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Examples
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An 'I know the hurt of trudgin' through a field o'errun with stubble;
The Path to Home 1920
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Say, had my son so keen desire, that region to o'errun?
Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1880
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The poet throws off intellectual restraint, and "lets his illumined being o'errun" with music and song.
Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems Matthew Arnold 1855
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'I will bandy with thee in faction, I will o'errun thee with policy, I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways,' the Jester who brought their challenge said.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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From their numbers and strength, that the land was o'errun with 'em,
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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Day after day she'll fill the can, until the milk o'errun. "
Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus
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"Jupiter, -- it's not common; but the town's o'errun with Bobbies and
The Grey Woman and other Tales Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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I will o'errun thee with policy; therefore tremble, and depart. '"
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil Frank E. Smedley 1835
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