Education and culture were more important to him than the physical reactions ofoverworked labour or the mental processes of men who advocated violence.
The steam, like vapour from an overworked animal, wavered about him.
What weighed with me, too, was the fact that I was undoubtedly overworked and my health was suffering.
Kilkelly was a busy, but never seemed an overworked man, due I suppose to some constitutional quality he enjoyed.
We have had old Irishwomen overworked like that, and all of a sudden they went out like snuffs: that is what happens.
Soon after, the overworked garrison had the immense satisfaction and excitement of bidding welcome to reinforcements with a stirring British cheer.
After a time the storm, both of animate and inanimate nature, began to abate, and the weary overworked soldiers were dropping off to sleep when a tremendous explosion effectually roused them.
The bell was answered by a plainly overworked servant girl, of whom we inquired for Mrs. Bolton, our landlady.
He had forgotten, during the last five or six years, that the leisured classes existed otherwise than as oppressors of the overworked ones.
TO reduce the burdens of the overworked and find employment for the workless workers,” as expressed in his own words, is the life-work of Samuel Gompers.
Last winter, I was under a pretty heavy strain, and myoverworked condition compelled me to rest for a while.
It occurs in young persons of a nervous temperament who have been overworked or overworried and have run down in weight.
The disease is contagious, and it is often fatal in alcoholics, the overworked and harassed, and in those that have chronic diseases.
For nearly fifty years after this period, the right to overwork and the "right" to be overworked remained untouched by legislative interference.
All the speakers would be agreed that the poorly paid and overworked woman was bringing a very dangerous element into the labor world, but there was not the same unanimity when it came to proposing a remedy.
The overworked young teacher, who performed the ungrateful task of inspecting sixty-four bureaus and sixty-four closets every Saturday morning, was happily of an unsuspicious nature.
He was as black as that overworked one-spot of spades.
But the old man was a sentimentalist in his way, and he couldn't stand the idea of selling a horse that he had taken care of as a baby to some truck driver to be overworked and abused.
The chambermaid is very versatile, and waits on the table while not engaged in agitating the overworked mattresses and puny pillows upstairs.
The two, together, with twice the money and half the expense for food, could furnish their children with far better care than the overworked and undereducated housewife can give them.
It maintains a low grade of womanhood, overworked or lazy; it checks the social development of men as well as women, and, most of all, of children.
The work was done by one overworked bishop in person or by commissioners specially appointed by him for the visitation of each house.
A young, neat, and buxom little woman she was, though rather sad-eyed and evidently overworked in the family struggle for existence.
But just bend down your ear a minute, poor, tired, overworkedand troubled sister, I have a special word for you.
Let the overworked horses, straining themselves blind with terrible loads, go on a strike.
It was the soldiering that he loved, and it was for this love of the soldiering that he deliberately overworked himself.
Fancy what an anxiety this is--their safety, their food, their overworked condition.
Poor people, overworked people, had constantly to submit to petty wrongs because of the intolerable uncertainty not only of law but of cost, and of the demands upon time and energy, proceedings might make.
But uncle got nothing for his money but ordinary food, clothes, and shelter, and seems to have worked as hard as any overworked laborer.
But the overworked astronomer has a different point of view.
The first subject Burnand sent me was the overworked and underpaid clerks in London.
For this he had only too sound a reason, for it was they who, grinding his overworked nerves, were destined literally to play him into his grave.
