overfatigue

Example Sentences

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You must not try to keep up, dear ladies, when you are overfatigued and ill.

From Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Speed, Nell

My dear Clara! and you, have you not overfatigued yourself?

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

The seven or eight hours of day sleep seem to have taken that away without substituting rest; and what you have on your hands is an overfatigued body, refusing to be goaded further.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford

"His Excellency, being overfatigued, hath need of a little strong spirit," he said, with a curious gobbling movement of his throat as if he himself had been either thirsty or in deadly and overmastering fear.

From The Black Douglas by Richards, Frank

In his nervous and overfatigued state, added to his susceptibility to quick hypnosis, he was now directly under the influence of Captain Clinton's stronger will, directing his weaker will.

From The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life by Klein, Charles