Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdear
Literary usage of Overdear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1905)
"... which can neither add to length nor happiness of life; that thy whole self
art an overdear bargain, | if bought of the Devil, at the expense of a deadly ..."
2. Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity by Society of Antiquaries of London (1840)
"Native land is overdear to every man, if he there his rights and befitting (honour)
may enjoy in his blood oftest with increase. Day is the Lord's messenger ..."
3. A History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen Victoria by Benjamin Terry (1901)
"To national England, however, drawing herself together after a century and a half
of feudal strife, it seemed that she was paying overdear for her loyalty ..."
4. A Dictionary of the First Or Oldest Words in the English Language: From the by Herbert Coleridge (1862)
"34 103 Overal, adv. RG. 375 Overcast, adj. (of the sky). 1415 B. Overcome, ». a.
RG. 401, 454, 548 overdear, adj. = very costly. RG. ..."
5. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"overdear of threepence.—Clarke. You 'll give a groat raking.—K. As fine as
sixpence.—P. Robin, May, 1700. As fine as his hands can make him.—Clarke. ..."
6. Rome as Described by Great Writers by Esther Singleton (1906)
"... furnished apartments of all sizes and suitable to all purses afford that
comfortable accommodation which was lacking or overdear in Hawthorne's time. ..."
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