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For when the way of pleasuring, and displeasuring, lieth by the favorite, it is impossible any other should be overgreat.

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In practical use this overgreat sensibility proves to be a fault.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 Various

A vague sadness touches his mood, and this pensive moment goes far toward gaining back to him the sympathy which his overgreat sturdiness in dealing death had perhaps forfeited.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

In the New Testament the overgreat emphasis which he thought James placed on works as against faith caused him to depreciate this Epistle and to question its apostolic authorship.

Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation 1904

Then he made to enquire and to take all christian men, and without examination made them to be tormented with overgreat torments.

The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

For the inhabitants of that region used baths and ointments for the overgreat burning and heat of the sun.

The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900

London is a great and grievous city; and mayhappen when ye come thither it shall seem to you overgreat to deal with, when ye remember the little townships and the cots ye came from.

A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson 1886

London is a great and grievous city; and mayhappen when ye come thither it shall seem to you overgreat to deal with, when ye remember the little townships and the cots ye came from.

A Dream of John Ball; and, a king's lesson William Morris 1865

Abiding on this wise, it befell (even as we see it happen all day long that, how much soever things may please, they grow irksome, an one have overgreat plenty thereof) that Restagnone, who had much loved

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

The causes of superstition are: pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies; excess of outward and pharisaical holiness; overgreat reverence of traditions, which cannot but load the church; the stratagems of prelates, for their own ambition and lucre; the favoring too much of good intentions, which openeth the gate to conceits and novelties; the taking an aim at divine matters, by human, which cannot but breed mixture of imaginations: and, lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters.

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