Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlabored
Literary usage of Overlabored
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... his penny roots; and yet is it a call, a conjuration of the heart of man
overlabored and desponding—walled in by the gloom of a town — divorced from the ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"The wailings of the poor children were stifled within them. The whispers of the
women, and the heavy breathing of the overlabored men, sank and sank ..."
3. The Little Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1913)
"... Amid immense machines' incessant hum — Frail figures, gaunt and dumb, Of
overlabored girls and children, bowed Above their slavish toil: "O God! ..."
4. The Tudor Drama: A History of English National Drama to the Retirement of by Tucker Brooke (1911)
"The average early Elizabethan heroic play can hardly have possessed the confusing
intricacy of character and situation found in the two overlabored ..."
5. The Library of American Biography by Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), Jared Sparks (1846)
"eight was all the repose that he could grant to his overlabored men. By three in
the morning they were in motion, and, by forcing theif march, contrived to ..."
6. Advancement of Learning: And Novum Organum by Francis Bacon, James Edwin Creighton (1900)
"d For all eloquence which is affected or overlabored, or merely imitative, though
otherwise excellent, carries with it an air of servility, nor is it free ..."
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