He had the great advantage, from his professional training, of knowing how to recognize and deal with the nervous disturbances to which overtaskedwomen are so liable.
I may be permitted to allude, in the most general way, to the case in which the spontaneous efforts of an overtasked stomach are quieted by the agency of a drug which that organ refuses to entertain upon any terms.
It is well for the overtasked clergyman, and his equally overtasked (though not equally salaried) wife, to have a brief breathing spell from vestries and verjuice.
Says the husband to his sick or overtasked wife, when she cries from mere mental or physical exhaustion, "How I hate tears; do be a reasonable being.
I was ill, overtasked with very heavy professional work, at the same time that I was writing the last chapters of my book.
At this sudden change from action to repose, the overtasked energies which had hitherto gifted the limbs of Antonina with an unnatural power of endurance, abruptly relaxed.
Well it may be that our natures Have grown sterner and more hard, And the freshness of their features Somewhat harsh and battle-scarred, And their harmonies of feeling overtasked and rudely jarred.
You cure his overtasked body, Fritz help his neglected mind, and when he is ready I'll see if he is a genius or only a boy with a talent which may earn his bread for him.
Hush, dearest, it is not that I do not think that you have done all for her that tenderness or good sense could devise, but your time is too much occupied, and I cannot see you overtasked by this poor child's headstrong temper.
Here she found abundant work, but her protracted labors had overtasked her strength, and she was for several weeks so ill that her life was despaired of.
The final close of the war brought with it, for the first time in all these long years, perfect rest to overtasked mind and wearied body.
With one of those rare impulses of an overtasked gentle nature, Jeff turned upon her almost savagely.
It was not easy for the overtaskedand overworn powers of Beatrice to rally.
Great grief and extraordinary suffering and excitement had overtasked the brain, and it had given way.
He had been working very hard, was just finishing an order that had occupied him the last year, and he had overtasked his mind as well as his body.
Marlowe perhaps might have made something of it, though the task would have taxed his energies to the utmost, and overtasked the utmost of his skill; Dekker could make nothing.
One work only of Dekker's too often overtasked and heavy-laden genius remains to be noticed: it is one which gives him a high place forever among English humorists.
Forbes Winslow, in remarking on Southey's case, says: "No brain can remain in permanent health that has been overtasked by nightly vigils still more than by daily labor.
I will sit by Arthur while you rest awhile; you have already overtasked your strength with vigil.
He had overtasked his delicate frame, yet scarce recovered from the effects of recent suffering, and he arose in the morning with a feeling of prostration that he could with difficulty overcome.
At last, when death came, and the soul took wing like anovertasked bird from his sweet form, I felt what I feel now.
But the arranging of these beauties seemed to have been little more than attempted; though indeed it might be questioned whether the finest art could have bettered the effect of what the overtasked hand of affection had left half done.
Olivia," she again ejaculates, after a moment's pause, from overtasked nature!
The next moment found them locked in each other's arms; overtasked nature could stand no more, and they both cried like children.
It relieves the overtasked brain, and the heart laden with cares; it makes the blood dance in the veins of youth, and gives a new impetus to the spirits; work goes on more briskly, when a gay heart sets the active powers in motion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overtasked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
