Thesaurus / overworked
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What weighed with me, too, was the fact that I was undoubtedly overworked and my health was suffering.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWKilkelly was a busy, but never seemed an overworked man, due I suppose to some constitutional quality he enjoyed.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWWhen they saw that their complaints were futile they sent over one socialist leader to have it out with the overworked purser.
WAYS OF WAR AND PEACEDELIA AUSTRIANThe floor was constantly inundated here by several defective and overworked water-faucets and a leaky trough.
FAMOUS ADVENTURES AND PRISON ESCAPES OF THE CIVIL WARVARIOUSWhy, I almost insulted them; told them Adot was a barren field, overworked and already supplied with their spiritual needs.
DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEYIt was not the function of the State or the Church to provide social opportunities for uneducated, overworked young people.
THE LEAVEN IN A GREAT CITYLILLIAN WILLIAM BETTSHow could the apathetic be awakened, the discouraged stimulated, the overworked rested and cheered?
THE LEAVEN IN A GREAT CITYLILLIAN WILLIAM BETTSIt hung over the grimy overworked mothers, and the poor grimy fledglings of children in the little huddled houses.
THE ROMANCE OF HIS LIFEMARY CHOLMONDELEYA poor little shabby, overworked thing, all eyes, and too big a forehead.
MARY GRAYKATHARINE TYNANI believe in trusting in providence, but I can't bear to see providence overworked.
THE REGENTE. ARNOLD BENNETTWORDS RELATED TO OVERWORKED
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