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- verb Simple past of
oversow .
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Examples
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But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision
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But while men were asleep, his enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat and went his way.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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[78: 1] "When men were a sleepe, his enemy came and oversowed Cockle among the wheate, and went his way."
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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48 57, K. NoRDSTRAND, an iilanc! of Denmark, in the duchy of Slelwick, which was entiiely oversowed in 1634. '
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