Throughout December they poured in on the afflicted city, already overtaxed.
"The Crisis, Volume 6"
Winston Churchill
"I am afraid you have overtaxed yourself rather," I said, in conventional phrase; "I'm afraid you're in pain."
"To-morrow?"
Victoria Cross
Even where the heart valves have been seriously attacked, as in rheumatism, they will often recover almost completely if you keep at rest, and your heart is not overtaxed by the strain of heavy, muscular work, before it has entirely recovered.
"A Handbook of Health"
Woods Hutchinson