Lexicographical Neighbors of Overborn
Literary usage of Overborn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Common Law of England: And An Analysis of the Civil Part by Matthew Hale (1820)
"... who was indeed favoured by the nobility, but being an infant, was overborn by
the power of Harold, who thereupon began to set up for himself. ..."
2. Memoirs of the Kings of France, of the Race of Valois: Interspersed with by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1777)
"... and wife advice was overborn by the young hero's martial fury. ... overborn by
numbers; only about twenty gentlemen had accompanied him, among whom was ..."
3. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1863)
"Those to whom it is prejudicial learn that means exist of overborn- ing its
authority ; and similar suits are multiplied, until it becomes powerless. ..."
4. Children's Books and Reading by William Finch Allen, Montrose Jonas Moses (1907)
"... and reborn, and overborn; battles were waged for and against him, just as they
have only recently been waged for and against the Elsie books. ..."
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