Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmild
Literary usage of Overmild
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"For that you're likely to be overmild, And treat a ruffian like a naughty child,
Of this there seems small danger, when you say That theft's as bad as ..."
2. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"A rule is needed to apportion pain, Nor let you scourge, when you should only cane.
For that you're likely to be overmild, And treat a ruffian ..."
3. Younger American Poets, 1830-1890 by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Goodridge Bliss Roberts (1891)
"Yea, all your hearts Of beauty, and sweet righteous lovers large: Aurelius fine,
oft superfine ; mild saint A Kempis, overmild; Epictetus, Whiles low in ..."
4. A Study in Southern Poetry: For Use in Schools, Colleges and the Library by Henry Jerome Stockard (1911)
"Yea, all you hearts Of beauty, and sweet righteous lovers large: ™ Aurelius fine,
oft superfine; mild Saint A Kempis, overmild; Epictetus, Whiles low in ..."
5. A Study in Southern Poetry, for Use in Schools, Colleges and Library: For by Henry Jerome Stockard (1911)
"Yea, all you hearts Of beauty, and sweet righteous lovers large: 70 Aurelius
fine, oft superfine; mild Saint A Kempis, overmild; Epictetus, Whiles low in ..."
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