23 collocations for overloads

He went out, and after some time, informed me that our kind host had a violent cholera morbus, in consequence of the various kinds of food with which he had overloaded his stomach at dinner; that he considered himself near his last end, and was endeavouring to arrange his affairs for the event.

"The accumulating too great a quantity of knowledge at random, overloads the mind instead of adorning it.

" The two men, who came in the boat, hesitated about taking all of us at once, as we were nine in number, and with themselves might overload the boat.

The prodigious variety of foreign matter, introduced into that performance, seemed to overload the memory of Dr. Johnson, and, in the account of his own life, to leave him hardly visible.

The Romans so overloaded their capital that it seems impossible that everything recorded could have found place there.

He overloads his car with orient gems, And reins his fiery horses with rich pearl.

Had Cato not reason to make it a reproach against Nobilior, that he took Enniuswho, we may add, glorified in his verses the Roman potentates without respect of persons, and overloaded Cato himself with praisealong with him to Ambracia as the celebrator of his future achievements?

God doesn't overload his creatures unbearably, nor does he put any stress upon them from which they cannot extricate themselves.

True to the realism which controlled Michelangelo at the commencement of his art career, the head of Christ, who is but a child, slightly overloads his slender figure.

Life cannot exist without it, and yet, that it may persist, Nature seriously overloads many machines with disastrous results.

If we had had "87," with a full head of steam on, we could have got through all right, even if we had to overload the market with beef.

They have sought to record the full sum of his personality, and finding the subject elude them, as the translation of actions into words must ever fall short of finality, they have overloaded their narrative with minutest and almost always apocryphal details which leave the main outlines blurred.

For instance, you wouldn't be bothered in the least if I took a notion to overload the office with another pretty girl....

The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity, that Nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion, at the risk of perpetual crime and disorder.

Whatever we may think, however, of the introduction of scenes that were of sufficient importance to suggest such books as "Cloudesley" and "Guy Mannering," there can be but one opinion as to the bad taste which governed Smollett, when he consented to overload "Peregrine Pickle" with Lady Vane's memoirs; and if lucre were indeed at the bottom of the business, it assumes a yet graver aspect.

It was, in fact, his chief pleasure to overload the assigned spaces, in accordance with the manner of the ancients.

This resulted in somewhat overloading the staff at the head, and the principle on which the Board of Admiralty works, i.e., that its members are colleagues one of another, and seniority in rank does not, theoretically, give greater weight in council, was not altogether followed.

Pulse foods, again,peas, beans, lentilsare exceedingly nutritiousfar more so than they get credit for, and in their use it is most usual to heavily overload the system with excess of nitrogenous matter.

The hills on either side were ragged and abrupt, but of insignificant height: the length of the pass itself was about two miles, and from its head to Koteah Shroof the road was stony and difficult; but, as we had been careful at starting not to overload our baggage animals, they got through their work without being much distressed.

Still unjustifiable greediness of gain, had tempted the patron to commit the unseaman-like fault of overloading his vessel.

At the beginning of the field season the allowanceone third of a pound per day per manseemed excessive, and I was criticized for having overloaded the boxes.

"You should never overload your cake with citron.

Bread made of wheat, when taken in large quantities, has probably, more than any other article of food in use in this country, the effect of overloading the alimentary canal: and the general practice of the French physician points out the prevalence of diseases thence arising amongst their patients.

23 collocations for  overloads