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Definition of Overbeating
1. overbeat [v] - See also: overbeat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbeating
Literary usage of Overbeating
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 Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"... the moonlight with the throng Of gondolas — and to the busy hum Of cheerful
creatures, whose most sinful deeds Were but the overbeating of the heart. ..."
2. Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys by William Ernest Henley (1892)
"... whose most sinful deeds Were but the overbeating of the heart, And flow of
too much happiness, which needs The aid of age to turn its course apart From ..."
3. English Odes by Edmund Gosse (1881)
"... whose most sinful deeds Were but the overbeating of the heart, And flow of
too much happiness, which needs The aid of age to turn its course apart From ..."
4. Little Masterpieces of English Poetry edited by Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig (1905)
"... whose most sinful deeds Were but the overbeating of the heart, And flow of
too much happiness, which needs The aid of age to turn its course apart From ..."
5. With Byron in Italy: A Selection of the Poems and Letters of Lord Byron by George Gordon Byron Byron, Anna Benneson McMahan (1907)
"... whose most sinful deeds Were but the overbeating of the heart, And flow of
too much happiness, which needs The aid of age to turn its course apart From ..."
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