"Overworking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with heat and frankincense, and contadini, and wax lights burning before the shrine, on which the sun shone. There were beautiful faces among the pajine (people in fine raiment), showing what can be made from the contadine (people in coarse clothes) by not overworking them. ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various
... what. You've been overworking yourself. I once got like that on board the Sandhurst, working for the passing-out exam. I got so bad that ...
— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various
... away May laid her hand shyly on his. "I'm so sorry you don't feel well. I'm afraid they've been overworking ...
— The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton |
