It is not uncommon for women to labor in the heated wash-room, pounding, rubbing, and wringing soiled linen, thereby overtaxing the delicate physical system.
When the volitive faculties are in excess, they may overdo the other functions, prematurely break down the bodily organs, and, by overtaxing the system, subject it to pain and disorder.
Everyone complains about the overtaxing of the intellectual faculties; they say that it is the ruin of children; and so, by way of improvement, they go in now for overtaxing them physically, which is a more certain ruin still.
Overtaxing the male gives rise to weak and worthless offspring.
The overtaxing of mental power is, however, of graver import than the overtaxing of physical strength.
Wentworth gave his wife a quick glance, for this was hitting very close to his secret; but he saw in her only the very natural anxiety of a loving wife, who knew that her husband was overtaxing his strength.
Don't you suppose I can see how you are overtaxingyour strength?
Hereditary tendencies, overtaxing the mental powers during the developmental period of youth, and later in life excessive mental labor and anxiety of business affairs, are causes.
In fact, she impairs her digestion by not giving it sufficient work to do, while the man ruins his by spasmodically overtaxing it.
What will keeping up with the other girls amount to if the strain and the overtaxing makes an invalid of you for life, perhaps?
In this way the individual suffering with tuberculosis is assured of an efficient diet to meet the needs of the body without overburdening the digestive apparatus or overtaxing the excretory organs.
But in view of the preparations of our enemies it is our duty to prepare for continued war and not for a battle or a campaign, and I own I fear we can not accomplish this without overtaxing the capacity of our white population.
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.
He was haunted with many anxieties; in the first place, Ruth was overtaxing her strength in her hospital labors, and Philip felt as if he must move heaven and earth to save her from such toil and suffering.
The yoke is easy, because one bears it in quiet confidence, not overtaxing ability or straining hope.
