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Definition of Overarches
1. overarch [v] - See also: overarch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overarches
Literary usage of Overarches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"HEAVEN overarches earth and sea, Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness. Heaven overarches
you and me: A little while and we shall be — Please God—where there is ..."
2. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"HEAVEN overarches earth and sea. Earth-sadness and sea-bitterness. ... Heaven
overarches you and me, And all earth's gardens and her graves. ..."
3. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
"Christina Georgina Rossetti [1830-1894] "HEAVEN overarches EARTH AND SEA" HEAVEN
... Heaven overarches you and me: A little while and we shall be—Please ..."
4. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1918)
"Heaven overarches you and me: A little while and we shall be— Please God—where
there is no more sea Nor barren wilderness. Heaven overarches you and me, ..."
5. The Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave (1902)
"By rending lightnings,—over all the noise Of thunders and the earth that quaked
and bow'd LXXXIII A. ff Shaughnessy Heaven overarches earth and sea, ..."
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