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Definition of Overhard
1. too hard [adj] - See also: hard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overhard
Literary usage of Overhard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. College Life: Essays Reprinted from "School, College, and Character" and by Le Baron Russell Briggs (1904)
"Milton, to be sure, patient toiler and conqueror though he was, cried in his
pain," God loves not to plough out the heart of our endeavors with overhard and ..."
2. School, College and Character by Le Baron Russell Briggs (1919)
"Milton, to be sure, patient toiler and conqueror though he was, cried in his
pain, " God loves not to plough out the heart of our endeavors with overhard ..."
3. A practical commentary on the Gospel according to st. Mark by James Morison (1882)
"... an alternative translation or gloss, an admirable description of the vice,
overhard ... (overhard keeping of goods). It is one of the subtlest of vices, ..."
4. The Transition from School to College by Le Baron Russell Briggs, William James (1904)
"Milton, to be sure, patient toiler and conqueror though he was, cried in his
pain," God loves not to plough out the heart of our endeavors with overhard and ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"Sir Thomas More, in his Utopian Commonwealth, 6" as he will have none idle, so
will he have no man labour overhard, to be toiled out like a horse, ..."
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