overweary
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of overweary
Example Sentences
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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
Send me this good horse to the stables, sahib; I am overweary.
From Rung Ho! by Mundy, Talbot
I am overweary for the road; let Simwa find it.
From The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts by Austin, Mary Hunter
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 Heimburg, W.
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
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 feared she was overwearied with watching and her long attendance on my mother, for her face was pale and she had a headache.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various
He was much calmer now, though overwearied with the strain of his many journeys.
From The Wendigo by Blackwood, Algernon
I know how you must have been overwearied with long hours of watching.
From Fifty Famous People by Baldwin, James
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 Savage, Richard
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