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He may not be strong for a year or two, and must be careful not to overtask himself, but John made him see one of the greatest physicians in New York, to whom Dr. Medlicott had sent letters of introduction- as if they were needed, he said, after Jock's work at Abville.
Mr Peters," to the midshipman in charge of the second cutter, "drop in my wake, sir, if you please, and see that your men do not overtask themselves."
You cannot overtask yourself without a derangement of machinery." How reluctantly, and with what a feeling of weakness, Claire acquiesced in this decision, the reader may imagine. The morning found him something better, but not well enough to sit up. Mrs. Claire had, by this time, recovered in a measure her calmness and confidence.
The preventives mainly relied upon were holidays, gifts and festivities to create lightness of heart; overtime and overtask payments to promote zeal and satisfaction; kindliness and care to call forth loyalty in return; and the special device of crop patches to give every hand a stake in the plantation.
Even if she took the car, she would be obliged to carry it a portion of the way, and she felt that it would overtask her strength. "Don't you send bundles?" she asked. "Sometimes," said the clerk, looking superciliously at the modest attire of the poor widow, and mentally deciding that she was not entitled to much consideration.
But the thing could not, in the nature of the case, continue long. It was too late in the day and on the wrong side of the water. As the novelty wore off, people began to doubt and reason about it. Had the place been traversed by a ghost or disturbed by a witch they could have acquiesced in it very quietly; but this outlandish belief in fairies was altogether an overtask for Yankee credulity.
Also, Thedora tells me that your circumstances used to be much more affluent than they are at present. Do you wish, then, to persuade me that your whole existence has been passed in loneliness and want and gloom, with never a cheering word to help you, nor a seat in a friend's chimney-corner? Ah, kind comrade, how my heart aches for you! But do not overtask your health, Makar Alexievitch.
I feel no pain. I feel feeble only." And he strove to rise from the ground as he spoke. "Do not attempt it," said Kingsley "you are not able. Wharton, my good fellow, will you run back to town, and bring a carriage?" "It will not need," said Edgerton, striving again to rise, and staggering up with difficulty. "It will need. You must not overtask yourself. The walk is a long one before us."
When the intervention of the United Kingdom was made inevitable and practically unanimous by the brutal attack on Belgium, Canada never hesitated for a moment as to her attitude. The rights of the immediate issue were clear; the whole world's liberty was plainly at stake; the struggle promised to task, if not to overtask, every resource of the mother country.
The federal principle in America has passed through this fearful ordeal and come out stronger than ever; and we trust it will not again be put to so severe a test. But with this principle unimpaired, there is no reason why any further increase of territory or of population should overtask the resources of our government.
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