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Definition of Overslipping
1. overslip [v] - See also: overslip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overslipping
Literary usage of Overslipping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1843)
"... or design of treachery, and imputed the slow managing the business, at his
first coming into the west, and overslipping some opportunities of advantage, ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1907)
"... wherein oftentimes the overslipping, and not taking of six houres advantage
of winde when it hath served, ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1907)
"... wherein oftentimes the overslipping, and not taking of six houres advantage
of winde when it hath served, ..."
4. The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and by Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Odet de La Noue, Henry Smith (1880)
"... By overslipping their peculiar season : Delay breeds danger, every day doth
prove ; It quencheth hottest, killeth hearty love. ..."
5. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... author^ hath of late published a pamphlet,^, called Avis A; overslipping so
many praiseworthy matrons, hath registred the meanest. ..."
6. A Study of English Prose Writers: A Laboratory Method by John Scott Clark (1898)
"... and the easiness of erring, or overslipping in such a boundless and vast
search, if they may not convince those that are so strongly persuaded thereof; ..."
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