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Definition of Overwearied
1. overweary [v] - See also: overweary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overwearied
Literary usage of Overwearied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Examination of the Shelley Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library by Blaise Pascal, Zacharie Tourneur, Didier Anzieu, Stoke Newington (London, England). Public Libraries Committee, John Humphreys Whitfield, Charles Dealtry Locock, Bodleian Library (1903)
"strings (!) BC. 230 that] which B. 242 white, green] white <$• green (!)B Rossetti (ex
con;.). 263 Like to a child overwearied] Like a child ..."
2. The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1913)
"It was not physical exercise that overwearied him, — for except that he sometimes
wrought a little with a hoe, or paced the garden-walk, or, ..."
3. I Give You My Word by Françoise Giroud, Claude Glayman (1903)
"... at sound Of that dear voice, would strain My ears to catch Its every tone,
and watch The nimble hand that plied The shuttle of the overwearied loom. ..."
4. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... round the animal's neck, whereby it becomes distressed, and after ineffectual
trial for relief, being overwearied, looks sedentary and melancholy. ..."
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