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  • Unhappy house! what two-fold sorrow doth o'ertake its halls, through heaven's ordinance!

    Hippolytus 2008

  • Oh! let me, like a courser at its speed, or a votary of Bacchus, approach the tomb! for there is something wild about this fellow's looks, who is eager to o'ertake me.

    Helen 2008

  • Likewise, it is ordained, Orestes, that thou shalt wed Hermione, at whose neck thou art pointing thy sword; Neoptolemus shall never marry her, though he thinks he will; for his death is fated to o'ertake him by a

    Orestes 2008

  • Oh! let me, like a courser at its speed, or a votary of Bacchus, approach the tomb! for there is something wild about this fellow's looks, who is eager to o'ertake me.

    Helen 2008

  • Unhappy house! what two-fold sorrow doth o'ertake its halls, through heaven's ordinance!

    Hippolytus 2008

  • Likewise, it is ordained, Orestes, that thou shalt wed Hermione, at whose neck thou art pointing thy sword; Neoptolemus shall never marry her, though he thinks he will; for his death is fated to o'ertake him by a

    Orestes 2008

  • Thou think'st them to o'ertake, Thou thinkest to overtake them, for all thou'rt fettered fast; while thou bearest

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • In their wrath they o'ertake us; the prow is deep-dark

    The Suppliants 2002

  • In their wrath they o'ertake us; the prow is deep-dark

    The Suppliants 2002

  • The difficulties in the double rhymes he overcomes by the device of inflectional endings and repetition of pronouns which although at first moderately satisfactory must eventually become monotonous: declining hasteth tired shining divesteth expired [183] sing ye make me send you bring ye o'ertake me defend you.

    Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody 1976

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