Even where the overseer has a fixed salary, irrespective of the value of the crop which he takes off, he is strongly tempted to overwork the slaves, as those overseers get the highest wages who can draw the largest income from a plantation with a given number of slaves; so that we may include in this last class of slaves, the majority of all those who are under overseers, whatever the terms on which those overseers are employed.

It would also be for their interest to make such arrangements as effectually to separate the sexes, or if that were not done, so to overwork the females as to prevent childbearing.

A splendid constitution, a noble frame; but I think she has overworked her brain a little, reading Huxley and Darwin, and the German physiologists upon whom Huxley and Darwin have built themselves.

They was careful not to overwork young hands.

" "It isn't necessary to overwork my imagination," I said, with a little bitterness.

Of the seven or eight Ministers who make up a Cabinet, four or five are usually able and overworked men.

There are two classes who need counsellingthose who overwork either mind or body or both, and there are many such, especially among those who conduct the multitude of our public journals.

"In those days the Princes were not overworked mortals as they are to-day.

It isn't fair to overwork the family tiara.

This is said to be one of the reasons why overworked white women die or go off their heads; and why in new cities you can see blocks of flats being built to minimise the inconveniences of housekeeping without help.

Without overworking the crew, a few hours spent each day at that work would bring it to a good end.

Any time you are out of a job and want to overwork all your faculties and a few emotions, try chaperoning a young room-mate answering to the name of Sada San, who is one-half American dash, and the other half the unnamable witchery of a Japanese woman; a girl with the notes of a lark in her voice when she sings to the soft twang of an old guitar.