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Definition of Overslipped
1. overslip [v] - See also: overslip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overslipped
Literary usage of Overslipped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Narratives of Early Virginia, 1606-1625 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1907)
"seek to loose the love of my friends, by taking this course: I know them all,
and have not rashly overslipped any. But shal it please God thus to dispose of ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"... friends by taking this course: I know them all, and have not rashly overslipped
any. But shall it please God thus to dispose of mee (which I earnestly ..."
3. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1846)
"... and desire your speedy concurrence therein, that this opportunity may not be
overslipped for the effecting thereof by a ready meanes of transportation ..."
4. History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1900)
"We charge you all," she wrote with her own hand to the commissioners," that no
word be overslipped by them, that may touch our honor and greatness, ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"... by taking this course: I know them all, and have not rashly overslipped any.
But shall it please God thus to dispose of me (which I earnestly desire to ..."
6. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"He was sorry,'' he said, " that her Majesty had overslipped her best opportunity,
that it had not pleased her to enter sooner ..."
7. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"NN Your most obedient servant, A further Account of the Prince's Army, in a Letter
sent from dated Nov. 24. HAD I not insensibly overslipped my time the ..."
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