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  • Meanwhile, Ed Rollins is killing in the overscoring race by giving Palin a 43-1 (still can't read second digit) advantage. over twice anyone else's top score, though Hilary Rosen is quickly catching up, giving Biden a 3 (something) -13 advantage over Palin.

    Live Blogging the Palin-Biden Punditry [Updated]: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008

  • Strether, watching, after his habit, and overscoring with thought, positively had moments of his own in which he found himself sorry for her — occasions on which she affected him as a person seated in a runaway vehicle and turning over the question of a possible jump.

    The Ambassadors 2003

  • Inquire of the seas of every zone, inquire of the seaman overscoring the main -- Behold "-- he points at the ship whose blood-red sails are set and whose ghastly crew show uncannily active in preparations for departure;" Behold and recognise this ship, terror of every pious soul ....

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • Strether, watching, after his habit, and overscoring with thought, positively had moments of his own in which he found himself sorry for her -- occasions on which she affected him as a person seated in a runaway vehicle and turning over the question of a possible jump.

    The Ambassadors Henry James 1879

  • The form—just as he’d typed it, errors, overscoring, and all—read:

    Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

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