overlabored

In consequence of this overlabored plan _Sartor_ has no plan at all.

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

Again, work which is overlabored, or where delicate details have been attempted on a coarse-grained wood, or finally, work which, although done with success in the matter of mechanical dexterity, is deficient in feeling for its woody possibilities, are all likely to fail in the matter of texture.

Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship George Jack 1894

You must be resolved to labor, and to lose, yourself, before you can rescue this overlabored lost sheep, and offer it alive to its Master.

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

One shortcoming of Mr. Strickland's arrangements was that they felt, by contrast, overlabored.

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One shortcoming of Mr. Strickland's arrangements was that they felt, by contrast, overlabored.

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-- This late period has also brought into action a new expedient, worthy to stand, in the province of education, parallel and rival to the most useful modern inventions in the mechanical departments; an organization for schools, by which, instead of one or two overlabored agents upon a mass of reluctant subjects, that whole mass itself shall be animated into a system of reciprocal agency.

An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance John Foster 1806

For whose use, entertainment, or instruction are all those overstrained and overlabored proceedings in council, in negotiation, and in speeches in Parliament intended?

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763