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Definition of Overstrewed
1. overstrew [v] - See also: overstrew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstrewed
Literary usage of Overstrewed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1907)
"... onely so big as a man may creepe into it, and when it is closed up with a
planke, and overstrewed with earth is very hard to be found out by strangers, ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1907)
"... onely so big as a man may creepe into it, and when it is closed up with a
planke, and overstrewed with earth is very hard to be found out by strangers, ..."
3. Selected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Lee (1904)
"How near God sate and judged the judges there," — Desire upon the pavement
overstrewed To cast my violets with as reverent care, And prove that all the ..."
4. A Year of Consolation by Fanny Kemble (1847)
"Far, underneath the blue pine wood, Between its massive porphyry stems, The mossy
ground we overstrewed With ruby-colored gems. The slender heath spires ..."
5. The Highlands of Æthiopia by William Cornwallis Harris (1844)
"A second low belt of hills, gypsum and anhydrite, succeeded by limestone overstrewed
with basaltic boulders, forms the western bank of the molten sea, ..."
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