the nervous strain under which he had been laboringfor so long...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...Yet when he spoke in this strain to the queen, he could get from her nothing except, “If we can find Mr...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...However, we continued all the day to toil and strain our exertions,till we had brought all on board safe to the shore; so that out ofthirty-two people we lost not one...
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
...The constant strain on his untutored mind seemed now to reach a climax, for during the night he became insane...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...In addition to going themselves,they send trained natives as evangelists and Bible-readers, and keepa keen eye on the trained native, which means a considerable amountof worry and strain too...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...The mental strain involved inleading the so-called simple life of the so-called savage is, on thewhole, no less intense than that suffered by the civilised man inmaintaining his civilised existence...
Peter Nielsen 「The Black Man's Place in South Africa」
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