The engineers were under-staffed, under-manned, and overworked.

wouldn't I feel it?" "You've overworked yourself.

As a matter of fact, the bird mother had been overworked and so killed.

If the idlers would work, nobody would be overworked.

This condition is seen in young persons who have been underfed and overworked.

If it is notif the skin cannot do this part of the workan additional burden is thus laid on the lungs, which in this way soon become so overworked, that they cannot perform their own proportion of the labor.

The city must come out of itself for a few weeks, and get oxygen for its lungs, sunlight for its eyes, and rest for its overworked brain.

This prince, only surviving son of Anne, had a feeble body, and was unwisely crammed by Bishop Burnet, his preceptor, and overworked by Marlborough, who taught him military tactics.

Overworked brains and stomachs, underworked muscles and limbs, soon derange the balance of supply and demand.

But should the digestion not be in such a typical condition, should the exercise be oversevere and the victuals deficient, then the waste must be limited by some arrester of metamorphosis; if it is not, the system suffers, and the man is what is called 'overworked.'....

One of these finally worked until nature overcame force of habit and reliability, and a collision would have resulted but for the returning consciousness of the overworked and thoroughly exhausted man.

[Footnote 6: "Dramatic" has recently become one of the most overworked words in the vocabulary of journalism.

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.

The conducting nerves between the brain and the spinal marrow have been overworked: too much activity, too constant a strain.

As the training went on, the man who had been elected captain of the eight worked so faithfullyor overworked so faithfullythat he was trained up to the finest point some two or three weeks before the great regatta of academies.

Do you think he is really out of health?" "No," said Mrs. Tolbridge, "he is simply overworked, and needs rest.

The wealthy convey it on trucks drawn by fine horses which, however, are cruelly overworked.

While the blunt chisels hack out the redemption of the overworked (and Heaven knows I don't deny their existence), let those who can, preserve the almost-lost art of living, so that when the millennium comes (you see I don't deny that this time it's on the way!)

Why is it that faith with a little F is such a perfect thing, and yet Faith, grown-up Faith in Church, is so tiring?" "Perhaps one is overworked and the other isn't," suggested Kew.

" Yet all the slaves he saw seemed gay and light-hearted and on Sundays played at pitching the bar with an activity and zest that indicated that they managed to keep from being overworked and found some enjoyment in life.

CHAPTER XIV A FARMER'S AMUSEMENTS No one would ever think of characterizing George Washington as frivolous minded, but from youth to old age he was a believer in the adage that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boya saying that many an overworked farmer of our own day would do well to take to heart.

Operating tables stood under the trees in the open air; assistants sponged the blood from them continually; the overworked surgeons, stripped to their undershirts, smeared with blood, worked coolly and rapidly in the shade of the oak-trees, seldom raising their voices, never impatient.

What she may believeor think she believesis born only of morbid nerves, overworked body, and a crippled power of reasoning.

Far away on the hillside an artilleryman, making a funnel of his hands, shouted for stretchers; and Ailsa, repeating the call, managed to gather together half a dozen overworked bearers and start with them up through the smoke.

Four hours right out of the sleep of a peasant boy especially when he is overworked, is likely to leave him useless the next day.