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
Send me this good horse to the stables, sahib; I am overweary.
From Rung Ho! by Mundy, Talbot
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
"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
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.
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
She had slept profoundly, overwearied with her pilgrimage, and soothed by that deep lulling sense of quiet which comes over one, when, after long and weary toils, some auspicious goal is at length reached.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various
August Travellers palpitate; nevertheless overwearied Nature sinks every one of them into a kind of sleep.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
I go home at night overwearied, quite faint, and then to cards with my father, who will not let me enjoy a meal in peace.
From Charles Lamb by Cornwall, Barry
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
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