"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.

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

The work was plainly overtaxing him.

I can deny you nothing; but I fear the journey will overtax your strength.

V. misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate. desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste &c 638; overtask, overtax, overwork: squander &c 818. cut blocks with a razor, employ a steam engine to crack a nut; catch at a straw.

tax, task, strain; overtask, overwork, overburden, overtax, overstrain.

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.

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

These were not, however, sufficient for their insatiable activity; when they could not do anything else, they played at tennis and such games at all hours of the day; and these pastimes had so much attraction for nobles of all ages that they not unfrequently sacrificed their health in consequence of overtaxing their strength.

My dear Chamberlain, you are overtaxing your strength; you are doing yourself harm.

You must not overtax yourself so soon; it might do you serious injury.

In these circumstances, it is not singular that commissions speedily began to overtax the busy sculptor's power of execution.

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

I can understand how you wished to be up as soon as possible; how proud you must feel that your preaching has led to this glorious awakening and made it possible to save the souls of many sinful onesbut you must be careful not to overtax yourself.

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

Just as we associate meekness with the worm that never turns, so the typically patient animal is the ass who is too phlegmatic to resent the most unjust chastisement, and ready to accommodate itself to the most overtaxing burdens.

Whatever she undertook was done thoroughly and with an untiring industry, which often claimed the watchful care of her parents from the fear lest she should overtax her strength.

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.

Overtaxing the brain with her continuous study, she became ill, and the physician, greatly to her delight, prescribed fresh air and sunshine.

The best pupils are likely to work hardest, and to overtax their strength.

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.

" "If we hitched her up to a plough," went on Fulham, not heeding, "we shouldn't be overtaxing her physical strength any more than she overtaxes her mental strength when she triesthe ordinary woman, I mean, like Miss Vroomto keep up to the pace set by men of first-rate caliber.

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.

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

His great labor is evidently overtaxing his strength.