Overtaxed Sentence Examples

Yet Monk was clearly overtaxed, and on the 3rd he prepared to retreat to the Thames.

Paolo had never been a strong man, and his health was overtaxed with studies and commercial worries.

But this is exceptional, and generally one part gives way before another, either on account of one part being naturally weaker or of one part having been overtaxed or more severely attacked by some injurious external influence, or by some undue preponderance of another part of the body itself.

That he might not be overtaxed he was left entirely uneducated, and his indolence was indulged to such an extent that he was not even expected to be clean.

The report - or rather the collection of minority reports - gave some countenance to those who held that Ireland was overtaxed, and there was a strong agitation on the subject, in which some Irish Unionists joined without perceiving the danger of treating the two islands as " separate entities."

They are cooling and moisturizing, as well as nourishing, and make no great demands on an already overtaxed system.

The administration of the navy, called upon as it was to deal with a war of unprecedented magnitude, was overtaxed by the obligation to refit ships, raise crews, and provide for the numerous sick or wounded.