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• “She was consequently, in plain English, overworked, and an overworked woman is always a sad sight, -- sadder a great deal than an overworked man, because she is so much more fertile in capacities of suffering than a man.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

• “At times they may be a little overworked, which is why Ingrid can become the teen sleuth, but they clearly like and love their daughter.”

  Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery

• “In the first of the evening they had been obliged to tell the fiddler the names of the dancers, but now he knows them all and throws off his flattering personalities and his overworked rhymes with an impartial rotation and unflagging ardor.”

  The Cavalier

• “I am overworked, that is all; and as my life of privation does not permit me to repair my forces, I have become anaemic; it is not serious.”

  Conscience — Complete

• “Guards is below commando, above infantry aka overworked infantry, underpaid commandos”

  www.hardwarezone.com.sg

• “The force's media team is understood to be about 10-strong, with a source conceding that they have been "overworked" by incessant media interest.”

  The Guardian: Joanna Yeates: 'reality TV' policing and press excess hamper hunt for killer

• “The body ends up storing versus using, it misses eliminating toxins, it raises levels of built-in cleaning systems to "overworked" and they try to prioritize to get done what they must, missing key things such as clearing out the digestive tract, removing toxins etc.”

  Ashley Koff: Sleep: Mother Nature's Weight Loss / Health Gain Drug

• “- And I think that so much of the media that we have is engaged in that kind of overworked idleness, where it pays attention to nothing.”

  Printing: Distracted-- the Coming of a New Dark Age; Rob Kall Interviews author Maggie Jackson

• “Never less than competent but seldom more than terminally dull, it is probably the kind of overworked, underinspired landfill Hopkins had in mind when he used the term ‘Parnassian.’”

  I’m Okay, I’m Just Floundering : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

• “Sometimes you say your paintings are "overworked".”

  Red Train

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