over-driven

According to Ms. Abbott, field slaves could expect to survive only seven years on average; they died, remarked one 19th-century observer, like "over-driven horses."

Trouble by the Spoonful Fergus M. Bordewich 2010

According to Ms. Abbott, field slaves could expect to survive only seven years on average; they died, remarked one 19th-century observer, like "over-driven horses."

Trouble by the Spoonful Fergus M. Bordewich 2010

According to Ms. Abbott, field slaves could expect to survive only seven years on average; they died, remarked one 19th-century observer, like "over-driven horses."

Trouble by the Spoonful Fergus M. Bordewich 2010

Whether temperatures rise in that amount in the context of an over-driven, governed, tera-watt scale, constructal, multistable heat engine with a large number of known and unknown forcings and feedbacks is a very different question, one where theory is not much help.

Inhofe, UCAR and NCAR « Climate Audit 2006

Others there were who seemed incapable of forming an opinion on the subject, or of entertaining either hope, confidence, or fear, but who, foaming with thirst and fatigue, stumbled along like over-driven oxen, lost to every thing but their present sense of wretchedness, and without having any distinct idea whether they were led to the shambles or to the pasture.

Old Mortality 2004

But now he was a good deal knocked up, and I was a little frightened fearing that I had over-driven him under the heat of the sun.

Tales of all countries 2004

I often saw him hard-worked, yet seldom over-driven, and never irritated, confused, or oppressed.

Villette 2003

"That woman's over-driven," said Father Brown; "that's the kind of woman that does her duty for twenty years, and then does something dreadful."

The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

He slid to the ground, breathing heavily, and Kim could hear the over-driven heart bump and check.

Kim 2003

In all that he enjoins he should be discreet and moderate, meditating on the prudence of holy Jacob, who says, If I shall cause my flocks to be over-driven, they will all die in one day.

The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964