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All these people were as bilious as they could be, humoursome, mistrustful, the victims of a moral and physical supersensitiveness.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Symptomatology.—Evident symptoms of inflammation in carpitis are always present—hyperthermia, supersensitiveness and swelling.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

We each have our own emotional microscope, and the strength of its lens increases in proportion to the supersensitiveness of our nervous system.

From Power Through Repose by Call, Annie Payson

Supersensitiveness to Pain.—Quite opposite to the foregoing instances are those cases in which such influences as expectation, naturally inherited nervousness, and genuine supersensitiveness make the slightest pain almost unendurable.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

She had never been on terms of intimacy with any of them during her stay there, hence their attitude troubled little after the first supersensitiveness wore off.

From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto