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Definition of Overbrims
1. overbrim [v] - See also: overbrim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbrims
Literary usage of Overbrims
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave (1902)
"From worldly noise and dust, In the sphere which overbrims With passion and
thought,—why, just Unable to fly, one swims ! Scarce better, they need not scorn ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1861)
"As for those cases in which the swelling passion of the poet boldly overbrims
the vase, and runs violently over into the following line; we see no reason ..."
3. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"In the sphere which overbrims With passion and thought,—why, just Unable to fly,
one swims ! By passion and thought upborne. One smiles to one's self—" They ..."
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