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That few casualties bite the dust is due chiefly to Guerrilla-Author Gordon's scattering fire, in her overanxiety to wipe out the entire enemy at one try.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his overanxiety to avoid monotony Author La Farge frequently varies the metre, not always with happy effect.

From Time Magazine Archive

The crime is compounded when the baby is put on a clock-ruled feeding schedule, a practice which is almost bound to produce overanxiety in parents and loss of appetite in children.

From Time Magazine Archive

The critics declare that it was spoiled somewhat by overwork at it and overanxiety to rival some of the great paintings of this kind from Leonardo and Michelangelo which Raphael had so much admired.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

I can explain it in no way than by assuming that it is due to overanxiety to do the correct thing.

From As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home by Gratton, Henry Pearson