exertion

• Over-exertion is a most fruitful cause of disease. —  The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
• The incentive to exertion which is widest, most constant, and most powerful in its operations in all civilized countries, is the desire of distinction; and this may be composed either of love of fame or love of wealth or of both. —  The Frontier in American History
• He had become faint from over-exertion, and one of the drivers had applied the whip by way of stimulus. —  The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story
• She was ill from over-exertion, and nervous from over-excitement and grief. —  Christie Redfern's Troubles
• I didn't think that the word exertion was a very good one in Poqua-dilla's case, but I didn't argue the matter. —  A Jolly Fellowship

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