overweary
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of overweary
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And such an oppressed, burdened and overweary Atlas was the 1.8 million group sharing the $10.2 billion load .
From Time Magazine Archive
How often, when she sat opposite me in the sewing-room, her hands dropped in her lap, and she went to sleep, like an overweary child.
From A Sister's Love A Novel by W. Heimburg
That I am," laughed Brian, "and soon, for I am overweary with riding.
From Nuala O'Malley by H. Bedford-Jones
I am overweary for the road; let Simwa find it.
From The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts by Mary Hunter Austin
"Sahib," I said, considering his words as a cook tastes curry, "our men be overweary to have fight in them."
From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy
The pneumonia of the shiftless, the tuberculosis of the overwearied struggler, the heart disease of the adventurer, no longer acted alone as our receiving agents.
From Time Magazine Archive
The theater, some good music, his athletics, and the hastily snatched pleasures of vacation, together with the limp reading of an overwearied man, afforded him such desultory pleasures as fell in his path.
From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Richard Savage
The place is very lonely—all overwearied with sun and breeze and brine— very close to nature, as it was Shelley's passion to be.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
Nor will He allow me to get overwearied with vain efforts.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
I lay tossing for a long time in ‘restless ecstacy,’ until vexed and overwearied nature at last sunk to repose.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
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