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Examples
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Yea dry'd him o're a fire hot, the more to work their will.
John Barleycorn Carla 2008
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Ah! poor maidens, luckless brides, come weep, for Ilium is now but a ruin; and I, like some mother-bird that o're her fledglings screams, will begin the strain; how different from that song I sang to the gods in days long past, as I leaned on Priam's staff, and beat with my foot in Phrygian time to lead the dance!
The Trojan Women 2008
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Ah! poor maidens, luckless brides, come weep, for Ilium is now but a ruin; and I, like some mother-bird that o're her fledglings screams, will begin the strain; how different from that song I sang to the gods in days long past, as I leaned on Priam's staff, and beat with my foot in Phrygian time to lead the dance!
The Trojan Women 2008
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Yea dry'd him o're a fire hot, the more to work their will.
Archive 2008-08-01 Carla 2008
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She'll be flyin 'o're my home in about three hours time.
Early Mornin' Rain Gordon Lightfoot 1965
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No Wounds, for all o're his Trappings so sumptuous
Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry Edmund Goldsmid
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Her hair spread all o're her shoulders, and seem'd in easie curls to wanton in the air.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
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_ Strange! sure thou art all o're a Mystery, and form'st these
The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris
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Whose Faith stands o're him for a Hearse, and hath
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Are smaller _splints_: his _ribs_ are _laths_ daub'd o're
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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