overwork

By then she had only three years to live, and was becoming frail from overwork.

Chronic starvation, overwork, disease, and freezing temperatures were as effective as the bullet, only slower and crueler.

Dickens died young, at 58, worn out from overwork, from the sheer strain of being himself.

This is a very dark frame of mind, consequent on overwork and the conclusion of the excruciating Ebb Tide.

Thyrsis came home beaten and crushed, worn out with overwork and worry, his heart black with rage and bitterness and despair.

It is much more probable that one of the bridges has broken through overwork.

Their lives are a lesson to a generation that fears intellectual overwork.

And we cannot all escape overwork however valiantly we fight our battle with non-essentials.