overstrains

On some actions praise indeed is not bestowed, but pardon is, when one does what he ought not under pressure which overstrains human nature and which no one could withstand.

The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

Emphasizing that there were "no exceptional circumstances *** present," the majority asserted that "it rather overstrains our credulity to believe that [such a defendant would be ignorant] of his right [to request and] to engage counsel."

The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

For materialism is too wildly imaginative at the start: like a runner who at the outset overstrains his heart and thereafter runs no more, the follower of this creed, by his postulate of a blind impersonal Law, exhausts his power of speed and plods henceforth eyes downward over flattest plains of dulness.

Apologia Diffidentis 1905

Beyond these limits it stunts the body, dulls the brain, overstrains the heart, and spoils the appetite.

A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896

Major overstrains his voice, it misses fire like a costermonger's, and only a falsetto note comes on a high register.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

If India is to be held for the good of India, throw open India to the civilized nations, that they help us in a task that overstrains us.

Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868

If India is to be held for the good of India, throw open India to the civilized nations, that they help us in a task that overstrains us.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

If India is to be held for the good of India, throw open India to the civilized nations, that they help us in a task that overstrains us.

Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

On some actions praise indeed is not bestowed, but pardon is, when one does what he ought not under pressure which overstrains human nature and which no one could withstand.

The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865

For he who either gives up or overstrains his prerogative ceases to be a king or constitutional ruler, but becomes either a despot or demagogue; and in the one case is feared, in the other despised by his subjects.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839