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Definition of Overawes
1. overawe [v] - See also: overawe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overawes
Literary usage of Overawes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With by William Smith (1897)
"Rejoicings at Athens for Philip's death. Movements in Greece. § 3. Alexander overawes
the malcontents, and is appointed generalissimo for the Persian war. ..."
2. Life of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell, Johann Georg Pfister (1841)
"... and make the Romans swear to support it—He is invested with the supreme
executive power as Roman Tribune —He overawes the Roman Barons—Establishes peace ..."
3. Life and Times of Petrarch: With Notices of Boccacio and His Illustrious by Thomas Campbell, Johann Georg Pfister (1843)
"... and make the Romans swear to support it—He is invested with the supreme
executive power as Roman Tribune —He overawes the Roman Barons—Establishes peace ..."
4. A History of Greece, from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith, George Washington Greene (1890)
"ALEXANDER THE GREAT. g 1. Education of Alexander. § 2. Rejoicings at Athens for
Philip's death. Movements in Greece. §3. Alexander overawes the malcontents ..."
5. Mathematical Questions and Solutions (1892)
"Fail ye—by all that overawes The soul of fiddling knave, My barber from your
guzzling jaws Shall ears full fifty shave." No little sport Had city and court ..."
6. The Land of Promise; Or, My Impressions of Australia by William Shaw (1854)
"... Repressed — Right overawes Might—Rifling a Tent—Stopping an Escort —Social
Life at the Mines—Hardships and Earnings —Romance and Reality. ..."
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