Lexicographical Neighbors of Overfast
Literary usage of Overfast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel by Arthur Conan Doyle (1914)
""Man, you are surely traveling overfast," said he. "I have heard no evidence yet
that any stranger was ever in the house at all. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1819)
"Psalm, UNTIL THIS TYRANNY BE overfast. - Another represented a Bible on the one
side of his coronet, and on the other hand a Sword, with a crown over both, ..."
3. Poems by Josiah Dean Canning (1838)
"If one not overfast with haste Should ruminate it long, He 'd find, besides a
sickish taste, It savored something strong, I think, to-day. ..."
4. Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Jonah Barrington, Townsend Young (1871)
"tame, the horse I rode always had spirit enough, particularly for a gentleman
who was not very remarkable for sticking overfast to those animals. ..."
5. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1868)
"... and started as soon as Woodpecker and Old Peter had done kicking and biting.
They went off screwy at first, being groggy from overfast work : but as ..."
6. Fish by S. Beaty-Pownall (1903)
"(This is often due either to over long or overfast boiling, for, unless simmered
as advised above, fish is pretty sure to crack and break. ..."
7. Mooswa: & Others of the Boundaries by William Alexander Fraser (1900)
"I should like to set the lodge when it is finished," whined Beaver, " but my
short little fore-legs travel not overfast on land. ..."
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