The reason is that they have either been overdeveloped, or at some time they have overtaxed their bodies so in a supreme effort at vanquishing their opponents that a part of the vital mechanism has been seriously affected.
The liver is neverovertaxed unless the consumption of food is excessive.
It was but a momentary dream, a thought that burned itself upon a fancy overtaxed by passionate images.
Under certain conditions it is sure to afflict all overtaxed civilisation; and for the modern world no one has expressed its nature better than the slight and feminine De Musset.
I'm getting more fault-finding than an old maid, but loss of sleep and shattered nerves from being overtaxed in every way will account for it.
It was simply impossible to keep awake as overtaxed nature had reached its limit.
But the occurrences of the day had overtaxed her, and she could not.
He had perhaps spoken too much and overtaxed his strength.
She knew of his sleepless nights, the result of overtaxed nerves and brain, when he would toss and turn and get up and walk the room; and dress himself in the morning without having slept.
There was no particular failing outwardly, but he felt all too conscious that his overtaxed brain was getting worse than it had ever been.
I will merely remark," said the Mistress of the House, "that if the King of Siam undertook to emulate my hero in all his performances, it would be a pretty hard thing for his already overtaxed subjects.
Like the good King of Siam, I consider my already overtaxed subjects.
Untrained as they were, this forced march had seriously overtaxed their strength and entailed much suffering.
Whether it was ten years or ten minutes, time had stood still for them; the overtaxed body had risen against its oppressor and annihilated their every faculty.
As I have never overtaxed my constitution, I still enjoy robust health; and as my mind is endowed with all the force that I have not wasted, this head of mine is even better furnished than my galleries.
I have an idea that she has overtaxed herself--apart from her hip disease, her heart was in a very critical state.
The effort to digest too much natural scenery is a species of intellectual gluttony the overtaxed brain will be quick to revenge, by an attack of indigestion or a loss of appetite.
Not even a zephyr stirred, while the glare was painful to eyes already overtaxed in the endeavor to grasp the full meaning of this most unaccustomed scene.
It overtaxed her courage with a smothered cry of fear she sprang upright, and her shaking hands struck a flame to bring light into the room.
It follows from this that Ireland has been overtaxed at the rate of between two and three millions a year, and that for a very considerable space of time.
With sorely overtaxed and waning strength, As some spent swimmer struggling to the shore, The weary party found its way at length, Back through the forest to the cabin's door.
As one, inert and overtaxed From strenuous toil, he soon relaxed Into that dull composure, which Fatigue accords to poor and rich.
He had for several months overtaxed his physical strength, and the fever of the country had rudely shaken him, and left behind it an apathetic lassitude, as it frequently does.
It is healthy, moreover, and in its pursuit its followers can be of immense service to their overtaxed sisters.
He has overtaxed his strength for years, and his nerves are bound to play up.
It swells in men who have previously overtaxed it, thus preventing all sexual intercourse, and becomes very troublesome to void urine.
That if her wonderful adjusted organism isovertaxed and overburdened, her happiness, which is largely dependent upon her health, is destroyed.
Hard-hearted family pride and cruel worldliness had robbed her of the delight with which God ever seeks to dower young motherhood, and now the overtaxed body and brain had given way.
I am overtaxed now, and must lessen, instead of increasing, my work.
The effort hadovertaxed me, and snatching the paper from my typewriter, read aloud L-A-Z-Y.
These unmanageable pupils and their overtaxed preceptors fairly went mad, while Mac yelled, "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here!
With a degree of patience that would have overtaxed Job himself, I collected my belongings, dragged my beast of burden to Yonkers, and anchored him in front of a hotel.
