Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcivil
Literary usage of Overcivil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... an enterprising and excellent colonist ; reticent of speech, opinionated, and
not overcivil to strangers; theological to a degree, and argumentative; ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1820)
"... .overcivil, as over criminal cases. if this commitment be established, what
shall prevent the renewal of this claim ?—There are many cases of a civil ..."
3. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"... or overcivil, That every man with him was God or Devil. In squandering wealth
was his peculiar art: Nothing went unrewarded but desert. ..."
4. Memoirs of King George the Third: His Life and Reign by John Heneage Jesse (1902)
"A sailor standing with some others on the forecastle, and observing what was
going on, whispered his messmate: ' The young gentleman a'n't overcivil, ..."
5. The New General and Mining Telegraph Code by Charles Algernon Moreing, Thomas Neal (1907)
"On the road to [of the roads Overcharge Will this include making roads overcivil .
To include making of roads ..."
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