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
Washington's face never betrayed him, but a glad look came to the overweary eyes.
From Then Marched the Brave by Hicks, Anna S.
They began to doze at intervals,—keeping their canoe balanced in some automatic way,— as cavalry soldiers, overweary, ride asleep in the saddle.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
It is one of the most complex and changeful conditions, ranging from the disturbed doze of the overweary, to the most sensitive clairvoyance.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
"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 Mundy, Talbot
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
I know how you must have been overwearied with long hours of watching.
From Fifty Famous People by Baldwin, James
He was much calmer now, though overwearied with the strain of his many journeys.
From The Wendigo by Blackwood, Algernon
One night he wrought hard by the glimmer of his wretched lamp, until, overwearied, he fell fast asleep, and slept like one dead.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 by Dodge, Mary Mapes
By mutual speech we seek mutual comfort, and desire to ease the heart overwearied with manifold anxieties.....
From The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation by Hughson, Shirley C.
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