How To Use O'er In A Sentence
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Far from the bucolic paradise of popular myth, with lowing herds winding slowly o'er the lea, modern farms have as much romance as a widget factory.
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Thoas rules [8] the land, o'er barbarians, [Thoas,] who guiding his foot swift as the pinion, has arrived at this epithet [of Thoas, i.e. _the swift_] on account of his fleetness of foot.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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Sugar sop is na o'er digestible to th 'best o' 'em.
That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
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Twa bairnies, twa callans, that skelp o'er the leas,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
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Lo, neither do dolphins of the brine fare on land, nor bulls on the deep, but dreadless dost thou rush o'er land and sea alike, thy hooves serving thee for oars.
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose
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Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow, or shower;
The Iliad of Homer (1873)
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In brighter mazes the relucent ftream Plays o'er the mead.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
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Thou think'st them to o'ertake, Thou thinkest to overtake them, for all thou'rt fettered fast; while thou bearest Thy sins from thy desire Follies, which slay thee whatso do hinder thee, perdie. way thou farest.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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And look o'er the field -- yes! and "hanker" for more.
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
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But they, not sure of the voice they heard, sprang up and peered all round; then once again his bidding came; and when the daughters of Cadmus knew it was the Bacchic god in very truth that called, swift as doves they dirted off in cager haste, his mother Agave and her sisters dear and all the Bacchanals; through torrent glen, o'er boulders huge they bounded on, inspired with madness by the god.
The Bacchantes
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Blue as the veins o'er the Madonna's breast," from which the beautiful pigment called ultramarine is extracted.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
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`The world's great empress on the Egyptian plain, that spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states.
THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
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All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels.
Set in Silver
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'T' maister nobbut just buried, and Sabbath no o'ered, und t 'sound o' t 'gospel still i' yer lugs, and ye darr be laiking!
Wuthering Heights
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The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But time and earth case-harden us to live; the feeblest sense is trusted most: the child feels God a moment, ichors o'er the place, plays on and grows to be a man like us.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
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I shall return at night, and ‘with love's light wings… o'er perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out.’
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Nor pass the tentie curious lad, Who o'er the ingle hangs his head, And begs of neighbours books to read; For hence arise Thy country's sons, who far are spread, Baith bold and wise.
The Life of Thomas Telford
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The Grammy winner, 30, botched the lyrics, mistakenly singing "what so proudly we watched, at the twilight's last reaming" instead of "o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
Christina Aguilera Fumbles the Lyrics, Black Eyed Peas Light Up Super Bowl XLV
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As I heard "The Voice that breathed o'er Eden" and saw the bride of twenty-five advance up the aisle to meet the bridegroom of forty-five awaiting her deeply flushed, in a distorted white waistcoat -- I had mercilessly alluded to his white waistcoat as an error of judgment -- I gave myself up for lost; _and I was lost_.
The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy
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(Old) Boleslav, where Wenceslaus gained his degree of martyrdom, is a sedate little town near the banks of the Labe (known as Elbe in Germany) dozing among orchards and lush meadows and o'ershadowed by tall elm-trees.
From a Terrace in Prague
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A good choice for the "gloomy days" of winter, readers will no doubt think of the tunnels they're coursing through when they consider the "o'er darkened ways made for our searching":
John Lundberg: New York's Subway Replaces Poetry With More Ads
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The way the adjective signals terror of the noun, adornment terror of the body: in words, like weeds, I'll wrap you o'er.
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Far from the bucolic paradise of popular myth, with lowing herds winding slowly o'er the lea, modern farms have as much romance as a widget factory.
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The letterbox was brimming o'er when we arrived home this eve.
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The whole village is in a flustration; and I just came o'er-by, to find out from you the long and the short of everything.
A Knight of the Nets
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On lentisk leaves; or lie them down, ripe strawberries o'er their head.
Theocritus, translated into English Verse
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So _Father_ saith he would ride o'er himself to _Ambleside_, and give them better welcome than to send but a letter back: and _Mother_ did desire her most loving commendations unto them all, and bade us all be hasteful and help to make ready the guest-chambers.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
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So saying, he called the banns; and, says the old ballad, lest three times should not be enough, he published them nine times o'er.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
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If aught grateful or acceptable can penetrate the silent graves from our dolour, Calvus, when with sweet regret we renew old loves and beweep the lost friendships of yore, of a surety not so much doth Quintilia mourn her untimely death as she doth rejoice o'er thy constant love.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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`The world's great empress on the Egyptian plain, that spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states.
THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
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Haemon's marriage debars him from being the victim, for he is no longer single; for even if he have not consummated his marriage, yet is he betrothed; but this tender youth, consecrated to the city's service, might by dying rescue his country; and bitter will he make the return of Adrastus and his Argives, flinging o'er their eyes death's dark pall, and will glorify Thebes.
The Phoenissae
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An 'yet that was not all, for hard by stood a tall imperial shape o' a woman, all arrayed in white, wi 'a great veil o' finest lace worn o'er a shrood.
The Lady of the Shroud
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It is founded on an older ditty, beginning, "I'll rowe thee o'er the lea-rig.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
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Tempe, shrined around in shadowy woods o'erhanging,
Poems and Fragments
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Let me go, sir, or I'll knock you o'er the mazard.
Othello
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As long as mist hangs o'er the mountains, the deeds of the brave will be remembered.
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The paitrick whirrin 'o'er the ley. [partridge, meadow]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
The Second Part of King Henry IV
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It came o'er my ear like the sweet sound of newly arriving Bard freshman eager to experience this spectacular operatic production comedy, romance and drama set against Strauss's brilliant orchestral score, whilst relishing other rich works of literature and honing their writing skills in this, their first fantastical college orientation.
C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food....
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A good choice for the "gloomy days" of winter, readers will no doubt think of the tunnels they're coursing through when they consider the "o'er darkened ways made for our searching":
John Lundberg: New York's Subway Replaces Poetry With More Ads
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My breath would grow short, and I shivered all o'er.
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I heard a sound of woe, a mournful wail, the voice of one crying aloud in her anguish; yea, such a cry of woe as Naiad nymph might send ringing o'er the hills, while to her cry the depths of rocky grots re-echo her screams at the violence of
Helen
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For me, for me, in festal halls it shall kindle o'er thy face!
Records of Woman, With Other Poems
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Last year, Christina Aguilera flubbed the lyrics and sang "what so proudly we watched, at the twilight's last reaming" instead of "o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
Kelly Clarkson Drafted to Perform National Anthem at Super Bowl
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I'se stod in our do'er en 'yeard de hahd licks, en screams ob de ones dat wuz bein' whup'd, en I'd tell mah Missis, "Listen ter dat!
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Tennessee Narratives
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He loves me, reverend father, "and a transient glow passed o'er the sallow, cheek of the religieux; 'with all the energy of his grateful nature loves me, for what he terms the beneficence of charity, what I term the bare impulse of duty.
The confessional of Valombre
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The lines "Friend to the friendless" &c. which you may think "rudely disbranched" from the Chatterton will patch in with the Man of Ross, where they were once quite at Home, with 2 more which I recollect "and o'er the dowried virgin's snowy cheek bad bridal love suffuse his blushes meek!" very beautiful.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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_parchment_? that parchment, being _scribbled o'er_, should undo a man?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
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The way the adjective signals terror of the noun, adornment terror of the body: in words, like weeds, I'll wrap you o'er.
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Sae saying, I gared him climb a rape by whilk he gat abune the riggin o 'the bield, then steeking to the door thro' whilk he gaed, I jimp had trailed doun the rape, when in rinned twa red coat chiels, who couping ilka ane i 'their gait begun to touzle out the ben, and the de'il gaed o'er Jock Wabster.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
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The letterbox was brimming o'er when we arrived home this eve.
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It ascends me into the brain ... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes; which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
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They kiss'd his cauld hands; and a smile o'er his face
Letter 236
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But later, the morn after Rupert used his fire in his room for the first time, I told him what I had dreamt; for, lassie, my dear, I saw ye as bride at that weddin 'in fine lace o'er yer shrood, and orange-flowers and ithers in yer black hair; an' I saw the stars in yer bonny een -- the een I love.
The Lady of the Shroud
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Agin we gullide o'er the foamin biller like a arrer shot from a cross-bow, an culleave the briny main.
Lost in the Fog
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The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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And the star to guide us onward is now gleaming o'er the steep;
Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent
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Oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free the home of the brave.
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The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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_ 'But like an _eagre_ rode in triumph o'er the tide.'
Beowulf
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The indecision brings its own delays, and days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; what you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness as genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To o'er - top old Pelion, or the skyish head Of blue Olympus.
The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators
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Gold, thou mayst tell me, hath o'er things like these
Ion
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_ The visitor will not give him o'er so] Why Dr. Warburton should change _visitor_ to _'vizer_ for _adviser_, I cannot discover.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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We return in October with possibly the best line ups you shivoo'ers have ever seen and maybe the best in the Midlands too.
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How can Santa visit, when there's no roof o'er your head?
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'isseif loose, somegate and marches oot into yard, o'erturns milkpail, and prods owd pigs i' ribs.
Bob, Son of Battle
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When morning o'er the valley springs awes: hawes awthorns: hawthorns blea: bleak
Laudator Temporis Acti
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And there I lie one time upon the strand, another in the salt sea's surge, drifting ever up and down upon the billows, unwept, unburied; but now am I hovering o'er the head of my dear mother Hecuba, a disembodied spirit, keeping my airy station these three days, ever since my poor mother came from Troy to linger here in
Hecuba
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While claver [clover] blooms white o'er the ley [pasture]
Country Lassie
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_Cast the glamer o'er her_, caused deception of sight.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV.
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How can Santa visit, when there's no roof o'er your head?
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(as _Milly_ saith touching the 139th Psalm) to have turned o'er the two leaves together that I might not see this sixth chapter of _Hebrews_: yet did I never see it without a diseaseful creeping feeling, belike, coming o'er me.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
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And I wonder me here in Folsom, while democracy dreams its enchantments o'er the twentieth century world, whether there, in the rock-hewn crypt of that secret, desert valley, the bones still abide that once were mine and that stiffened my animated body when I was an Aryan master high-stomached to command.
Chapter 21
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For this it is that woman has those special finer endowments which in all ages have distinguished her from man, and foreshown a higher life for her in some future -- some Beulah, visible to eyes that could o'ershoot the bounds of the passing age.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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_) This scar, this deep, _deep_ scar, that with a crimson cross o'erseams your hand; speak, how gained you first this dreadful mark?
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
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'Hail brineless seas! o'er timeworn Rocks released,
To Immagination
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O'er the muir, amang the heather," Eleanor's walk had gone; and her basket was gay with gorse and broom just opening; but from grassy banks on her way she had brought the bright blue speedwell; and clematis and bryony from the hedges, and from under them wild hyacinth and white campion and crane's-bill and primroses; and a meadow she had passed over gave her one or two pretty kinds of orchis, with daisies and cowslips, and grasses of various kinds.
The Old Helmet
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`The world's great empress on the Egyptian plain, that spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states.
THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
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Christina Aguilera gives "The Star-Spangled Banner" an accidental remix during the Super Bowl pre-game, subbing "O'er the ramparts we watched/were so gallantly streaming" with the half-rehashed line "What so proudly we watched/at the twilight's last reaming.
Top Moments: Modern Family's Affair to Forget and Glee's Independent Woman
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Over hills which, resolved in stern silence, o'erlap and intwine
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
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Sae saying, I gared him climb a rape by whilk he gat abune the riggin o 'the bield, then steeking to the door thro' whilk he gaed, I jimp had trailed doun the rape, when in rinned twa red coat chiels, who couping ilka ane i 'their gait begun to touzle out the ben, and the de'il gaed o'er Jock Wabster.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
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It came o'er my ear like the sweet sound of newly arriving Bard freshman eager to experience this spectacular operatic production comedy, romance and drama set against Strauss's brilliant orchestral score, whilst relishing other rich works of literature and honing their writing skills in this, their first fantastical college orientation.
C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food....
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'One day, Mr. Penrose, as aw were peepin' through th 'hoile i' th 'warehaase dur at Betty, aw could see that there were summat wrong wi' one o 'th' warps, for hoo were reachin 'and sweatin' o'er th 'loom, an' th 'tackler were stannin' at her side, an 'a deal too near and o' for my likin ', aw con tell yo'.
Lancashire Idylls (1898)
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By cairn an 'crag, o'er moss and hagg, sae glorious was the din;
The Kielder Hunt
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But, unfortunately, should any untoward "o'er-night clishmaclaver" occasion the neglect of this duty, and the fire be left, like envy, to feed upon its own vitals, a remedy is at hand in the shape of a pan "o 'live coals" from some more provident neighbour, resident in an upper or lower "flat;" and thus without bundle-wood or "shavings," is the mischief cured.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
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Ale Water about a fortnight later in the year, as Sir Walter described him in his "Lay" as riding along the wooded path when "green hazels o'er his basnet nod," which indicated the month of September.
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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For if thou shouldst import new learning amongst dullards, thou wilt be thought a useless trifler, void of knowledge; while if thy fame in the city o'ertops that of the pretenders to cunning knowledge, thou wilt win their dislike.
Medea
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And I wonder me here in Folsom, while democracy dreams its enchantments o'er the twentieth century world, whether there, in the rock-hewn crypt of that secret, desert valley, the bones still abide that once were mine and that stiffened my animated body when I was an Aryan master high-stomached to command.
Chapter 21
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There, warm together prefs'd, the trooping deer Sleep on the new-fall'n fnows; and, fcarce his head Rais'd o'er the heapy wreath, the branching elk Lies flumbering fullen in the v/hite abyfs.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
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And o'er the broomy braes like a fairy would flee,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
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My breath would grow short, and I shivered all o'er.
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I shall return at night, and ‘with love's light wings… o'er perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out.’
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O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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A blue bird's-eye o'er dairies fine -- as she mizzled through Temple Bar, [2]
Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]
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Tha» had I fecn the vaulty top of hcav'n Figur*d quite o'er with burning meteors*
The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected
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Thou bendest o'er his forehead e'en as a lily, brimming with clear dews, that stoops in beauteous sorrow to embathe its neighbouring bud.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
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o'er the shaded billows rushed the night
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For thee, O mistress mine, I bring this woven wreath, culled from a virgin meadow, where nor shepherd dares to herd his flock nor ever scythe hath mown, but o'er the mead unshorn the bee doth wing its way in spring; and with the dew from rivers drawn purity that garden tends.
Hippolytus
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There in the gate the children gather, hanging round their mothers 'necks, and weep their piteous lamentation, "O mother, woe is me! torn from thy sight Achaeans bear me away from thee to their dark ship to row me o'er the deep to sacred Salamis or to the hill' on the Isthmus, that o'erlooks two seas, the key to the gates of Pelops.
The Trojan Women