1 This caution is necessary, to prevent the country from being overburdened with numbers.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII. 2 He possessed a good figure, a pleasing face, not overburdened with depth of thought or feeling; and his dress was that of the conventional man of fashion.
3 The carcases of both whales had dropped astern; and the head-laden ship not a little resembled a mule carrying a pair of overburdening panniers.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...