"Give up this toilsome work which is overtaxing your strength," Reginald had said, as they sat together one evening in the twilight, "and make your home with us.

Nor does the working of the soil on southern plantations overtax the power of the mule.

Not a countenance but wore that immobile look, the fixed, unseeing eye of the spent runner, who is overtaxing heart and lungs.

FOOD FOR THE AGED One of the first requisites of food for the aged is that it shall be easy of digestion, since with advancing age and decreasing physical energy, digestion and assimilation may be taken with impunity at an earlier period of life, overtax the enfeebled organs and prove highly injurious.

I have not yet told the half, nor the most wonderful; and I believe I have already overtaxed credulity.

Here, having at last come into the region of settlements, they agreed never again to overtax the dogs.

In the diplomatic correspondence which was his official duty, and in the composition of his tract, Defensio pro Popululo Anglicano, he overtaxed his eyes, and in 1654 became totally blind.

When a little later she was walking in her sleep, and dreaming strange dreams, he did not see that he was overtaxing both her body and brain.

From the few words which I caught, of the human heart, etc., I did not know but the presence of a third person might be agreeably dispensed with;" and it was overtaxing the fringed lids of the mischievous Winnie's eyes, in adding to their duties the office of sentinel.

He has been building too hot a fire to begin with, or has, been letting his fire door stand open; or he may have overtaxed his boiler; or else he has been blowing out his boiler when too hot; or has at some time blown out with some fire in firebox.

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

To prevent overtaxing their production, it is essential that part of the load be passed to the southern pine cut-over lands.

It is the most serious waste to overtax the stomach with even half an ounce more than it can take care of.

Excitement and fatigue had so overtaxed the girl's slender store of strength that she had to stay in bed for several days.

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.