overtax

But if any one of his clerks can be advantageously treated with on such terms as may not overtax your pecuniary resources, accept my assurance that the opportunity shall be made the most of by, dear madam, your faithful servant,

I may overtax your patience with the story of my life so different from yours, not only in all the facts but altogether in spirit.

Carefully study the well-being of your men, and do not overtax them.

She was overbusy and overtaxed, and her thoughts were naturally drawn towards the difficult problems of daily living.

This double burden soon proved too much for my already overtaxed beast, and thus our speed was terribly diminished, for the others would proceed no faster than the slowest of us could go.

The boy's lips formed a glad cry of salutation as his eyes first discovered the whites--a cry that was never uttered, for almost immediately he witnessed that which turned his happiness to anger as he saw that both the white men were wielding heavy whips brutally upon the naked backs of the poor devils staggering along beneath loads that would have overtaxed the strength and endurance of strong men at the beginning of a new day.

My administration is somewhat overtaxed, and this is the reason why I have not slept during the past night."

He watched a patch of moonlight cross the floor of their lodging, and, as sometimes happens when the mind is overtaxed, he fell asleep for the rest of the room, but kept awake for the patch of moonlight.

Grewgious, with his usual air of repeating a lesson, 'cannot have his rest broken, and his mind cruelly tormented, and his body overtaxed by fatigue, without being thoroughly worn out.'

I soon found that I had overtaxed my strength and that I must repose before I could continue my journey.

Bill's overtaxed brain turned one convulsive hand-spring, and came to rest with a sense of having dislocated itself.

'I'm sure that they (the DOF and BIR) are all very intelligent, mature people that they will not overtax so that we lose whatever good it is ...