Again, the extra work imposed upon the digestive organs and the liver in getting rid of the excess of fats and sugar in rich, unwholesome foods, continually overtaxes these organs.

No matter how hospitably the tiny cottage might be thrown open for their reception, it would certainly be overtaxing its capacity to attempt to make nine extra people comfortable there for the remainder of the nightit was barely one o'clock.

She arrived at Keseberg's cabin, overwrought mentally, overtaxed physically, and chilled by the freezing night air.

The work was plainly overtaxing him.

Still there was a delay of some months, which was partly due to the nurses' need of further training, and partly to the imperative necessity that she should have entire rest in order to recruit the strength which had been so sorely overtaxed at the Great Northern Hospital.

Like most men who systematically overtax their brains, he was a poor sleeper.