Lexicographical Neighbors of Overliers
Literary usage of Overliers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society by Gypsy Lore Society (1889)
"9, was passed in which " overliers and masterful beggars " are described as going
about the country with " horses, hunds, and other goods" (Marwick, ..."
2. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1885)
"But the 'overliers and masterful beggars,' described in an Act of 1449 as going
about the country with 'horses, hundes, and uther gudes,'were probably ..."
3. The Course of Creation by John Anderson (1851)
"... the primary granites, and the basaltic lavas of comparatively recent times.
The granite is flanked on the south and west by immense overliers of gneiss. ..."
4. Gypsy Folk-tales by Francis Hindes Groome (1899)
"and Gypsies probably were the overliers and masterful beggars whom an Act of 1449
describes as going about the country with 'horses, ..."
5. A Treatise on Hemp, Including a Comprehensive Account of the Best Modes of by Robert Wissett (1808)
"... at least five feet above the ground, and laying over them small overliers of
wood and open flakes or hurdles : upon the same spread the Hemp, ..."
6. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"... or very possibly fifty-six years earlier, for an act of 1449 refers'to '
overliers and masterful l>eggars ' as going about the country with ' horses, ..."
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