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Definition of Outslept
1. outsleep [v] - See also: outsleep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outslept
Literary usage of Outslept
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Maya: A Drama by William Dudley Foulke (1911)
"I have outslept the day, outslept the night. Ah, but how sweet the rest after
long toil! If but a friend I had in these grim wilds! How green the pool, ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Never did babe, that had outslept his wont, Rush, with such eager straining, to
the milk, As I toward the water; bending me, To make the better mirrors of ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1916)
"Drawn from his refuge in some lonely elm That age or injury has hollowed deep,
Where on his bed of wool and matted leaves He has outslept the winter, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... have outslept the storm ;—for 'twill indeed arrive,— A fearful night [•— My
night is not yet come.—When the winds now!, I may not rest—Hark, ..."
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