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Definition of Overspilling
1. overspill [v] - See also: overspill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overspilling
Literary usage of Overspilling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the by Upton Sinclair (1915)
"They held carouse in every boozing den, slatternly, unkempt, bleary-eyed, and
tousled, leering and gibbering, overspilling with foulness and corruption, ..."
2. The People of the Abyss by Jack London (1903)
"They held carouse in every boozing ken, slatternly, unkempt, bleary-eyed, and
tousled, leering and gibbering, overspilling with foulness and corruption, ..."
3. The Conflict of Colour: The Threatened Upheaval Throughout the World by Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale (1910)
"For that there will be some day an overflow, an overspilling of black men, seems
tolerably certain. By the end of the present century there should certainly ..."
4. In London Town by Frank Berkeley Smith (1906)
"To him the waves were of molten gold, the ships treasuries of color overspilling
their riches as did the Venetian galleys; not the squalor, the reek, ..."
5. Union, Disunion, and Reunion: A Letter to General Franklin Pierce, Ex by John Louis O'Sullivan (1862)
"That no earthly power can prevent the necessary overspilling of this vast growth
of our ei- pansive race over all Mexico and Central America. ..."
6. Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia by Fu-chen Lo, Yue-man Yeung (1996)
"overspilling was such that, by 1970, these housing estates were accommodating
more than 255000 persons outside the gazetted area of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia, ..."
7. Landscapes of Eastern Provence by John Underwood, Pat Underwood (2002)
"overspilling with day- trippers, Moustiers is best seen very early or late in
the day. Its magnificent setting cannot be appreciated from ..."
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