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Once he suggested to the surgeon that he had better examine the pulse of his patient, for he did not wish to overtask him in the investigation. The subject of the inquiry declared that his headache had almost disappeared, and he needed no indulgence on account of his health. After half an hour of questioning, Corny was sent to the ward room, and Christy was called to the captain's cabin.
There was some rifle firing after a while, and the occasional deep note of a cannon, mostly at random and the little group walked back. "I'm going to sleep, Dick," said Warner. "I've just remembered that I'm an invalid and that if I overtask myself it will be a bad thing for McClellan to-morrow. The colonel doesn't want us any longer, and so here goes." "I follow," said Pennington.
Five hundred circulating planetary bodies bridge the gap between Jupiter and Mars, the complete investigation of the movements of any one of which would overtask the energies of a lifetime.
The haughty features seemed chiseled in marble, so cold, stony was the expression. "Dear Florry! you look harassed and weary already. Why, why will you overtask your strength, merely to be called a disciple of Zeno? Surely you cannot seriously desire so insignificant an honor, if it merits that title?"
Though such an important chief, he is the meanest dressed of his subjects, is always filthy, ever greasy eternally foul about the mouth; but these are mere eccentricities: as a wise judge, he is without parallel, always has a dodge ever ready for the abstraction of cloth from the spiritless Arab merchants, who trade with Unyanyembe every year; and disposes with ease of a judicial case which would overtask ordinary men.
The French and their allies had struck a heavy blow and there was nothing left for the English and Americans to do but to strike back. It was all very simple. Day came, and at the suggestion of Willet they rested again in the thickets. Robert was not really weary, at least the spirit uplifted him, though he knew that he must not overtask the body.
He would have returned to work, but he knew that he would overtask his worn frame, and he wanted to be in condition for the battle that he believed was coming with the morrow. They had not tried to cut out at night, then they must do it by day, or die where they stood of thirst. He sat down at last on the ground, and leaned against a wagon wheel, drawing a blanket over his shoulders for warmth.
One cardinal rule in seeking either pleasure or profit is not to tire one's self. When time is limited and the opportunity may never recur, the temptation is almost overpowering: this is our only chance we must not lose it. But it is lost if we overtask the perceptions and carry away no idea with us: there is no gain, and positive harm.
Should it prove, however, that the cultivation of active exercises diminishes the proportion of time given by children to study, we can only view it as an added advantage. Every year confirms us in the conviction, that our schools, public and private, systematically overtask the brains of the rising generation.
Ben-Hur was speaking. "I will give you," he said, "an order for my property stored in the khan this side the river by the Seleucian Bridge. Bring it to me to-day, if you can. And, good Malluch if I do not overtask you " Malluch protested heartily his willingness to be of service. "Thank you, Malluch, thank you," said Ben-Hur.
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