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Overtax  v. t.  To tax or to task too heavily; as, a job that overtaxed his physical energies.





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"Overtax" Quotes from Famous Books



... to doctor you,' I put in; and it was a shameless lie. 'You may take the tonic or not; it won't do much harm, anyway. But a gentle walk every day among the pines here—the very gentlest, nothing to overtax your strength—will do more for you than any drugs. But if you will let me call, pretty often, and have a talk— I'm an Englishman, you know, and an English ...
— Wandering Heath • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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... wont overtax your brain. My father was 44 when I was born. My mother was 41. There was twelve years between me and the next eldest. I was unexpected. I was probably unintentional. My brothers and sisters are not ...
— Misalliance • George Bernard Shaw
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... energy or consciousness of its accomplishment. There is nothing improbable in a flesh-eater requiring more food than a simple living vegetarian. His food contains more proteid, and excrementitious matter or extractives; these stimulate the digestive organs and overtax the excretory ones. Generally, he is fond of condiments, salt, and elaborate cooking, often also of alcohol; if a man, probably of tobacco. He lives, as it ...
— The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition • A. W. Duncan
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... overtax "Ulster" is even more captivating. But how are we to do it? Of course we might schedule the sites given up to Protestant church buildings as undeveloped land. Or we might issue income-tax forms with an assessment printed on one side, and the decrees of the Council of Trent on the ...
— The Open Secret of Ireland • T. M. Kettle
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... get some decent sleep? You racket about and overtax your strength and excite yourself. . . . And ...
— The Education of Eric Lane • Stephen McKenna
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... great chums. In fact, I chummed with you even more than with your brothers. But I am like the pigeon that went away in the fable of the Two Pigeons. If I once start to tell you I would want you to feel that you have been there yourself. 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. You may not understand. You may even be shocked. I say all this to myself; but I know I shall succumb! I have a distinct ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad
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