Literary notes about Overladen (AI summary)
The term “overladen” is employed in literature to depict an excess or burden, both tangible and abstract. Writers use it to describe physical overload, such as a ship stuffed with cargo [1, 2, 3] or trees and buildings embellished beyond necessity [4, 5], while also applying it metaphorically to emotions—a heart weighed down by grief or sentiment [6, 7, 8]. Additionally, the word can accentuate a style that is overly ornate or detailed, suggesting that beauty or narrative drama may be overshadowed by superfluity [9, 10, 11]. This multifaceted usage allows “overladen” to resonate on various levels, evoking images of abundance that can be both a physical impediment and a symbolic reflection of emotional or artistic saturation.
- With a heavy heart he now left Tcherkin, and the road being bad and intricate, and the camels overladen, his party proceeded very slowly.
— from The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African Traveller by Head, Francis Bond, Sir - ] Law XVII Inasmuch as the ships of the Filipinas line have been overladen, many have been wrecked and
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century - He must see that the cargo is well and sufficiently stored in accordance with law and that the ship is not overladen.
— from The Law of the Sea A manual of the principles of admiralty law for students, mariners, and ship operators by George W. (George Walton) Dalzell - Up the white marble stairs, into stately halls overladen with gilding, the walls crowded with paintings in cumbrous but resplendent frames.
— from In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould - The branches of overladen fruit trees are sometimes propped up with long poles to keep them from breaking.
— from Among the Trees at Elmridge by Ella Rodman Church - my overladen heart followed them as they glided out to the sea—distance, space, blank, and void and far.
— from The Days of My Life: An Autobiography by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant - But, O! for the maiden who mourns for that chief, With heart overladen and rending with grief!
— from Successful Recitations - The tears had relieved the overladen heart.
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - Moore's Oriental romance, Lalla Rookh , 1817, is overladen with ornament and with a sugary sentiment that clogs the palate.
— from Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - His story is full of technical defects—for one thing, it is overladen with melodrama and sentimentality.
— from Prejudices, First Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken - His tales are overladen with detail and superfluity of minute description.
— from Maxim Gorki by Hans Ostwald
